The role of utrophin in the potential therapy of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is an X-linked recessive muscle wasting disease caused by the absence of the muscle cytoskeletal protein, dystrophin. Dystrophin is a member of the spectrin superfamily of proteins and is closely related in sequence similarity and functional motifs to three proteins that...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2002
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