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Idebenone

• Last Edited: 26 Aug 2009
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Santhera Pharmaceuticals Holding AG (SWF:SANN) Publication In European Heart Journal Highlights Potential Of Santhera’s SNT-MC17/idebenone In Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Tuesday, September 3...

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Duchenne Information

• Last Edited: 26 Jul 2009
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The muscular dystrophies are an inherited group of progressive myopathic disorders resulting from defects in a number of genes required for normal muscle function 1 . The Duchenne and Becker muscu...

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Viagra, a possible treatment

• Last Edited: 26 Aug 2009
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VIAGRA is usually prescribed to treat erectile dysfunction (ED), but there might be a new use for ViagraPatients of duchenne muscular dystrophy will experience heart problems at about age 10 and t...

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Cardiac management - looking after the heart

• Last Edited: 16 Aug 2010
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The aim of cardiac management in DMD is early detection and treatment of the deterioration of heart muscle function (usually cardiomyopathy – involvement of heart muscle, or rhythm problems ...

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Slidenafill reverses cardiac dysfunction in the mdx mouse of duchenne muscular dystrophy

• Last Edited: 1 Dec 2010
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Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a progressive and fatal genetic disorder of muscle degeneration. Patients with DMD lack expression of the protein dystrophin as a result of mutuations in the X...

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Voluntary exercise induces structural remodeling in the hearts of dystrophin-deficient mice

• Last Edited: 25 Feb 2011
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In this exploratory study, we test the hypothesis that voluntary exercise affects the progression of dystrophic changes in the left ventricle of the heart. Wild-type (C57BL/10ScSn) and dystrophin-...

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