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‘Fall Seven Times, Stand Up Eight’ - A review by Dr Karl Bettelheim

• Last Edited: 30 Jul 2010
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Article submitted by Dr Karl Bettelheim published on the 24th of June 2009 IntroductionWhile, I have always tried to bring good or hopeful or it least interesting developments, ...

Tags: dystrophin, Utrophin, myoblasts, X chromosome.

Blocking the myostatin signal with a dominant negative receptor improves the success of human myoblast transplantation in dystrophin mice.

• Last Edited: 4 Feb 2011
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Duchene muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a recessive disease caused by a dystrophin gene mutation. Myoblast transplantation permits to introduce the dystrophin gene in dystrophic muscle fibers. However...

Tags: gene mutation, myoblasts, Duchenne.