First demonstration of muscle restoration in an animal model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
... "This new class of treatment has the potential to help a large number of patients with different genetic diseases that have the same t...New therapeutic insight into duchenne muscular dystrophy
... ... Dr. Spiegelman and colleagues found that a protein called PGC-1alph...New step toward treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy
This press release is also available in <A HREF="http://www.eurekalert.org/staticrel.php?view=uol0608...">French .......... Quebec City, June 8, 2006--The team led by Dr. Jacques P. Tremblay, a researcher with the Human Genetics Department at Quebec City's Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Qubec (CHUQ) and professor with Universit Laval's Faculty of Medicine, has taken an important step toward...Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy research focuses on early mechanisms
Blacksburg, Va. - A $1 million grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases of the National Institutes of Health will fund research at Virginia Tech to identify the cell-level mechanisms that start Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a progressive and fatal muscle weakness disease that occurs in approximately one in 3,500 males....... The research project will foc...