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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Henry Kaminski
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-1463 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Neurogenetics 20060309 2
Dystrophin deficiency leads to the progressive muscle wasting disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Dystrophin-deficient mdx mice are characterized by skeletal muscle weakness and degeneration but they appear outwardly normal in contrast to DMD patients. Mice lacking both dystrophin and the dystrophin homolog utrophin [double knockout (dko)] have muscle degeneration similar to mdx mice, but they display clinical features similar to DMD patients. Dko limb muscles also lack postsynaptic membr ...[more]