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SUBMITTER: Kogelman B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5877835 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kogelman Bauke B Khmelinskii Artem A Verhaart Ingrid I Vliet Laura van LV Bink Diewertje I DI Aartsma-Rus Annemieke A Putten Maaike van MV Weerd Louise van der LV
PloS one 20180330 3
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) affects besides muscle also the brain, resulting in memory and behavioral problems. The consequences of dystrophinopathy on gross macroscopic alterations are unclear. To elucidate the effect of full-length dystrophin expression on brain morphology, we used high-resolution post-mortem MRI in mouse models that either express 0% (mdx), 100% (BL10) or a low amount of full-length dystrophin (mdx-XistΔhs). While absence or low amounts of full-length dystrophin did not ...[more]