Muscular Dystrophy Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Muscular Dystrophy, including details on duchenne muscular dystrophy, symptoms, treatment.

Volume 1 (2005), Issue 3 (March)

1. Haplotype analysis of the DM1 locus in the Serbian population.
   Acta Neurol Scand, 111(4): 274-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. MLPA analysis for the detection of deletions, duplications and complex rearrangements in the dystrophin gene: potential and pitfalls.
   Neurogenetics, 6(1): 29-35. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Evolution of gastric electrical features and gastric emptying in children with Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy.
   Am J Gastroenterol, 100(3): 695-702. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Myotonic dystrophy associated expanded CUG repeat muscleblind positive ribonuclear foci are not toxic to Drosophila.
   Hum Mol Genet, 14(6): 873-83. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Epsilon-sarcoglycan compensates for lack of alpha-sarcoglycan in a mouse model of limb-girdle muscular dystrophy.
   Hum Mol Genet, 14(6): 775-83. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. The utrophin promoter A drives high expression of the transgenic LacZ gene in liver, testis, colon, submandibular gland, and small intestine.
   J Gene Med, 7(2): 237-48. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. PABPN1 overexpression leads to upregulation of genes encoding nuclear proteins that are sequestered in oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy nuclear inclusions.
   Neurobiol Dis, 18(3): 551-67. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Neuromuscular rehabilitation and electrodiagnosis. 4. Pediatric issues.
   Arch Phys Med Rehabil, 86(3): S28-32. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Effect of perindopril on the onset and progression of left ventricular dysfunction in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
   J Am Coll Cardiol, 45(6): 855-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Increased levels of adenine nucleotide translocator 1 protein and response to oxidative stress are early events in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy muscle.
    J Mol Med, 83(3): 216-24. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Myocytes from congenital myotonic dystrophy display abnormal Na+ channel activities.
    Muscle Nerve, 31(4): 506-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Improved molecular diagnosis of dystrophinopathies in an unselected clinical cohort.
    Am J Med Genet A, 134(3): 295-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. LGMD2A: genotype-phenotype correlations based on a large mutational survey on the calpain 3 gene.
    Brain, 128: 732-42. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Tumour necrosis factor-mediated cell death pathways do not contribute to muscle fibre death in dystrophinopathies.
    Acta Neuropathol (Berl), 109(2): 217-25. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. The genes encoding for D4Z4 binding proteins HMGB2, YY1, NCL, and MYOD1 are excluded as candidate genes for FSHD1B.
    Neuromuscul Disord, 15(4): 316-20. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Muscle MRI in Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy and Bethlem myopathy.
    Neuromuscul Disord, 15(4): 303-10. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Temperament and character in patients with classical myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM-1).
    Neuromuscul Disord, 15(4): 287-92. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. An autosomal recessive limb girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD2) with mild mental retardation is allelic to Walker-Warburg syndrome (WWS) caused by a mutation in the POMT1 gene.
    Neuromuscul Disord, 15(4): 271-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Commonality of TRIM32 mutation in causing sarcotubular myopathy and LGMD2H.
    Ann Neurol, 57(4): 591-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Disruption of the mouse Large gene in the enr and myd mutants results in nerve, muscle, and neuromuscular junction defects.
    Mol Cell Neurosci, 28(4): 757-69. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Congenital muscular dystrophy with merosin deficiency: 1H MR spectroscopy and diffusion-weighted MR imaging.
    Radiology, 235(1): 190-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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