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 3 (2007), Issue 1 (January)

1. Endurance training: an effective and safe treatment for patients with LGMD2I.
   Neurology, 68(1): 59-61. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Nitric oxide release combined with nonsteroidal antiinflammatory activity prevents muscular dystrophy pathology and enhances stem cell therapy.
   Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 104(1): 264-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Screening of calpain-3 autolytic activity in LGMD muscle: a functional map of CAPN3 gene mutations.
   J Med Genet, 44(1): 38-43. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. MRI for the demonstration of subclinical muscle involvement in muscular dystrophy.
   Clin Radiol, 62(2): 160-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Orofacial dysfunction in children and adolescents with myotonic dystrophy.
   Dev Med Child Neurol, 49(1): 18-22. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Kinetics of FcRn-mediated recycling of IgG and albumin in human: pathophysiology and therapeutic implications using a simplified mechanism-based model.
   Clin Immunol, 122(2): 146-55. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. A novel autosomal recessive limb-girdle muscular dystrophy with quadriceps atrophy maps to 11p13-p12.
   Brain, 130: 368-80. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Deletion of exon 16 of the dystrophin gene is not associated with disease.
   Hum Mutat, 28(2): 205. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Multiexon skipping leading to an artificial DMD protein lacking amino acids from exons 45 through 55 could rescue up to 63% of patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
   Hum Mutat, 28(2): 196-202. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Protein- and mRNA-based phenotype-genotype correlations in DMD/BMD with point mutations and molecular basis for BMD with nonsense and frameshift mutations in the DMD gene.
    Hum Mutat, 28(2): 183-95. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Belated diagnosis of congenital myotonic dystrophy in a boy with cerebral palsy.
    Am J Phys Med Rehabil, 86(2): 161-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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