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 5 (May)

1. Loss of caveolin-3 induced by the dystrophy-associated P104L mutation impairs L-type calcium channel function in mouse skeletal muscle cells.
   J Physiol, 580: 745-54. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Activation of MAPK pathways links LMNA mutations to cardiomyopathy in Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy.
   J Clin Invest, 117(5): 1282-93. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Myocardial delayed enhancement by magnetic resonance imaging in patients with muscular dystrophy.
   J Am Coll Cardiol, 49(18): 1874-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Severity, type, and distribution of myotonic discharges are different in type 1 and type 2 myotonic dystrophy.
   Muscle Nerve, 35(4): 479-85. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Quantitative proton MRS of cerebral metabolites in laminin alpha2 chain deficiency.
   Brain Dev, 29(6): 357-64. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Orthopedic outcomes of long-term daily corticosteroid treatment in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
   Neurology, 68(19): 1607-13. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Relationship between cardiac arrhythmias and sleep apnoea in permanently paced patients with type I myotonic dystrophy.
   Neuromuscul Disord, 17(5): 392-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Role of tumour necrosis factor alpha, but not of cyclo-oxygenase-2-derived eicosanoids, on functional and morphological indices of dystrophic progression in mdx mice: a pharmacological approach.
   Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol, 33(3): 344-59. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Red-green color vision impairment in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
   Am J Hum Genet, 80(6): 1064-75. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Mechanosensitive channel properties and membrane mechanics in mouse dystrophic myotubes.
    J Physiol, 581: 369-87. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Abnormal expression of mu-crystallin in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy.
    Exp Neurol, 205(2): 583-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Variability of the recessive oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy phenotype.
    Muscle Nerve, 35(5): 681-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Distal myopathy caused by homozygous missense mutations in the nebulin gene.
    Brain, 130: 1465-76. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Scapuloperoneal syndrome type Kaeser and a wide phenotypic spectrum of adult-onset, dominant myopathies are associated with the desmin mutation R350P.
    Brain, 130: 1485-96. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Zaspopathy in a large classic late-onset distal myopathy family.
    Brain, 130: 1477-84. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Multitissular involvement in a family with LMNA and EMD mutations: Role of digenic mechanism?
    Neurology, 68(22): 1883-94. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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