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 4 (2008), Issue 6 (June)

1. Characteristics and outcomes of cardiomyopathy in children with Duchenne or Becker muscular dystrophy: a comparative study from the Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Registry.
   Am Heart J, 155(6): 998-1005. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Solution structure of the inner DysF domain of myoferlin and implications for limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 2b.
   J Mol Biol, 379(5): 981-90. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. A novel SNaPshot assay to detect the mdx mutation.
   Muscle Nerve, 37(6): 731-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Calpain 3 is a modulator of the dysferlin protein complex in skeletal muscle.
   Hum Mol Genet, 17(12): 1855-66. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Follow-up of three patients with a large in-frame deletion of exons 45-55 in the Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) gene.
   J Clin Neurosci, 15(7): 757-63. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Real and expected delivery rates of patients with myotonic dystrophy undergoing intracytoplasmic sperm injection and preimplantation genetic diagnosis.
   Hum Reprod, 23(7): 1654-60. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Electrocardiographic abnormalities and sudden death in myotonic dystrophy type 1.
   N Engl J Med, 358(25): 2688-97. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Towards developing standard operating procedures for pre-clinical testing in the mdx mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
   Neurobiol Dis, 31(1): 1-19. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Hematopoietic cell transplantation provides an immune-tolerant platform for myoblast transplantation in dystrophic dogs.
   Mol Ther, 16(7): 1340-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Two different PABPN1 expanded alleles in a Mexican population with oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy arising from independent founder effects.
    Br J Ophthalmol, 92(7): 998-1002. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Predictors of disrupted social participation in myotonic dystrophy type 1.
    Arch Phys Med Rehabil, 89(7): 1246-55. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Sirtuin inhibition protects from the polyalanine muscular dystrophy protein PABPN1.
    Hum Mol Genet, 17(14): 2108-17. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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