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Developmental expression of myotonic dystrophy protein kinase in brain and its relevance to clinical phenotype.
Acta neuropathologica - 1 Nov 2000
Endo A, Motonaga K, Arahata K, Harada K, Yamada T, Takashima S
Abstract excerpt
To investigate the pathophysiologic role of myotonic dystrophy protein kinase (DMPK) in the brain in myotonic dystrophy (MD), the developmental characteristics of DMPK immunoreactivity in the central nervous system and its alteration with disease were studied. Eleven patients' brain with MD (5 congenital form, 6 adult form) were examined by immunohistochemistry using a specific antibody against synthetic DMPK...
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