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Problems and solutions in myoblast transfer therapy
1 Jan 2001
Abstract excerpt
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a severe X-linked neuromuscular disease that affects approximately 1/3500 live male births in every human population, and is caused by a mutation in the gene that encodes the muscle protein dystrophin. The characterization and cloning of the dystrophin gene in 1987 was a major breakthrough and it was considered that simple replacement of the dystrophin gene would ameliorate the...
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