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[Gene therapy for muscular dystrophy].
No to hattatsu = Brain and development - 1 Mar 2004
Takeda Shin'ichi
Abstract excerpt
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an X-linked, lethal muscle disorder caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene. Although an adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector-mediated gene transfer provides an attractive approach to the treatment of DMD, limitation in insertion size up to 4.9 kb excludes incorporation of a full-length dystrophin cDNA (14 kb) into an AAV vector. We previously generated micro-dystrophin...
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