Characterisation of dystrophin during development of human skeletal muscle

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Dystrophin, the 427 x 10(3) Mr product of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) gene, was studied in human foetal skeletal muscle from 9 to 26 weeks of gestation. Dystrophin could be detected from at least 9 weeks of gestation at the sarcolemmal membrane of most myotubes, though there was differential staining with antibodies raised to various regions of the protein. Dystrophin immunostaining increased and became...

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