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Muscular dystrophy begins early in embryonic development deriving from stem cell loss and disrupted skeletal muscle formation.
Disease models & mechanisms - 1 Jan 2009
Merrick Deborah, Stadler Lukas Kurt Josef, Larner Dean, Smith Janet
Abstract excerpt
Examination of embryonic myogenesis of two distinct, but functionally related, skeletal muscle dystrophy mutants (mdx and cav-3(-/-)) establishes for the first time that key elements of the pathology of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 1C (LGMD-1c) originate in the disruption of the embryonic cardiac and skeletal muscle patterning processes. Disruption of myogenesis occurs...
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