Article
Invited review: myoblast transfer: a possible therapy for inherited myopathies?
Muscle & nerve - 1 Mar 1991
Partridge T A
Abstract excerpt
A potential therapeutic strategy for genetic diseases is to alter the genetic constitution of the affected tissues by means of grafts of normal precursor or stem cells. Over several years, evidence has accumulated to suggest that primary diseases of skeletal muscle, such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy, may be susceptible to this approach. This review makes a critical examination of such background evidence, and...
Topics
- Animals
- Dystrophin
- Graft Rejection
- Humans
- Muscles
- Muscular Dystrophies
- Muscular Dystrophy, Animal
- Phenotype