Article
Dystrophin-related protein in Becker muscular dystrophy.
Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) - 1 Jun 1994
Higuchi I, Niiyama T, Fukunaga H, Nakamura K, Nakagawa M, Osame M
Abstract excerpt
A benign Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) patient with a marked decrease in dystrophin exhibited remarkable expression of dystrophin-related protein (DRP) on most of the muscle cell membrane. A phenotypic Duchenne muscular dystrophy patient with a truncated form of dystrophin exhibited no DRP expr...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Antibodies, Monoclonal
- Cell Membrane
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 6
- Cytoskeletal Proteins
- Dystrophin
- Exons
- Humans
- Immunohistochemistry
- Male
- Membrane Proteins
- Muscle Fibers, Skeletal
- Muscular Dystrophies
- Phenotype
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Up-Regulation
- Utrophin
