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Muscular Dystrophy

Known as: Dystrophies, Muscular, Muscular dystrophy NOS, Dystrophy, Muscular 
A group of inherited progressive muscle disorders characterized by muscle weakness and eventual death of the muscle tissues. Examples include… 
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Hereditary DiseasesMetabolic DiseasesMusculoskeletal DiseasesMyopathy

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Review
2004
Review
2004
Limb‐girdle muscular dystrophies – from genetics to molecular pathology
The limb‐girdle muscular dystrophies are a diverse group of muscle‐wasting disorders characteristically affecting the large… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Distribution of ten laminin chains in dystrophic and regenerating muscles
Review
1998
Review
1998
ICE, neuronal apoptosis and neurodegeneration
Significant progress has recently occurred in the understanding of the molecular mechanisms mediating vertebrate programmed cell… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Normal and dystrophin-deficient muscle fibers in carriers of the gene for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Dystrophin is the gene product that is affected in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Antibodies against dystrophin were used to… 
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Selenium: a case for its essentiality in man.
About 45 essential nutrients are needed for health maintenance, and among them are some 15 minerals or metals.1 Many of these… 
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Freeze-fracture studies of muscle caveolae in human muscular dystrophy.
Freeze-fracture studies of caveolar density and distribution were carried out in skeletal muscle plasma membrane from 6 patients… 
Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
Abnormalities of peripheral nerves in murine muscular dystrophy.
Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
Protein kinase activity in erythrocyte ghosts of patients with myotonic muscular dystrophy.
Myotonic muscular dystrophy is a disorder of humans that involves many organ systems. Physiological studies have suggested that… 
Highly Cited
1970
Highly Cited
1970
Experimental myopathy after microarterial embolization; comparison with childhood x-linked pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy.
THE ETIOLOGY and pathogenesis of childhood x-linked pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy ("Duchenne dystrophy") remains obscure… 
Highly Cited
1960
Highly Cited
1960
Histopathology of hereditary, progressive muscular dystrophy in inbred strain 129 mice
A stock of mice segregating for animals suffering from a form of hereditary, progressive muscular dystrophy has been established… 
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