Drug discovery for Duchenne muscular dystrophy via utrophin promoter activation screening.

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a devastating muscle wasting disease caused by mutations in dystrophin, a muscle cytoskeletal protein. Utrophin is a homologue of dystrophin that can functionally compensate for its absence when expressed at increased levels in the myofibre, as shown by studies i...

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Main Authors: Catherine Moorwood, Olga Lozynska, Neha Suri, Andrew D Napper, Scott L Diamond, Tejvir S Khurana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3197614?pdf=render