Whole body periodic acceleration is an effective therapy to ameliorate muscular dystrophy in mdx mice.

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a genetic disorder caused by the absence of dystrophin in both skeletal and cardiac muscles. This leads to severe muscle degeneration, and dilated cardiomyopathy that produces patient death, which in most cases occurs before the end of the second decade. Several...

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Main Authors: Francisco Altamirano, Claudio F Perez, Min Liu, Jeffrey Widrick, Elisabeth R Barton, Paul D Allen, Jose A Adams, Jose R Lopez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4152333?pdf=render