Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Calcium Handling in Maturing Skeletal Muscle From Two Models of Dystrophic Mice

<p>Duchenne's muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a debilitating disease that affects approximately 1 in 3500 boys, with many DMD patients dying before the age of 20 due to cardio-respiratory complications. DMD is the result of defects in the gene that encodes dystrophin, an integral muscle membr...

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Main Author: Rittler, Matthew Robert
Other Authors: Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35619
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-11072002-115048/