Brain Dystrophin in Duchenne Dystrophy
Abstract
To define the potential pathogenic role of dystrophin deficiency in the cognitive impairment characteristic of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), the protein in brain cortical synapses of an 8-year-old patient examined at autopsy and an age-matched control subject dying of myelogenous leukemia was analysed in the Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-9-10-1 | Journal eISSN: 2166-6482
Language: English
Page range: 73 - 73
Published on: Oct 1, 1995
Published by: Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
© 1995 J Gordon Millichap, published by Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers
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