δ-Sarcoglycan-deficient muscular dystrophy: from discovery to therapeutic approaches
Mutations in the δ-sarcoglycan gene cause limb-girdle muscular dystrophy 2F (LGMD2F), an autosomal recessive disease that causes progressive weakness and wasting of the proximal limb muscles and often has cardiac involvement.
Blain Alison M, Straub Volker W
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Medium to long-term outcome of thoracoscapular arthrodesis with screw fixation for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy [PDF]
Background: Shoulder girdle muscle weakness is the most constant feature of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy and leads to scapular winging. Mechanical fixation of the scapula to the thoracic wall provides a stable fulcrum on which the deltoid ...
Atoun, Ehud +5 more
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Rehabilitation Challenges in Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophies [PDF]
Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) is a burdensome progressive neuromuscular disease, with a great impact upon quality of life. Unlike other types of neuromuscular dystrophies, which have onset in early childhood and severely limit the life expectancy,
TROFIN Dan +4 more
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Lower Limb Radiology of Distal Myopathy due to the S60F Myotilin Mutation [PDF]
Distal myopathies are a clinically and genetically heterogenous group of disorders in which the distal limb musculature is selectively or disproportionately affected.
Birchall, Daniel +8 more
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YAC contigs of the Rab1 and wobbler (wr) spinal muscular atrophy gene region on proximal mouse chromosome 11 and of the homologous region on human chromosome 2p [PDF]
powerful tool to advance the identi®cation of gene com-Despite rapid progress in the physical characteriza- plexes and of disease genes. In this respect, the analysis tion of murine and human genomes, little molecular in- of human chromosomes 16 and 19 ...
Baer, K +6 more
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The analysis of the clinical and tool parameters characterizing a cardiomyopathyat various forms of the progressing muscular dystrophies [PDF]
Purpose: studying of clinical and tool characteristics of cardiomyopathies at various forms of the progressing muscular dystrophies. Material and methods. There had been 103 patients with hereditary forms of the progressing muscular dystrophies examined,
Poverennova I.E. +2 more
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Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying muscular dystrophy [PDF]
The muscular dystrophies are a group of heterogeneous genetic diseases characterized by progressive degeneration and weakness of skeletal muscle. Since the discovery of the first muscular dystrophy gene encoding dystrophin, a large number of genes have ...
Kunkel, Louis M., Rahimov, Fedik
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Limb‐girdle muscular dystrophy‐type 2C (LGMD2C) is caused by mutations in the SGCG gene. Here, we report a case of a 26‐year‐old male who had inactive walking due to proximal muscle weakness.
Nam‐Chung Tran +9 more
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Background: Laminopathies are caused by rare alterations in LMNA, leading to a wide clinical spectrum. Though muscular dystrophy begins at early ages, disease progression is different in each patient. We investigated variability in laminopathy phenotypes
Sergi Cesar +68 more
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Major Histocompatibility Complex I and II Expression and Lymphocytic Subtypes in Muscle of Horses with Immune-Mediated Myositis. [PDF]
BackgroundMajor histocompatibility complex (MHC) I and II expression is not normally detected on sarcolemma, but is detected with lymphocytic infiltrates in immune-mediated myositis (IMM) of humans and dogs and in dysferlin-deficient muscular dystrophy ...
Barnes, N +6 more
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