Sentences with phrase «damaged dystrophin»
The study is the first to show that damaged dystrophin underlies both genetic and acquired cardiomyopathy, says Jeffrey A. Towbin, a cardiologist with the Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital in Houston.
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Manipulating proteins in the body to compensate for the lack of dystrophin is one of many strategies being investigated to halt or reverse the muscle damage caused by DMD.
This implies that the dystrophin breakdown damaged the cell membranes, says Knowlton; this weakening of cell membranes allows the virus to spread, but damages the heart, because it makes the cells less resilient and less able to contract efficiently.