Sentences with phrase «make dystrophin»

People with DMD do not make dystrophin, a protein that helps keep the muscles intact.

DMD is a rare disease affecting primarily boys and is caused by defects in the gene that makes the dystrophin protein.

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Duchenne typically occurs through one mutation in a gene called dystrophin, which makes a protein with the same name.

Lack of dystrophin makes the muscle cell plasma membrane more vulnerable to injury.

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.

We have made the seminal finding that dystrophin regulates the establishment of PAR - mediated polarity in satellite cells.