Sentences with phrase «without dystrophin»
Top row: skeletal muscle without dystrophin.
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Without enough dystrophin, muscle cells atrophy, wither, and die.
In people without the disease, the dystrophin protein helps strengthen and connect muscle fibers and cells.
In the current study, Dr. Rudnicki and his team discovered that muscle stem cells also express the dystrophin protein, and without this protein, they produce ten-fold fewer muscle precursor cells, which in - turn generate fewer functional muscle fibres.