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101. || DukeMedNews || Muscle-Targeted Gene Therapy Reverses Rare Muscular Dystrophy
target muscle may reverse the symptoms of a rare form of muscular dystrophy, MuscleTargeted Gene Therapy Reverses Rare muscular Dystrophy in Mice
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102. FamilyFun: Health Encyclopedia: Muscular Dystrophy
An excerpt on muscular dystrophy from the Disney Encyclopedia of Baby and Child Care.
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These is a relatively rare group of progressive, genetic diseases that gradually destroy muscle tissue. The most common childhood forms are Duchenne muscular dystrophy and Becker muscular dystrophy; both affect about one in every 3,000 male babies born. Less common forms of muscular dystrophy can affect both boys and girls. The muscular dystrophies are classified according to age at onset, rate of progression, heredity pattern and muscle groups affected. Symptoms vary with the type. The major forms of muscular dystrophy gradually weaken the muscles that control walking, manual dexterity and breathing. Other symptoms can include mental retardation and neurological and cardiac involvement. WHEN SHOULD I SUSPECT MY CHILD HAS MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY?
Notify your pediatrician if the child exhibits the following conditions, possibly indicating muscular dystrophy: WHAT CAUSES MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY?

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Introduction
Print Preview of Section Muscular Dystrophy , crippling disease characterized by gradual wasting of skeletal muscle. As the disease progresses, symptoms include increased weakness and loss of muscle mass and function. Eventually a person with muscular dystrophy needs to use a wheelchair to move around. Four clinical forms of the disease are recognized, based on pattern of inheritance, age when symptoms are first noted, and distribution of the muscles earliest involved. Microscopic abnormalities of skeletal muscle are found in each type. II
Forms and Symptoms
Print Preview of Section In the Duchenne form of the disease, symptoms usually are noted before age five. The muscles first affected are those of the pelvis and trunk, resulting in spinal deformity and a waddling gait. Wasting of almost all muscle groups may be advanced by the late teens. Death may result from respiratory weakness or from involvement of the heart muscle. Because inheritance of this form is by an X-linked recessive mechanism, virtually all patients are boys (

104. MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY
Facioscapulohumeral muscular Dystrophy or LandouzyDejerine Dystrophy. Limb-Girdlemuscular Dystrophy or Erb s muscular Dystrophy. Myotonic Dystrophy.
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105. Muscular Dystrophy
muscular dystrophy is a group of inherited diseases that are characterized byweakness and wasting away of muscle tissue.
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106. Resources And Links - The Paul And Sheila Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Center At
Resources and Links The Paul and Sheila Wellstone muscular Dystrophy Center atthe University of Minnesota.
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Research: Cooperative research centers (3) awarded funding in 2003 from the National Institutes of Health for study of the muscular dystrophies: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center , Joseph C. Gloriso, Ph.D.
University of Washington at Seattle , Jeffrey S. Chamberlain, Ph.D.
The University of Rochester, New York , Richard T. Moxley , II, M.D. Other prominent research centers: Penn State
University of Iowa , Kevin P. Campbell, Ph.D.
University of Utah Muscular Dystrophy Center Patient/Family Resources: Charcot-marie-tooth Society FacioScapuloHumeral Society ... Genetic Testing for Neurological Conditions Seattle web site with information on genetic testing for myotonic dystrophy, spinobellar ataxia and fascioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy Muscular Dystrophy Association National Ataxia Foundation National Institutes of Health - Road Map Parents Project ... Privacy The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer. Last modified on Tuesday Jul 20, 2004

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