Muscular Dystrophy
Muscular dystrophies (MDs) are a group of disorders that share three characteristics: They are inherited, they cause progressive weakness and muscle wasting, and the primary defect ...
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Muscular Dystrophy
Definition
Muscular dystrophy (MD) is the name for a group of disorders in which muscle size and strength gradually decrease over time. Nine different forms of the disorder have bee...
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Muscular Dystrophies
Muscular dystrophies (dystrophinopathies) are progressive hereditary degenerative diseases of skeletal muscles due to an absence or deficiency of the protein dystrophin. Dystrophi...
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Dystrophinopathies
Dystrophinopathies are progressive hereditary degenerative diseases (often called muscular dystrophies) of skeletal muscles due to an absence or deficiency of the protein dystrophin...
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Muscular Dystrophy
The term muscular dystrophy refers to any condition in which healthy muscle cells die and are replaced by fat and connective tissue. The result of this change is a weakening and was...
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Muscular Dystrophy
The term muscular dystrophy refers to any condition in which healthy muscle cells die and are replaced by fat and connective tissue. The result of this change is a weakening and was...
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Muscular Dystrophy
A category of inherited, incurable, and often life-threatening diseases in which the limb and trunk muscles deteriorate.
The major types of muscular dystrophy (MD) are Duchenne, lim...
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Cancer cells do not respond normally to the body's control mechanism in that they divide abnormally without control, expanding to other tissues, and thus could lead to the death of the organism. Canc...
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The neuromuscular disease called Muscular dystrophy affects quite a lot of people. This disease is an inherited disorder resulting in progressive weakness or atrophy to the muscles. About one out of s...
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