Protein Can Overcome Muscular Dystrophy Defect

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Protein Can Overcome Muscular Dystrophy Defect

(HealthNewsDigest.com)...Working with mice with a type of muscular

dystrophy, HHMI researchers have found that they can restore normal muscle

function by expressing an enzyme that attaches sugar molecules to a protein

essential for proper muscle structure.

Research published in the June 6, 2004, issue of Nature Medicine and in the

June 3, 2004, issue of the journal Cell.

HHMI investigator: P. , Ph.D., University of Iowa Carver

College of Medicine

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