Science news articles about 'muscular dystrophy research'

... of researchers has recently shown that the administration of sildenafil protects the heart in mice with Duchenne muscular dystrophy ... cause of death among patients with muscular dystrophy. “Research on this disease used to focus on the degeneration of skeletal ...

... being tested in people with cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy. Researchers emphasized that the clinical implications of their findings ... fibrosis, and the dystrophin protein in models of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Based on those results, several years ...

... similarity between heart disease and Duchenne muscular dystrophy, researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have discovered that a new class of experimental drugs ...

... differences in one of the genes responsible for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Researchers writing in the open access ... led a team of researchers from King's College London, UK, and was funded by the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign ...

... hurdle to the use of adult stem cells for treating muscular dystrophy and other muscle-wasting disorders that accompany ... advance therapies for conditions like muscular dystrophy. "Researchers really had no way to grow ...

... , settles a longstanding question about the roots of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy or FSHD. The work is published in the August ... built on its history as a powerhouse of leading muscular dystrophy research and treatment worldwide; Rochester's studies ...

... findings and technological developments into novel treatments for the muscular dystrophies. The grant designates Nationwide Children's Hospital as a Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Center, one of three national ...

An international team of researchers has made a second critical advance in determining the cause of a common form of muscular dystrophy known as facioscapulohumeral dystrophy, or FSHD.