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Nature Medicine  8, 1355 - 1356 (2002)
doi:10.1038/nm1202-1355

Sizing up muscular dystrophy

Peter S. Zammit & Terence A. Partridge

Muscle Cell Biology Group, Medical Research Council Clinical Sciences Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, London, UK

Correspondence should be addressed to Terence A. Partridge terence.partridge@csc.mrc.ac.uk
In Duchenne muscular dystrophy, functional muscle fibers enlarge to compensate for damaged fibers. A new treatment in a mouse model makes muscles even larger and ameliorates symptoms of the disease.

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Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Nature Encyclopaedia of Life Sciences

REVIEWS
Pharmacological strategies for muscular dystrophy
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery Review (01 May 2003)

RESEARCH
Functional improvement of dystrophic muscle by myostatin blockade
Nature Letters to Editor (28 Nov 2002)

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