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Creatine Supplement May Help People With Muscular Dystrophies
January 30, 2007 — Creatine, a popular nutritional supplement used by weightlifters and sprinters to improve athletic performance, could lend muscle strength to people with muscular dystrophies. Muscle strength ... > full story -
Common Blood Pressure Drug Treats Muscular Dystrophy In Mice
January 21, 2007 — Researchers at Johns Hopkins have shown that a drug commonly used to lower blood pressure reverses muscle wasting in genetically engineered mice with Marfan syndrome and also prevents muscle ... > full story -
A Giant Among Minnows: Giant Danio Can Keep Growing
November 28, 2006 — Two fish that share much in common genetically appear to have markedly different abilities to grow, a finding that could provide a new way to research such disparate areas as muscle wasting disease ... > full story -
Scientists Show Drug Can Counteract Muscular Dystrophy In Mice
October 4, 2006 — Scientists at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases and other institutions have demonstrated for the first time that a single drug can rebuild damaged muscle in ... > full story -
Experimental Cancer Drugs Counter Muscle Deterioration Seen In Muscular Dystrophy
September 17, 2006 — Muscle weakness and fiber deterioration seen in muscular dystrophy can be countered by a class of drugs currently under study for their effects against cancer, a Burnham Institute study has ... > full story -
Researchers Develop Mouse Model For Poorly Understood Human Myopathy
September 5, 2006 — Researchers from the University of Minnesota have identified the importance of a gene critical to normal muscle function, resulting in a new mouse model for a poorly understood muscle disease in ... > full story -
Muscle Cells Self-Destruct Rather Than Grow With Use
August 30, 2006 — Muscle cells that should grow stronger with use instead self-destruct when a protein called BAG3 isn't around, researchers have ... > full story -
Toxic Molecule May Cause Most Common Type Of Muscular Dystrophy
August 24, 2006 — Doctors at the University of Virginia Health System have shown for the first time that getting rid of poisonous RNA (ribonucleic acid) in muscle cells can reverse myotonic dystrophy, the most common ... > full story -
Scientists Reverse Muscle Contractions In Mouse Model Of Muscular Dystrophy
July 17, 2006 — University of Florida scientists have used gene therapy to eliminate disabling muscle contractions in a mouse model of the most common form of adult-onset muscular ... > full story -
New Step Toward Treatment For Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
June 9, 2006 — Researchers in Quebec, Canada, have taken an important step toward a cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. After performing the first successful muscle cell transplant in young patients two years ... > full story
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