Tuesday 15 April 2014

Age Matters in Regenerating Muscle in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

A team of scientists have published details of how a class of drugs called "HDACis" drive muscle-cell regeneration in the early stages of dystrophic muscles, but fail to work in late stages. The study was led by Pier Lorenzo Puri, M.D., associate professor at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham), in collaboration with Fondazione Santa Lucia in Rome, Italy. The findings are key to furthering clinical development of HDACis for Duchenne muscular ...

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