http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The dystrophin protein offers critical support to muscle fibers. Mutations affecting dystrophin's expression cause the muscle-wasting disease muscular dystrophy. In Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), these mutations take the form of small sequence changes that make much of the dystrophin gene (DMD) untranslatable, yielding nonfunctional protein or no protein at all. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-guidelines-therapies-muscular-dystrophy-diseases.html Genetics Wed, 30 Jan 2013 07:00:01 EST news278749682 Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute researchers have found that an experimental compound may help stem the debilitating effects of muscular dystrophy by restoring normal blood flow to muscles affected by the genetic disorder. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-preclinical-muscular-dystrophy.html Medical research Thu, 08 Nov 2012 10:06:22 EST news271591571 (Medical Xpress) -- A team led by scientists at UCL, funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and AVI BioPharma, have made an important breakthrough in the development of a treatment for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-treatment-success-duchenne-muscular-dystrophy.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:25:35 EST news230804709