Tackling ischemia to treat DMD
In a recent publication Nelson et al proposed to use PDE5 inhibitors to treat DMD. Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a fatal progressive disease that affects… Read more »
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- Tackling ischemia to treat DMD - 1st July 2014
- Targeting skeletal muscle to treat SBMA - 12th May 2014
- Forever young muscle. - 10th March 2014
Targeting skeletal muscle to treat SBMA
Two recent reports by Cortes et al. and Lieberman et al. reveal a novel role of skeletal muscle on SBMA pathology and opens new avenues for alternative… Read more »
Forever young muscle.
Under normal conditions skeletal muscle satellite cells (muSCs) are in a quiescent state, but when stimulated by damage, they re-enter the cell cycle to… Read more »
Closing the calcium gates to treat stress induced arrhythmias.
Much of what we know about the cardiac Ryanodine receptor (RyR2) relates to its role in excitation-contraction (EC) coupling. During this process, cell membrane… Read more »