Open access peer-reviewed Edited Volume

Muscular Dystrophy

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Academic Editor

Madhuri Hegde
Madhuri Hegde

Emory University,
United States of America

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Arunkanth Ankala
Arunkanth Ankala

Emory University,
United States of America

Published09 May 2012

Doi10.5772/1242

ISBN978-953-51-0603-6

eBook (PDF) ISBN978-953-51-6994-9

Copyright year2012

Number of pages556

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Table of Contents

Open access  chapters

1. Alpha-Dystroglycanopathy

By Mieko Yoshioka

3,470
2. Nuclear Poly (A)-Binding Protein and Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy

By Jnanankur Bag, Quishan Wang and Rumpa Biswas Bhattacharjee

2,083
4,629
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4. Possible Diverse Roles of Fukutin: More Than Basement Membrane Formation?

By Tomoko Yamamoto, Atsuko Hiroi, Yoichiro Kato, Noriyuki Shibata, Makiko Osawa and Makio Kobayashi

2,054
1
5. Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and Brain Function

By J.L. Anderson, S.I. Head and J.W. Morley

3,038
2
1,521
2,913
10. Altered Gene Expression Pathways in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

By Nevenka Juretić, Francisco Altamirano, Denisse Valladares and Enrique Jaimovich

2,496
11. Effects of Dietary Phosphate on Ectopic Calcification and Muscle Function in mdx Mice

By Eiji Wada, Namiko Kikkawa, Mizuko Yoshida, Munehiro Date, Tetsuo Higashi and Ryoichi Matsuda

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12. Rehabilitation in Muscular Dystrophies: Changing Approach

By Imelda J.M. de Groot, Nicoline B.M. Voet, Merel Jansen and Lenie van den Engel-Hoek

8,407
1,841
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14. Diagnosis of the Muscular Dystrophies

By Leigh B. Waddell, Frances J. Evesson, Kathryn N. North, Sandra T. Cooper and Nigel F. Clarke

4,734
15. Advances in Molecular Analysis of Muscular Dystrophies

By Arunkanth Ankala and Madhuri R. Hegde

2,606
16. Motor Function Measure Scale (MFM): New Instrument for Follow-Up Brazilian Patients with Neuromuscular Disease

By Cristina Iwabe, Anamarli Nucci, Beatriz Helena Miranda Pfeilsticker and Luis Alberto Magna

2,918
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18. Muscle Satellite Cells and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

By Yuko Miyagoe-Suzuki, So-ichiro Fukada and Shin'ichi Takeda

4,048
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22. Genetic Therapy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: Principles and Progress

By Taeyoung Koo, Linda Popplewell, Alberto Malerba and George Dickson

3,377
25. Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1: Focus on the RNA Pathology and Therapy

By Nikolaos P. Mastroyiannopoulos, Andrie Koutsoulidou and Leonidas A. Phylactou

2,238
26. Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: Experimental models on Physical Therapy

By Thais Gaiad, Karla Araujo, Fátima Caromano and Carlos Eduardo Ambrosio

2,636
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