TY - CHAP AU - Samuel Alexandre Almeida Honório AU - Marco Batista AU - Jorge Santos AU - João Petrica AU - Helena Mesquita AU - João Serrano AU - Jaime Ribeiro AU - Júlio Martins ED - Kunihiro Sakuma Y1 - 2019-09-16 PY - 2019 T1 - Physical Exercise as a Tool to Delay the Development Process of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy N2 - Skeletal muscle is a highly plastic organ that is modulated by various pathways controlling protein turnover. Muscle loss is common in muscular dystrophy, in which marked loss of various proteins such as the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex occurs around muscle fibers. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the various muscular dystrophies, including characteristics, diagnosis, and classification. General treatment of drugs (e.g. corticosteroids) and physical therapy for muscular dystrophies are discussed. In addition, current applications for cell and tissue engineering using muscle stem cells or gene therapy are introduced. This book also deals with the recent advances in appropriate models of drug screening using cell cultures or mammalian organs in vitro in this field. BT - Muscular Dystrophies SP - Ch. 6 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.84453 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.84453 SN - 978-1-78923-846-4 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-28 ER -