Discovery May Revolutionize Therapy In Muscular Dystrophy And Other Skeletal Muscle Disorders

Researchers at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School are a step closer to treating, and perhaps preventing, muscle damage caused by disease and aging. In their study, published in the June issue of Journal of Biological Chemistry, the scientists have linked the newly discovered protein MG53 to a pathway that repairs human muscle tissue along with the proteins caveolin-3 (Cav3) and dysferlin.

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Filed under: Muscular Dystrophy on June 25th, 2009