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The muscular dystrophies: from genes to therapies.

Wasting away.

Platelet adhesion: structural and functional diversity of short dystrophin and utrophins in the formation of dystrophin-associated-protein complexes related to actin dynamics.

Dystrophin-glycoproteins associated in congenital muscular dystrophy: immunohistochemical analysis of 59 Brazilian cases.

Laminin-alpha1 globular domains 3 and 4 induce heterotrimeric G protein binding to alpha-syntrophin's PDZ domain and alter intracellular Ca2+ in muscle.

Cardiac syntrophin isoforms: species-dependent expression, association with dystrophin complex and subcellular localization.

Aquaporins and the central nervous system.

Expression of a NOS transgene in dystrophin-deficient muscle reduces muscle membrane damage without increasing the expression of membrane-associated cytoskeletal proteins.

Mycobacterium leprae-induced demyelination: a model for early nerve degeneration.