DMD Study Shows Protein Utrophin Reduces Mitochondria Damage

DMD Study Shows Protein Utrophin Reduces Mitochondria Damage: "In recent years scientists have learned that the protein utrophin can substitute for the dystrophin protein that is missing in muscular dystrophy.

Researchers have now discovered that utrophin can reduce damage to energy-producing cell components known as mitochondria, whose deterioration is linked to MD. The reduction in damage improved the muscle health of mice with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Summit Therapeutics and collaborators from the University of Oxford presented the findings at the 15th Action Duchenne International Conference 2017 in Birmingham, England, Nov. 10-12."



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