Muscular dystrophy, the facts / Alan E.H. Emery.

  • Alan Emery
Date:
[1994], ©1994
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Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Credit: Muscular dystrophy, the facts / Alan E.H. Emery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Contents 1. Introduction 1 2. What is muscular dystrophy? 3 The genes 3 The meaning of 'muscular dystrophy' 6 Muscle weakness 7 Types of muscle 8 Muscle structure 9 Cause of muscle weakness 11 Animal studies of dystrophy 12 Some unanswered questions 13 Summary 13 3. Confirming the diagnosis 14 Blood tests 15 Electromyography 17 Muscle biopsy 18 Other investigations 20 Summary 20 4. Different types of muscular dystrophy 21 Duchenne muscular dystrophy 23 Becker muscular dystrophy 27 Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy 28 Limb girdle muscular dystrophy 29 Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy 31 Distal muscular dystrophy 33 Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy 3 3 Congenital muscular dystrophies 34 Myotonic dystrophy 35 Other forms of dystrophy 3 7 Summary 37