Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine

, Volume 138, Issue 10, pp 425–428 | Cite as

Hereditary muscular dystrophy in MDX mice as a homologous model for introduction of cell technologies in the treatment of progressive muscular dystrophies in humans

  • M. A. Stenina
  • V. I. Savchuk
  • V. F. Sitnikov
  • L. I. Krivov
  • A. B. Kuznetsov
  • D. A. Voevodin
  • V. N. Yarygin
  • G. T. Sukhikh
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Abstract

Life-time monitoring of the main clinical and laboratory manifestations of hereditary muscular dystrophy in mdx mice confirmed the presence of mutation in exon 23 of dystrophin gene and the absence of this protein in skeletal muscles of mutant animals. Muscular dystrophy in mice was similar to human progressive muscle disorder, which allows the use of this model for the development of cell technologies for the treatment of hereditary muscular diseases in humans.

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mdx mice progressive muscular dystrophy model 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • M. A. Stenina
    • 1
  • V. I. Savchuk
    • 1
  • V. F. Sitnikov
    • 1
  • L. I. Krivov
    • 1
  • A. B. Kuznetsov
    • 1
  • D. A. Voevodin
    • 1
  • V. N. Yarygin
    • 1
  • G. T. Sukhikh
    • 1
  1. 1.Russian State Medical University;Institute of Biological MedicineMoscow

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