The membrane organization of the erythrocytes from patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy was studied by means of electron spin resonance. The fluidity of the membrane near the polar region of Duchenne muscular dystrophy erythrocytes was similar to that of normal erythrocytes. The membrane environment in the nonpolar region, however, was quite different from that of normal erythrocytes, judg...

BACKGROUND The effect on subsequent respiratory function of spinal stabilisation for scoliosis in Duchenne muscular dystrophy is unclear. In order to clarify this clinical problem, changes in the forced vital capacity of a group of children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy who had undergone spinal surgery were measured and compared with a group of children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy who h...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy is the most frequent lethal genetic disease. Several clinical trials have established both the beneficial effect of steroids in Duchenne muscular dystrophy and the well-known risk of side effects associated with their daily use. For many years it has been known that steroids associated with ambulation loss lead to obesity and also damage the bone structure resulting ...

A recommendation of: François Duchenne, Emmanuelle Porcher, Jean-Baptiste Mihoub, Grégoire Loïs, Colin Fontaine Controversy over the decline of arthropods: a matter temporal baseline? https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.09.479422

Muscle blood flow (MBF) was measured using the local (133)Xenon injection method in patients with Duchenne type muscular dystrophy (six), limb-girdle dystrophy (four), polymyositis (seven), and in normal controls (11). Measurements were made at rest and during hyperaemia induced by ischaemic exercise and by histamine injection. Capillary diffusion capacity was measured with the (51)Cr-EDTA meth...

Laughter facilitates the adaptive response to stress by increasing the psychological distance from distress and by enhancing social relations. To test these hypotheses, the authors related measures of bereaved adults' laughter and smiling 6 months postloss to measures of their (a) subjective emotion and dissociation from distress, (b) social relations, and (c) responses they evoked in others. D...

Duchenne and non-Duchenne type of smiles were studied in infants with and without Down syndrome while they looked at their mother’s face or at objects. In infants with Down syndrome the Duchenne smile with open mouth was the most frequent, regardless of the direction of their gaze. The study of different type of smiles may be related to sociocognitive development in children with Down syndrome....

duchenne muscular dystrophy (dmd) and the milder allelic becker muscular dystrophy (bmd) are x-linked disorders. both dmd & bmd result from heterogenous mutation in the dystrophin gene and in about 65% of the cases one or more exons of the gene are deleted or duplicated. one third of cases arise from new mutation and the rest are familial. to analyze the prevalence of deletion in iranian patien...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a severe inherited muscle disease that affects 1 in 3500 boys worldwide. Infiltration of skeletal muscle by inflammatory cells is an important facet of disease pathophysiology and is strongly associated with disease severity in the individual patient. In the chronic inflammation that characterizes Duchenne muscle, cytokines and chemokines are considered essential ...

The aim of this collaborative study on Duchenne muscular dystrophy and Becker muscular dystrophy is to determine the prevalence and to develop data on such patients as a prelude to the development of registry in Hong Kong. Information on clinical and molecular findings, and patient care, was systematically collected in 2011 and 2012 from all Pediatric Neurology Units in Hong Kong. Ninety patien...