Muscular Dystrophy

One of the serious hereditary disorders that have been like a nightmare for some parents, when affecting their child, is the muscular dystrophy disorder. Various medical fields are going to be dealing mainly with genes and hereditary disorders, muscular dystrophy being one of them, as they are becoming the most common medical problems. In this essay, muscular dystrophy will be described as well as some of the many groups associated with it. Muscular dystrophy is …

…done with stem cells, antibiotics and gene therapies that offer new hope for sufferers of DMD. Many of these studies have been done on mdx mice, an animal model for DMD that possesses the same genetic defect as humans who suffer with the disease (Agrawal et al., 1999). These studies offer a new ray of hope, not only for those suffering with DMD, but also for people who suffer from various types of muscular degenerative diseases.