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Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene expression in normal and diseased human muscle
M O Scott1, J E Sylvester, T Heiman-Patterson
1Neurology Department, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 19104.
Science (New York, N.Y.)
|March 18, 1988
Abstract:
A probe for the 5' end of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) gene was used to study expression of the gene in normal human muscle, myogenic cell cultures, and muscle from patients with DMD. Expression was found in RNA from normal fetal muscle, adult cardiac and skeletal muscle, and cultured muscle after myoblast fusion. In DMD muscle, expression of this portion of the gene was also revealed by in situ RNA hybridization, particularly in regenerating muscle fibers.