Functional protection of dystrophic mouse (mdx) muscles after adenovirus-mediated transfer of a dystrophin minigene.

AUTOR(ES)

Deconinck, N

RESUMO

Fast skeletal muscles of mdx (X chromosome-linked muscular dystrophy) mice were injected after birth with a recombinant adenovirus containing a minidys- trophin gene, a 6.3-kbp cDNA coding for the N- and C-terminal ends of dystrophin. Adult muscles were challenged by forced lengthening during tetanic contractions. Stretch-induced mechanical and histological damages were much reduced in injected muscles, in direct proportion of the Miniber of fibers expressing minidystrophin. Damaged fibers were preferentially found among minidystrophin-negative regions. Minidystrostrophin confers an important functional and structural protection of limb muscles against high mechanical stress, even after a partial somatic gene transfer.

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