Cardiomyopathy of duchenne muscular dystrophy: Current understanding and future directions

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 8-19

  Spurney, Christopher F ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; ARGININE DERIVATIVE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; CARVEDILOL; DEFLAZACORT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DYSTROPHIN; ENALAPRIL; IDEBENONE; LOSARTAN; MICRODYSTROPHIN; MINI DYSTROPHIN; PERINDOPRIL; PHOSPHORIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHORODIAMIDATE MORPHOLINO OLIGOMER ARGININE RICH PEPTIDE CONJUGATE; POLOXAMER; PREDNISONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ADD ON THERAPY; BECKER MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; BONE MARROW; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CARDITIS; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; COXSACKIE VIRUS B; COXSACKIE VIRUS INFECTION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; EXON SKIPPING; EXON SKIPPING THERAPY; GENE DELETION; GENE THERAPY; HEART DILATATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART VENTRICLE DILATION; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; HUMAN PARVOVIRUS B19; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARVOVIRUS INFECTION; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SATELLITE CELL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, DUCHENNE;

EID: 79959297748     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.22097     Document Type: Review

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