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2 unusual facts about muscular dystrophy


Muscular dystrophy

The first is the deletion of D4Z4 repeats and the second is a "toxic gain of function" of the DUX4 gene.

On December 18, 2001, the MD CARE Act was signed into law and amends the Public Health Service Act to provide research for the various muscular dystrophies.


Barbara Jane Harrison

Almost £1,500 was raised which was used to buy a computer for the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, for use by the muscular dystrophy laboratories for research into the disease.

Chuck Zink

Zink worked with Jerry Lewis as the local representative for many of the Muscular Dystrophy Association Labor Day Telethons, not only as the local host for 24 years of the marathon through 2005, but by including children with muscular dystrophy on his children's show.

Ladri di Carrozzelle

Ladri di Carrozzelle ("Wheelchair Thieves" as the name is a play on the film Bicycle Thieves) is an Italian Pop rock group that formed due to a summer event in 1989 for the Union for the Fight Against Muscular Dystrophy.


see also

Ataluren

Biostrophin, another drug against Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Duchenne

Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a severe recessive X-chromosome linked form of muscular dystrophy

Heat of the Moment

In a 2001 episode of South Park titled "Kenny Dies", Eric Cartman sings the song to the United States Congress to convince them to reverse a ban on stem cell research (telling them that he wanted to save his 8-year-old friend Kenny McCormick from muscular dystrophy), eventually leading members of Congress in a sing-along.