Muscle Gene Therapy

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Duan, Dongsheng (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human genetics.; Immunology.; Virology.; Developmental biology.; Biomedicine.; Human Genetics.; Developmental Biology.

Muscle disease represents an important health threat to the general population. For thousands of years, a cure has been deemed extremely remote, if not impossible, for many relentless muscle diseases such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The cloning of muscle disease genes and the prospect of introdu...