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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
neuroscience
Dystrophin-like immunoreactivity in monkey and human brain areas involved in learning and motor functions
Neuroscience Letters, Volume 141, No. 2, Year 1992
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Two antidystrophin antibodies against different fragments of dystrophin were used to detect this polypeptide in monkey and human brains. Dystrophin was revealed by immunoperoxidase amplified with the biotin/avidin system and by immunoblotting. A dystrophin-like immunoreactivity was uniformly expressed in several brain regions implicated in learning and motor functions. Dystrophin function is not clear but our results raise the possibility that this protein may be involved in the cognitive impairment observed in several Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) patients. © 1992.
Authors & Co-Authors
Huard, Johnny
Canada, Quebec
Université Laval
Bouchard, Jean Pierre
Canada, Quebec
Université Laval
Statistics
Citations: 26
Authors: 2
Affiliations: 1
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/0304-3940(92)90890-J
ISSN:
03043940
Research Areas
Disability