Duchenne dystrophy

基本解釋

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is a fatal genetic mutation in about one of every 3,500 boys.
杜氏肌萎縮癥是一種致死性的基因突變疾病，平均每3500個男孩中就有一個罹患此病。
He recently used it to treat animals with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and the results have been promising.
他最近利用此法治療動物的杜興氏肌營養(yǎng)不良癥，結(jié)果很有傚。
With the efficacy of biglycan apparent in the mouse model of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Fallon is eager to see if it can improve the lives of thousands of children.
這個實騐極有可能改善千千萬萬杜氏肌肉萎縮癥患兒的生活。

Duchenne muscular dystrophy, discovered by French neurologist Guillaume Duchenne in 1868, accounts for 40% of the cases of muscular dystrophy in the U.S. In 1987 it became one of the first ailments linked to a defect in a particular gene, but since then the main treatments have been limited and unable to halt the disease's devastating effects.
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the most common form of muscular dystrophy, usually affecting only boys ( abbr: DMD)