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Dystrophin immunostaining of muscle from Chinese patients with various neuromuscular diseases.

Abstract
The localization of dystrophin was studied using the immunohistochemical method of diagnostic muscle specimens from 68 patients, aged 9 days to 65 years, with various neuromuscular disorders. Additionally muscle specimens from 2 normal humans and 2 normal mice were used as positive controls, and those from 2 mice with x-linked muscular dystrophy as negative controls. The specimens from all 14 Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) patients, including one with preclinical DMD, showed negative dystrophin staining except for two which had 0.2% to 0.8% positive fibers. The mdx mice also showed negative dystrophin staining. In Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD), muscle fibers stained in a patchy or discontinuous fashion. Two symptomatic DMD carriers exhibited a distinct mosaic pattern of dystrophin positive and negative fibers. In contrast, dystrophin was present in all 7 biopsies from patients with 4 other types of muscular dystrophy (limb-girdle, congenital, myotonic and facioscapulohumeral). Other specimens, those from normal humans and control mice, revealed homogeneous immunostaining along the surface membranes of all muscle fibers. We thus conclude that immunohistochemical dystrophin staining can aid in differentiating DMD from preclinical DMD or BMD, as well as in the detection of DMD carriers.
AuthorsY J Jong, Y H Chuang, S S Chen, B H Chen, C H Chiang
JournalJournal of the Formosan Medical Association = Taiwan yi zhi (J Formos Med Assoc) Vol. 90 Issue 12 Pg. 1143-8 (Dec 1991) ISSN: 0929-6646 [Print] Singapore
PMID1686882 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • Dystrophin
Topics
  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Animals
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Dystrophin (metabolism)
  • Genetic Carrier Screening
  • Humans
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • Infant
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Middle Aged
  • Muscles (metabolism)
  • Muscular Dystrophies (diagnosis, genetics)
  • Muscular Dystrophy, Animal (metabolism)
  • Neuromuscular Diseases (diagnosis)

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