Avian Muscular Dystrophy: Functional and Biochemical Improvement with Diphenylhydantoin
- 4 March 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 195 (4281) , 873-875
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.841310
Abstract
Chicks affected with hereditary muscular dystrophy were injected twice daily with 20 milligrams of diphenylhydantoin per kilogram of body weight on days 1 to 40 after hatching. The righting ability of dystrophic chicks treated with diphenylhydantoin was improved compared to that of untreated dystrophic chicks, and acetylcholinesterase activity was reduced to normal levels in the posterior latissimus dorsi muscles.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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