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Anti-inflammatory nanoparticles significantly improve muscle function in a murine model of advanced muscular dystrophy

Theresa M. Raimondo, David Mooney

2021Science Advances61 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

recruitment, muscles exhibited increased fiber area and fourfold increases in contraction force and velocity versus controls. The ability of PA4 to shift immune responses, and improve dystrophic muscle function, suggests that immunomodulatory treatment may benefit many genetically diverse muscular dystrophies, all of which share inflammatory pathology.

Topics & Concepts

Muscular dystrophyInflammationFunction (biology)MedicineCell biologyImmunologyBiologyInternal medicineExercise and Physiological ResponsesMuscle Physiology and DisordersExtracellular vesicles in disease
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