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	Muscular dystrophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The muscular dystrophies are a group of genetic and hereditary muscle diseases; characterized by progressive skeletal muscle weakness, defects in muscle proteins, and the death of muscle cells and tissue.
		Duchenne MD is the most common form of muscular dystrophy affecting children, and myotonic muscular dystrophy is the most common form affecting adults.
		The Muscular Dystrophy Association is one of the most prominent disease advocacy organizations in the world, pumping millions of dollars every year into MD research.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Muscular_dystrophy (582 words)

	Muscle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Diagnostic procedures that may reveal muscular disorders include testing creatine kinase levels in the blood and electromyography (measuring electrical activity in muscles).
		Muscular dystrophy is a large group of diseases, many of them hereditary, where the muscle integrity is disrupted.
		While it may not lead to any muscular symptoms at all, the myoglobin thus released may cause acute renal failure.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Muscular (1788 words)

	Muscular Dystrophy - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
		Duchenne's muscular dystrophy is caused by an X-linked recessive gene.
		In Duchenne's muscular dystrophy (DMD), one-third of all cases are thought to be new mutations in the family (not inherited from the mother).
		Muscular dystrophy is usually seen in children before the age of 5, with weakness typically affecting the shoulder and pelvic muscle as one of the initial symptoms.
	www.chop.edu /consumer/your_child/condition_section_index.jsp?root_id=-8659&id=-8672 (967 words)

	healthyNJ--Information for Healthy Living--Muscular Dystrophy
		Muscular dystrophies are a group of inherited muscle disorders that lead to muscle weakness of varying severity.
		Duchenne muscular dystrophy is diagnosed when blood tests show the gene for the protein dystrophin to be absent or abnormal and a muscle biopsy shows extremely low levels of dystrophin in the muscle.
		Similarly, Becker muscular dystrophy is diagnosed when blood tests show the gene for the protein dystrophin to be abnormal and a muscle biopsy shows low levels of dystrophin in the muscle, but not as low as in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
	www.healthynj.org /dis-con/musculardys/main.htm (1757 words)

	MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY 101 QUESTIONS 1_25 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Muscular dystrophy is the name applied to a group of diseases that are, for the most part, genetically determined and that cause gradual wasting of muscle with accompanying weakness and deformity.
		In Duchenne muscular dystrophy, the defective gene is carried by the female and the disease is transmitted to the male (recessive "X-linked" inheritance pattern).
		If the mother of a son with Duchenne muscular dystrophy has an elevated CPK but her daughter's CPK in normal, what then is the risk to the daughter of bearing a son with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
	www.mda.org.au /publication/101/md101_25.html (1343 words)

	Dr. Koop - Muscular Dystrophy- Health Encyclopedia and Reference
		Muscular dystrophy is a term used to describe a number of inherited disorders characterized by progressive weakness and wasting of the muscles.
		The most common and severe type is Duchenne's muscular dystrophy (MD), in which a genetic defect leads to the formation of an abnormal type of muscle protein called dystrophin.
		Muscular dystrophy is a genetically determined disease, although why the individuals who are genetically the same get MDs of different severity is not known.
	www.drkoop.com /encyclopedia/43/451.html (587 words)

	Muscular Dystrophy
		Muscular dystrophy (MD) is a genetic disorder that weakens the muscles that help the body move.
		Congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD) is the term for all types of MD that show signs in babies and young children, although the MD isn't always diagnosed right away.
		The life expectancy (in other words, how long a person may live) for many of these forms of muscular dystrophy depends on the degree to which a person's muscles are weakened as well as how much the heart and lungs are affected.
	kidshealth.org /teen/diseases_conditions/bones/muscular_dystrophy.html (825 words)

	Muscular dystrophy
		Muscular dystrophy (MD) is a group of rare inherited muscle diseases in which muscle fibers are unusually susceptible to damage.
		Muscular dystrophy is a general term for a group of inherited diseases involving a defective gene.
		Duchenne's and Becker's muscular dystrophies are passed from mother to son through one of the mother's genes in a pattern called X-linked recessive inheritance.
	www.cnn.com /HEALTH/library/DS/00200.html (2198 words)

	Muscular Dystrophy - DrGreene.com - caring for the next generation
		Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy is a very rare form of muscular dystrophy that is also an X-linked recessive condition, with affected boys born to mothers who are carriers.
		Congenital muscular dystrophy and limb-girdle muscular dystrophy are recessive conditions.
		Depending on the type of muscular dystrophy, complications may also include cataracts, diabetes, heart disease, hypothyroidism, immunodeficiency, mental retardation, scoliosis, seizures, or testicular atrophy.
	www.drgreene.org /body.cfm?id=21&action=detail&ref=1443 (943 words)

	Muscular Dystrophy
		Muscular dystrophy is the term used to describe a group of inherited disorders that cause progressive muscle weakness.
		Treatment of muscular dystrophy is mainly directed at preventing the complications of weakness, including decreased mobility and dexterity, contractures, scoliosis, heart defects, and respiratory weaknesses.
		The selection of anesthesia is critical in muscular dystrophy patients because of the possibility of malignant hyperthermia, a severe reaction to halothane anesthetic.
	www.hmc.psu.edu /healthinfo/m/musculardystrophy.htm (1686 words)

	Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine: Muscular dystrophy
		Muscular dystrophy is the name for a group of inherited disorders in which strength and muscle bulk gradually decline.
		Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD): LGMD begins in late childhood to early adulthood and affects both men and women, causing weakness in the muscles around the hips and shoulders.
		Distal muscular dystrophy (DD): DD begins in middle age or later, causing weakness in the muscles of the feet and hands.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g2601/is_0009/ai_2601000924 (1075 words)

	Muscular Dystrophy Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The congenital muscular dystrophies are a group of conditions which share early presentation and a similar appearance of the muscle.
		Congenital muscular dystrophy is a very heterogeneous group of conditions and in the last few years a lot of effort has gone into identifying the separate entities and in locating the gene responsible for a number of these forms.
		The gene responsible for merosin-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy was the first gene to be identified in a proportion of patients with congenital muscular dystrophy and lies on chromosome 6 (1p35-p36).
	www.muscular-dystrophy.org.uk /information_resources/factsheets/medical_conditions_factsheets/merosindeficien.html (1429 words)

	Muscular Dystrophy
		Muscular dystrophy (MD) is a genetic disorder that gradually weakens the body's muscles.
		In cases of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, symptoms usually begin to appear around age 5, as the pelvic muscles begin to weaken.
		Muscular dystrophy is often degenerative, so kids may pass through different stages as the disease progresses and require different kinds of treatment.
	kidshealth.org /parent/medical/bones/muscular_dystrophy.html (1762 words)

	Muscular Christianity
		From a thorough examination of earlier children’s literature, Redmond argues that the presentation of the notion of muscular Christianity in the novels of Kingsley and Hughes is the culmination of a trend that began in the eighteenth century.
		Kingsley, advocate of muscular Christianity and espouser of manliness, detested what he considered to be effeminate "Mariolatry" which was responsible for weakness and womanishness in society.
		Winn writes that Kingsley’s muscular Christianity connoted both a hatred of the notion that the weakness of the body could be associated with spiritual strength, as well as a dislike of asceticism, Manicheism, and celibacy.
	www2.bc.edu /~rappleb/kingsley/KMuscularChristianity.html (2793 words)

	► Duchenne muscular dystrophy
		Duchenne muscular dystrophy is an inherited disorder characterized by rapidly progressive muscle weakness which starts in the legs and pelvis and later affects the whole body.
		Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a rapidly progressive form of muscular dystrophy.
		Duchenne muscular dystrophy is inherited in an X-linked recessive pattern.
	www.umm.edu /ency/article/000705.htm (551 words)

	Muscular Dystrophy Family Foundation ® - Commonly Asked Questions About MD
		Muscular Dystrophy Family Foundation ® - Commonly Asked Questions About MD You are not alone.
		Muscular Dystrophy (MD) is the common name for several progressive hereditary diseases that cause muscles to weaken and degenerate.
		Most muscular dystrophies are inherited and caused by alterations in specific genes.
	www.mdff.org /FAQMD.html (939 words)

	Clifford Putney - Muscular Christianity
		The notion of Muscular Christianity was an important feature of some key discourses around work with boys and men in the second half of the nineteenth century.
		Soon the press in general was calling both writers muscular Christians and also applying that label to the genre they inspired: adventure novels replete with high principles and manly Christian heroes.
		These efforts to make muscular Christianity an integral part of the churches lasted throughout World War I. But in the pacifistic 1920s, there emerged widespread discontent with many of the ideals that had flourished during World War I, including muscular Christianity.
	www.infed.org /christianeducation/muscular_christianity.htm (941 words)

	Neurology - Muscular Dystrophy
		Muscular dystrophy (MD) is a group of diseases that cause weakness in the muscles closest to the torso (mid-section of the body).
		Duchenne's muscular dystrophy is an inherited disease of skeletal (voluntary) muscles and the most common form of childhood muscular dystrophy.
		The specific gene disorder is known for most of the common muscular dystrophies, but there are many less common conditions for which the specific defects need to be discovered.
	www.csmc.edu /3006.html (512 words)

	Muscular Christianity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Muscular Christianity was an important religious, literary, and social movement of the mid-nineteenth century.
		Muscular Christianity argues that the ideologies of the movement were extreme versions of common cultural conceptions, and that anxieties evident in Muscular Christian texts, often manifested through images of the body as a site of socio-political conflict, were pervasive throughout society.
		Throughout, Muscular Christianity is shown to be at the heart of issues of gender, class, and national identity in the Victorian age.
	www.litencyc.com /php/adpage.php?id=698 (141 words)

	FamilyFun: Health Encyclopedia: Muscular Dystrophy
		The muscular dystrophies are classified according to age at onset, rate of progression, heredity pattern and muscle groups affected.
		The muscular dystrophies are caused by gene defects that cause the muscles to deteriorate.
		The main treatment for the early stages of muscular dystrophy is regular physical therapy with passive stretching of key muscles and joint movement to reduce painful muscle contracture and possibly prolong walking.
	www.familyfun.go.com /parenting/child/health/childhealth/dony79enc_musc (554 words)

	Muscular Dystrophy: a challenge to both science and ethics in the quest for a better life
		Muscular Dystrophy: a challenge to both science and ethics in the quest for a better life.
		After explaining what the symptoms and causes for muscular dystrophy are we shall reflect upon the moral, ethical and practical debates that surround the technology being developed for the prevention, screening and curing of the disorder.
		Duchenne muscular dystrophy is inherited in an X-linked recessive way although in up to a third of cases DMD occurs in families with no previous history of the disease.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~cbbc/courses/bio4/bio4-1997/AmirNahai.html (2922 words)

	DMD DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The muscular dystrophies are a group of muscle diseases which have three features in common: they are hereditary; they are progressive; and each causes a characteristic, selective pattern of weakness.
		Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy (LGMD), which is most often of autosomal recessive inheritance, may be difficult or impossible to distinguish from BMD which is X-linked recessive.
		Often the probability that a woman is a carrier is so low that the risk of muscular dystrophy to her baby is much lower than the average risk of serious birth defect or genetic disease.
	www.mda.org.au /specific/mdadmd.html (2382 words)

	MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Muscular Dystrophy (dih-strow-fee) is also called "MD." It is a general name for a group of genetic diseases that can effect muscles all over your body.
		Causes: All the muscular dystrophies are caused by problems with the information in genes and chromosomes.
		Coping: Muscular dystrophy a life-changing disease for you and your family.
	www.medformation.com /ac/mm_qdis.nsf/qd/nd1624g.htm (648 words)

	Muscular Dystrophy Overview
		The muscular dystrophies refer to a group of genetic diseases characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal or voluntary muscles.
		Duchenne muscular dystrophy is the most common form affecting children, while myotonic MD is the most common form affecting adults.
		There is no cure for muscular dystrophy, although some drugs still in the trial stage have shown promise in slowing or delaying the progression of the disease.
	clevelandclinic.org /health/health-info/docs/2100/2112.asp?index=8877 (1092 words)

	DoctorYourself.com - Muscular Dystrophy
		Muscular dystrophy and individual metabolic patterns: The possibilities of a nutritional therapeutic approach.
		The evidence about the involvement of vitamin E and vitamin C as well as B6 and other vitamins in the functioning of muscles suggests that the optimum intakes of these nutrients should be of value to the patients.
		The most remarkable revelation of all is that muscular dystrophy is described as easier to cure in children, and easier still with added B vitamins and vitamin C (p 644).
	www.doctoryourself.com /dystrophy.html (3394 words)

	ENLmedical.com: Conditions And Concerns: Medical Encyclopedia: Muscular dystrophy
		Disorders are distinguished by the type of inheritance (sex-linked, dominant genes, or recessive gene, and so on), the age when symptoms appear, and the types of symptoms that develop.
		Lambert-Eaton syndrome and myasthenia gravis have symptoms that may be similar to early stages of some types of muscular dystrophies.
		Duchenne's muscular dystrophy can be detected with about 95 percent accuracy by genetic studies performed during pregnancy.
	www.enlmedical.com /article/001190.htm (452 words)

	► Becker's muscular dystrophy
		Sons of a man with Becker's muscular dystrophy do not develop the disorder, but daughters may be carriers.
		Call your health care provider if a person with Becker's muscular dystrophy develops new symptoms (particularly fever with cough or breathing difficulties).
		Call your health care provider if you are planning a family and Becker's muscular dystrophy has been diagnosed in you or other family members.
	www.umm.edu /ency/article/000706trt.htm (261 words)

	Muscular Dystrophy Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Muscular Dystrophy is a progressive genetic condition that causes weakening and wasting of muscles.
		Muscular dystrophy and other neuromuscular disorders are not contagious, but anyone can get them.
		The Muscular Dystrophy Forum was setup to give people who are touched by Muscular Dystrophy a place to discuss their hopes and fears, and to catch up on the recent research news.
	www.mdforum.co.uk (207 words)

	Duchenne muscular dystrophy
		In contrast, Becker muscular dystrophy is a form that progresses much more slowly.
		The Muscular Dystrophy Association is an excellent source of information on this disease.
		Duchenne muscular dystrophy can be detected with about 95% accuracy by genetic studies performed during pregnancy.
	www.pennhealth.com /ency/article/000705.htm (832 words)

	FacioScapuloHumeral (FSH or FSHD) Muscular Dystrophy and resources for People with Disabilities.
		Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy is a type of muscular dystrophy that affects the upper body, unlike some other types that affect primarily the lower body (including Duchenne's muscular dystrophy and Becker's muscular dystrophy).
		It is an inherited disorder with a autosomal dominant inheritance pattern (the disorder appears in men and women and may develop if either parent carries the gene for the disorder).
		Call for an appointment with your health care provider if you are planning a family and facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy has been diagnosed in yourself, your spouse, or family members.
	www.mysuccess.net /fsh.html (1356 words)

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