Duchenne muscular dystrophy: assessment of experimental data from animals in relation to the human disease.
Animals with inherited skeletal muscle degeneration are studied as models of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Such investigations can provide significant information on various aspects of this disease but may not reveal the primary alteration in the gene product.
D000818:Animals; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D006801:Humans; D009136:Muscular Dystrophies / Q000145:classification / Q000209:etiology*; D009137:Muscular Dystrophy, Animal / Q000235:genetics*