What do you know about Muscular Dystrophy?

Question

i'm doing a reasurch project and i need any info. u have.
including places to go to get info.

Answer 1

http://www.mdausa.org/

Answer 2

You don't say whether your project is on muscular dystrophy, in general, or a specific dystrophy condition.

Muscular dystrophy can be defined as a genetic condition that affects the skeletal muscles, often causing them to cease working causing problems walking, moving and even breathing.

The most common form of the condition is Duchenne muscular dystrophy, which is a recessive sex-linked disorder that is carried on the x-chromosome. This means that only boys of mothers who are carriers get it whereas girls are usually only carriers of the gene. Usually people with this condition don't live long into adulthood.

I'd check out these sites for more information:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/medical_notes/4250311.stm (this is recommend if you're doing a school project, as opposed to a uni project, or if you just want everything explained simply before looking for meatier material)

http://www.muscular-dystrophy.org/

http://www.mdausa.org/

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/md/md.htm

http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/health_problems/bone/muscular_dystrophy.html (this site is good if you're quite young)

Answer 3

I am a Run For Our Sons team member for a an organization called Parent Project http://www.parentprojectmd.org
Check out the web site for lots of information on Muscular Dystrophy.

Please visit my web site http://www.firstgiving.com/runforchris
I will be running a marathon on 1/7/06 to raise money for the organization and in honor of my cousin that has Becker Muscular Dystrophy.

Robert.

Answer 4

Yes I do know quite a bit and have a family member with Duchannes MD... HOWEVER.... this is a well know topic and there is no reason you shouldn't be able to get your own sources... the time it took to ask this question, could have found you a GREAT web site with loads fo facts!


Doesnt ANYONE do their own homework anymore?