Gene expression analysis of FSHD muscle with different MRI pattern

ABSTRACT: Objective: to focus on the molecular mechanisms involved in the dystrophic process that leads to selective wasting of single muscles or muscle groups in Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD). By muscle MRI we observed that T2-short tau inversion recovery (T2-STIR) sequences identify two different patterns in which each muscle can be found before the irreversible dystrophic alteration, marked as T1-weighted sequence hyperintensity. We studied these conditions in order to obtain further information on the disease pathogenesis. Design: histopathology, gene expression profiling and real time PCR were performed on muscle biopsies. Subjects: muscles (n=8) with different MRI pattern (T1-weighted normal/T2-STIR normal and T1-weighted normal/T2-STIR hyperintense) from FSHD patients. Data we

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Mario Pescatori 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-26852 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress