Connective tissue metabolism in muscular dystrophy. Early amino acid changes in collagen types isolated from the gastrocnemius muscle of developing dystrophic chicken embryos

Treatment of osteoporosis in a mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy using black bear parathyroid hormone

“…Duchenne muscular dystrophy is modeled in only a few species including dogs, chickens, and most commonly, mice (Askanas, et al, 1971, Bandman, 1985, Crowe and Baskin, 1979, DeMichele, et al, 1986, Saito, et al, 2007. These animals have been engineered to display deficiencies in the dystrophin gene at locus Xp21 of the X chromosome.…”