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Desmin forms toxic, seeding-competent amyloid aggregates that persist in muscle fibers

Posted on August 2, 2019

Niraja Kedia, Khalid Arhzaouy, Sara K. Pittman, Yuanzi Sun, Mark Batchelor, Conrad C. Weihl, and Jan Bieschke. PNAS first published August 1, 2019 Read More

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Estimating prevalence for limb-girdle muscular dystrophy based on public sequencing databases

Posted on June 12, 2019

Wei Liu, Sander Pajusalu, Nicole J. Lake, Geyu Zhou, Nilah Ioannidis, Plavi Mittal, Nicholas E. Johnson, Conrad C. Weihl, Bradley A. Williams, Douglas E. Albrecht, Laura E. Rufibach & Monkol Lek. Genetics in Medicine 2019 Read More

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Lithium chloride corrects weakness and myopathology in a preclinical model of LGMD1D

Posted on April 18, 2019

Andrew R. Findlay, Rocio Bengoechea, Sara K. Pittman, Tsui-Fen Chou, Heather L. True, Conrad C. Weihl. Neurology Genetics, April 2019; 5 (2) Read More

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Lithium boosts muscle strength in mice with rare muscular dystrophy

Posted on April 18, 2019

New drug target identified Read More

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VCP maintains lysosomal homeostasis and TFEB activity in differentiated skeletal muscle

Posted on February 12, 2019

Khalid Arhzaouy, Chrisovalantis Papadopoulos, Nina Schulze, Sara K. Pittman, Hemmo Meyer & Conrad C. Weihl. Autophagy 2019 Read More

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