Spin label study of erythrocyte membrane fluidity in myotonic and Duchenne muscular dystrophy and congenital myotonia

D. Allan Butterfield, D. B. Chesnut, Stanley H. Appel, Allen D. Roses

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Abstract

INTACT erythrocyte membranes from patients with myotonic muscular dystrophy (MMD) have been shown by spin labelling (review of method in ref. 1) to have greater membrane surface fluidity than normal2,3. We have now evaluated the specificity of this phenomenon. We used erythrocytes from patients with MMD, and also from patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), as a model of dystrophy with no myotonia, and from patients with congenital myotonia (CM) as a model of myotonia without dystrophy.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)159-161
Number of pages3
JournalNature
Volume263
Issue number5573
DOIs
StatePublished - 1976

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