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Drug curbs muscular dystrophy in mice
Researchers say a common blood-pressure medicine reduced muscle damage
By Randolph E. Schmid The Associated Press
Article Last Updated: 01/21/2007 11:04:10 PM MST

Washington - A widely used blood-pressure drug reduced muscle damage in mice with the most common form of muscular dystrophy, researchers report. A team at Johns Hopkins University found the drug losartan seemed to improve muscle regeneration in mice with a rare condition known as Marfan syndrome and in mice with Duchenne muscular dystrophy - the most common form in children. "The results are very intriguing and certainly worthy of further investigation," said Dr. Valerie Cwik, medical director of the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

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Read the research behind this story in the journal Nature Medicine