image: Dysferlin expression in a monocyte from control (unaffected) individual compared with the absent expression of dysferlin in a monocyte fom one patient affected with Limb Girdle mucular dystrophy (LGMD2B). This image relates to an article that appeared in the Sept. 22, 2010, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Martin Krahn of INSERM in Marseille, France, and colleagues, is titled, "A Naturally Occurring Human Minidysferlin Protein Repairs Sarcolemmal Lesions in a Mouse Model of Dysferlinopathy." view more
Credit: [Image courtesy of Nicolas Lévy—INSERM UMR_S 910—Marseille, France]