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PRONUNCIATION OF DYSTROPHIN

dystrophin  [ˈdɪstrəfɪn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DYSTROPHIN

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Dystrophin is a noun.
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WHAT DOES DYSTROPHIN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

dystrophin

Dystrophin

Dystrophin is a rod-shaped cytoplasmic protein, and a vital part of a protein complex that connects the cytoskeleton of a muscle fiber to the surrounding extracellular matrix through the cell membrane. This complex is variously known as the costamere or the dystrophin-associated protein complex. Many muscle proteins, such as α-dystrobrevin, syncoilin, synemin, sarcoglycan, dystroglycan, and sarcospan, colocalize with dystrophin at the costamere. The dystrophin gene is one of the longest human genes known, covering 2.5 megabases at locus Xp21. The primary transcript measures about 2,400 kilobases and takes 16 hours to transcribe; the mature mRNA measures 14.0 kilobases. The 79 exons code for a protein of over 3500 amino acid residues.

Definition of dystrophin in the English dictionary

The definition of dystrophin in the dictionary is a protein, the absence of which is believed to cause muscular dystrophy.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DYSTROPHIN


bluefin
ˈbluːˌfɪn
bowfin
ˈbəʊˌfɪn
chromaffin
ˈkrəʊməfɪn
coffin
ˈkɒfɪn
cycloparaffin
ˌsaɪkləʊˈpærəfɪn
dauphin
ˈdɔːfɪn
delphin
ˈdɛlfɪn
dolphin
ˈdɒlfɪn
fin
fɪn
Finn
ˈfɪn
griffin
ˈɡrɪfɪn
McGuffin
məˈɡʌfɪn
muffin
ˈmʌfɪn
nitroparaffin
ˌnaɪtrəʊˈpærəfɪn
paraffin
ˈpærəfɪn
puffin
ˈpʌfɪn
redfin
ˈrɛdˌfɪn
serafin
ˈserəfɪn
tiffin
ˈtɪfɪn
xerafin
ˈzɛrəfɪn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DYSTROPHIN

dystaxic
dystectic
dysteleological
dysteleologist
dysteleology
dysthesia
dysthetic
dysthymia
dysthymiac
dysthymic
dysthymic disorder
dystocia
dystocial
dystonia
dystonic
dystopia
dystopian
dystrophia
dystrophic
dystrophy

WORDS THAT END LIKE DYSTROPHIN

Australian snubfin dolphin
bottlenose dolphin
bovine somatotrophin
chorionic gonadotrophin
corticotrophin
dynorphin
endorphin
Godolphin
gonadotrophin
luteotrophin
river dolphin
seraphin
snubfin dolphin
somatotrophin
thyrotrophin

Synonyms and antonyms of dystrophin in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «dystrophin» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DYSTROPHIN

Find out the translation of dystrophin to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dystrophin from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dystrophin» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

肌营养不良
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

distrofina
570 millions of speakers

English

dystrophin
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

डिस्ट्रोफ़िन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الدستروفين
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

дистрофина
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

distrofina
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

dystrophin
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dystrophine
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dystrophin
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Dystrophin
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ジストロフィン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

디스트로핀
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dystrophin
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dystrophin
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

டிஸ்டிரோபின்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

डिस्ट्रोफिन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

distrofin
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

distrofina
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dystrofiny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дистрофина
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

distrofina
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δυστροφίνη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

distrofien
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dystrofin
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dystrophin
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dystrophin

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DYSTROPHIN»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DYSTROPHIN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dystrophin

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DYSTROPHIN»

Discover the use of dystrophin in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dystrophin and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Dystrophin: Gene, Protein, and Cell Biology
This book is concerned with advances in research on dystrophin, and how its absence gives rise to muscular dystrophy.
Susan C. Brown, Jack A. Lucy, 1997
2
Stem Cell Therapy
Dystrophin is a large structural protein in close association to glycoproteins in the plasma membrane of normal myotubes or myofibers. The dystrophin/ glycoproteins complex provides support to the cell membrane cytoskeleton. Unlike the mdx ...
Erik V. Greer, 2006
3
Neuromuscular Diseases During Development
Dystrophin is completely or almost completely absent from the muscles of DMD patients, and is already absent in affected foetuses. No patients lacking dystrophin have ever been reported with a clinical phenoiypc other than DMD.
Fernando Cornelio, Giovanni Lanzi, Ermellina Fedrizzi, 1997
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Theory and Practice of Histological Techniques
Both Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies are now known to result from mutations in the dystrophin gene, and together are referred to as ' dystrophinopathies'. The dystrophin gene is a very large gene (3 mega- bases of DNA), ...
John D. Bancroft, Marilyn Gamble, 2008
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Encyclopedia of Genetics
Figure 2 Transcript (A) and protein (B) maps of the dystrophin gene. The transcript map (A) shows the approximate location of the 79 exons and the position of the five different cell-type specific expression promoters, namely the C (cortical), ...
Eric C. R. Reeve, Isobel Black, 2001
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The Molecular and Genetic Basis of Neurologic and ...
It is difficult to prove causality of missense mutations because there is no defined functional test for mutant dystrophin proteins. Biochemistry Dystrophin was found to be associated with the plasma membrane both by subcellular fractionation ...
Roger N. Rosenberg, 2008
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Identification and Characterization of Novel Binding ...
INTRODUCTION: Dystrophin Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an X- linked, lethal muscle wasting disorder that is caused by mutations resulting in absent or non-functional dystrophin protein (Hoffman et al., 1987). The dystrophin gene ...
Jill Louise Humston, 2008
8
Disorders of Voluntary Muscle
Deletion of as much as 50% of the dystrophin gene can still be compatible with a relatively mild clinical phenotype; a patient with a deletion of exons 17-51 (68% of the rod domain) still shows normal localization of the dystrophin-associated ...
George Karpati, David Hilton-Jones, Robert C. Griggs, 2001
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Gene and Cell Therapy: Therapeutic Mechanisms and ...
The first challenge is that the dystrophin gene is the largest known gene with a full-length cDNA that is 14kb. However, dystrophin can retain significant function even when missing large portions of its sequence. Large, in- frame deletions in the ...
Nancy Smyth Templeton, 2008
10
New Scientist
They have named the missing protein "dystrophin". According to Kay Davies of the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, "the lack of dystrophin seems to act like a time bomb, causing some sort of gradual non- regeneration of fibres". Kunkel and  ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DYSTROPHIN»

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NHS Refuses Translarna For The Treatment of Duchenne Muscular …
... by progressive muscle degeneration and weakness and is caused by an absence of dystrophin, a protein that helps keep muscle cells intact. «Muscular Dystrophy News, Jul 15»
2
Disease modeling and lentiviral gene transfer in patient-specific …
Filareto et al. showed that they have generated pluripotent stem cell from tip tail fibroblast of mice lacking both dystrophin and utrophin and ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
3
What Propelled Sarepta Therapeutics' Stock 19% Higher in June?
Eteplirsen is an exon-51 skipping RNA-interference drug designed to increase production of dystrophin, the sheath that surrounds and protects ... «Motley Fool, Jul 15»
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Eteplirsen is a drug that is able to restore the body into being able to produce dystrophin levels once again thus in turn restoring proper muscle ... «CNA Finance, Jul 15»
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The Race To Cure Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy - An Investor's …
It is caused by an absence of dystrophin, which is an essential protein in muscle cells. Symptoms generally start to manifest in young boys as ... «Seeking Alpha, Jul 15»
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Summit Therapeutics adds Europe to patent list for key compound
Summit's compound regulates utrophin - a protein - to compensate for the lack of dystrophin that is at the root of DMD. Share. Facebook; Twitter · Google+ ... «Proactive Investors UK, Jul 15»
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Pre-Market News Alert on: Unum Group (NYSE:UNM), Marriott …
Drisapersen induces the skipping of dystrophin exon 51, potentially providing a therapeutic benefit to DMD patients for whom skipping of exon ... «wsnewspublishers, Jul 15»
8
Genetic Therapeutic Strategies for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
DMD is an inherited disorder caused by a defective gene called dystrophin. It is characterized by a rapid progressive skeletal muscle weakness ... «Muscular Dystrophy News, Jul 15»
9
ENZ, LMNX Settle Suit, VSAR Regains Velocity, CATB Hits A High
... 18 ambulatory boys between ages 4 and 7 with a genetically confirmed diagnosis of DMD, regardless of the specific dystrophin mutation. «Nasdaq, Jul 15»
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LOOK: Man with rare illness graduates cum laude from UP Los Banos
According to the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA), DMD is caused by an absence of dystrophin, a protein responsible for keeping ... «ABS CBN News, Jul 15»

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