Dr. Gordon W Peterson M.D.

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• Muscular Dystrophy: Cellular Antennae Play Key Role in Muscle Loss

  As humans age, it is common for muscle cells to diminish and be exchanged with fat cells. It is a slow process as one cell after another is exchanged. However, this process quickens when a muscle is injured. The worst case occurs in muscle wasting diseases like Duchenne muscular dystrophy. A...