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A number of hypotheses have been proposed for the etiology of muscular dystrophy(1). Of these, in recent years, the neurogenic hypothesis has been widely used to describe the biochemical lesion of genetically linked muscular dystrophy of some human and animal diseases.
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Austin, L., Kwok, C.T., Kuffer, A.D., Tang, B.Y. (1976). Phospholipid Metabolism in Murine Muscular Dystrophy. In: Porcellati, G., Amaducci, L., Galli, C. (eds) Function and Metabolism of Phospholipids in the Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 72. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0955-0_30
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