Ben Gurion University and Soroka Medical Center genetic researchers focus on commonalities between a type of limb-girdle muscular dystrophy and the cholesterol synthesis pathway
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Statins are the most commonly used medication in lowering blood cholesterol, prescribed to tens of millions in the Western world. Statins act through inhibition of the enzyme HMG CoA reductase. Nearly 20% of statin users develop muscle symptoms (“sta
A research team from Ben Gurion University (BGU) in Be’er Sheva and Soroka University Medical Center discovered a severe hereditary muscle disease that develops around the age of 40 years, progressing by the early 50s to complete immobility of the limbs and the chest muscles, necessitating full-time artificial ventilation and eventually culminating in death. They […]