The role of FHL proteins in the pathology of muscular dystrophies: identification of novel therapeutic targets

莫纳什大学的科学家最近发现了一种名为FHL1的蛋白质，它可以促进骨骼肌的修复和生长，并可能逆转遗传性肌营养不良症中出现的肌肉退化。这项研究将调查FHL1的表达是否可以改善肌肉营养不良小鼠模型的肌肉质量。通过这样做，这项研究提高了对导致肌肉营养不良的分子过程的理解，从而为这一疾病家族的新疗法开辟了道路。

Scientists at Monash University have recently identified a protein called FHL1 which promotes skeletal muscle repair-growth and may reverse the muscle degeneration seen in inherited muscular dystrophies. This study will investigate whether FHL1 expression can improve muscle mass in mouse models of muscular dystropy. In doing so, this research improve out understanding of the molecular processes that cause muscular dystrophies and thereby lead the way to new therapies for this family of diseases.