Symptoms

= ** __What is the Cause and what are you to expect?__ ** = ==== DMD is a "malfunction" in the growth of the protein, dystrophin, which is either produces less than necessary or nothing at all; of an enzyme that connects muscle to bone. The body sees the unconnected muscle as useless, so it replaces it with fat and pus. This starts in the legs and later creeps up the torso and arms. Unfortunately, all we can do presently is make those that suffer a little more comfortable, although there is promising development in stem cell research that could be used to replace unattached muscle. The average life expectancy is early to late 20's, but the most anyone has lived with DMD, however, was to his or her mid-40s. ====

This picture shows the dystrophin protien.