Face- and eye-muscle research sheds new light on Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Monday, April 11, 2016 - 10:41
in Health & Medicine
Researchers have investigated the biochemical and physiological characteristics of orbicularis oculi, a group of facial muscles that control the eyelids and are selectively spared or involved in different neuromuscular disorders. What they found also helps to explain why another set of muscles -- the extraocular muscles that control the movement of the eye -- are not affected by Duchenne muscular dystrophy, congenital muscular dystrophy, and aging.