3. Physiology
        3.10. Muscle
3.10.2. Scrap

[WG21:p75]

Anaerobic metabolism is self-limiting due to pH drop (produced by lactate production), which limit the enzymes

 

[WG21:p78]

Duchenne's muscular dystrophy

X-linked. 1 in 3000 male. Fatal by 30 yo.

Caused by mutations in dystropin gene that cause dystrophin to be absent from the muscle.



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