期刊
NEUROMUSCULAR DISORDERS
卷 17, 期 8, 页码 587-596出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2007.04.010
关键词
confocal imaging; rotary-shadowing electron microscopy; Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy; collagen VI defects
资金
- Telethon [GGP04113] Funding Source: Medline
Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy (UCMD) is clinically characterized by muscle weakness, proximal contractures and distal hyperlaxity and morphologically branded by absence or reduction of collagen VI (ColVI), in muscle and in cultured fibroblasts. The ColVI defect is generally related to COL6 genes mutations, however UCDM patients without COL6 mutations have been recently reported, suggesting genetic heterogeneity. We report comparative morphological findings between a UCMD patient harboring a homozygous COL6A2 mutation and a patient with a typical UCMD phenotype in which mutations in COL6 genes were excluded. The patient with no mutations in COL6 genes exhibited a partial ColVI defect, which was only detected close to the basal membrane of myofibers. We describe how confocal microscopy and rotary-shadowing electron microscopy may be useful to identify a secondary ColVI defect. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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