α-dystroglycan immunoexpression in skeletal muscle and cognitive performance

The Duchenne muscular systrophy (DMD) is a muscular dystrophy with cognitive impairment pres- ent in 20-30% of the cases. In the present study, in order to study the relationship between the α-dystroglycan (α-DG) immunostaining in skeletal muscle and cognitive performance in DMD patients, 19 were assessed. Twelve patients performed the intelligence quotient (IQ) below the average. Among the 19 patients, two were assessed by the Stanford-Binet test and 17 by Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-III (WISC-III). Nine patients per- formed a verbal IQ below the average, only three patients performed an average verbal IQ. The muscle biopsies immunostained with antibodies to α-DG showed that 17 patients presented a low expression, below 25% of the total fibers. Two patients presented α-DG immunostaining above 40% and an IQ within the average. No signif- icant statistical relationship was demonstrated among total IQ, verbal IQ and execution IQ and α-DG immunos- taining at these patients muscle samples.

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