Dr. Stephan Lehnart, head of the "Cellular Biophysics and Translational Cardiology" research group at the UMG Heart Center, investigated the protein dysferlin, which is already known to be ...

The findings are published in the journal Nature Communications. The dysferlin protein is primarily responsible for repairing cell membranes. People with certain mutations in the gene coding for ...

Dysferlinopathies are inherited diseases that result in progressive weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles, and are caused by the absence of the protein dysferlin. The exact function of dysferlin is ...