Research progress of muscle atrophy animal models / 中国药理学通报

An effective therapeutic method for muscular dystro-phy is unavailable now;however,the research and development of anti-muscular dystrophy drugs need appropriate animal mod-els. Researchers focus on Caenorhabditis elegans because of the andvantages such as the transparent body, short life cycle, and high homology with human genes. The Caenorhabditis elegans mutant strains show musucular dystrophy phenotype similar to human diseases. In this paper,the application of Caenorhabditis elegans models in muscular dystrophy research has been re-viewed.