The mice may help researchers find treatments for muscular dystrophy or the muscle wasting that accompanies cancer or AIDS.

这些用于研究的老鼠有利于帮助科学家发现一系列治疗方法，来应对肌肉萎缩症或伴随癌症和艾滋而产生的肌肉消耗症。

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Our children were perfectly healthy and bright until they got this disease which causes severe muscular wasting.

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Wyeth, one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, created a myostatin-blocking drug and put it into clinical trials for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a muscle-wasting disease that kills hundreds of men each year before they reach their mid-thirties.

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