Top row: skeletal muscle without dystrophin. Left to right: skeletal muscle nuclei (blue), skeletal muscle (red), missing dystrophin, overlay of all three images to the left. Bottom row: skeletal ...

Skeletal muscle is the type of muscle that controls movement. Problems with these muscles can be minor, life-threatening, or ongoing problems that make it hard to perform basic daily activities.

Purdue University’s James Markworth, assistant professor of animal sciences, and PhD student Xinyue Lu observe results of immunofluorescent staining of a cross-sectional sample of skeletal muscle ...