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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
How did you happen to, how was that mouse found? Did they just note it among the mouse population there, or was an attempt made to find this particular kind of animal?

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{SPEAKER name="Melville H. Manson"}
No, apparently this was a spontaneous mutation in one specific strain of mice. The observation was made by a senior medical student, as I recall it. And as a result of that, as I said, grants have been made so that these mice can be propagated and used in other laboratories.

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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
Well now, has there been any use of drugs on the mice to try to find out what is a possibility of treatment?

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{SPEAKER name="Melville H. Manson"}
The area of drug therapy is just really in its infancy and just beginning as far as the mice are concerned. There have been a whole host of medications, ranging through a series of vitamins and protein extracts and protein hydrolysates. But at the present time, none have had any significant or lasting effect on muscular dystrophy.

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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
What about the possibility of additional research? Does your association, your group, have a regular program of raising money during the year?

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{SPEAKER name="Melville H. Manson"}
Yes, there is an annual drive for muscular dystrophy conducted throughout the United States and mostly around Thanksgiving time. In the past years, each succeeding year has been more successful as far as fundraising and has made possible not only the expansion of our search program to institutions through grants and aid, but very shortly there will be started instruction on an institute for muscle disease.