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Researchers ‘keep on trying’

Mescelar dystrophy campaign on TV

Every year, Jerry Lewis broadcasts appeals
across the continent to raise money for muscular

dystrophy. Throughout

the year, Dr

Ethel

Cosmos doggedly pursues the search for a cure to

the deadly disease.

For 20 years, Dr Cosmos
has been at the forefront of
research into the hereditary

disease that afflicts 20.000
children an Canada = mostly
bows with muscle

deternoration

In her bright
Hamalton laboratory she
supervises the efforts of six
research assistants who work
amidst incubators

modern

test tubes
and sophisucated clectromay
equipment
The ongins of muscular
dystrophy are not yet clear,
said. but the
effects are seen almost from
birth
The

lr Cosmos

muscle
will
try to repencrate itself but
just cant dott The

young

becomes destroyed It

regenerated new fibers are
again dystrophic
“And so

downhill
trying fo build new proteins
again iw becomes fatty
The bones
cant develop, and you yet
all these abnormalities of the
spinal cord

the muscle goes

and ounstead ol

and
bon functional

Consequently the
has

chub

trouble has

walking
httle strength

“By nine of LO) years old
they end up in a wheels haa
they cant walk anymore and
they have to be helped with
everything she said
Dystrophic children do not
usually hve more than 21
years, normally dying of
respiratory oof other
plroations rather

wom

than

dystrophy itself |

Theones vary with cach
researcher as to what causes
dystrophy Since muscles
and nerves need cagh other
to survive much carly work
was devoted to discovering
that a healthy nerve can live
inca dystrophic muscle Se
scientists now know that the
dystrophy is strictly a muscle
protein problem occurring
carly indesclopment

“Our pont

factors external to the

of view was.

muscle might be involved in
MS proper The
theory inp my lab is the

maturalon

Muscle iw incompatible with
the environment so you must
change the environment

“We are asking why cant
the muscle change loots
environment A nerve ots
coming in and saying now
do this and wcant dow So
whats wrong here We start
investigating a lot of dit

ferent things in the embryo

And
right now

thats where were at

Dr Cosmos fight against
dystrophy ts all consuming
She tS on boards
the US
Muscular
Dystrophy Associations She
appears

and
committees of

Canadian

and

annually oon the

Jerry Lewis

Pelethon
helping last vear to raise SY
milhon an the United States
and $4 S millonin © anada
She has

rnvolved

been integrally
with public
ante dystrophy
since the

and
screntibre

Campaigns days

when she wotked in het
natise United States one of
a very small field oof

dystrophy specrbists

“TL remember our first big
New
Jersey and | dont think we
had IS people there and hall
of those were
she «chuckled

conference wits in

observers

CONTINUED ON PAGE C3

BETWEEN _IN-
NINGS, Canucks’
Kevin McCarthy
stops to visit
muscular dystrophy
kids Steven Jackson
and Pauline Pope as
the hockey team
swapped skates for
fielders’ mitts at a

recent benefit
softball game at Nat
Bailey Stadium.

McCarthy is one of
many local sports
names who will
make a pitch for
donations during
the upcoming Jerry
Lewis Labor Day
Telethon for
muscular dystrophy
on CKVU starting
tonight August 31.
Telethon pledge
numbers are 437-
2211 and 669-9444.

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