Dystrophin is a rod-shaped cytoplasmic protein, and a vital part of a protein complex that connects the cytoskeleton of a muscle fiber to the surrounding extracellular matrix through the cell membrane. This complex is variously known as the costamere or the dystrophin-associated protein complex.he dystrophin gene is one of the longest human genes known, covering 2.5 megabases (0.08% of the human genome) at locus Xp21.
Bethesda is a census-designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, just northwest of the United States capital of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a local church, the Bethesda Meeting House (1820, rebuilt 1849), which in turn took its name from Jerusalem 's Pool of Bethesda.
The vast majority of visitors to the Washington, DC area will use either the Rosslyn Metro Station stop , which is likely the choice for hotels in Arlington and Alexandria VA as well as Georgetown and some areas of downtown DC, or LâEnfant Plaza Metro Station, 7th St. and D St, SW .