Treatment with l-citrulline and metformin in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: study protocol for a single-centre, randomised, placebo-controlled trial

P Hafner, U Bonati, D Rubino, V Gocheva, T Zumbrunn… - Trials, 2016 - Springer
… of this study is to test if a 6-month treatment of a combination of l-citrulline and metformin is
more effective than placebo in preventing loss of motor function and muscle degeneration in …

Effect of combination l-citrulline and metformin treatment on motor function in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy: a randomized clinical trial

P Hafner, U Bonati, A Klein, D Rubino… - JAMA network …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Duchenne muscular dystrophy, treatment with a combination of l-citrulline and metformin
qMRI results in a randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial. Because corticosteroids slow …

… of single and combined metformin and l-citrulline supplementation on l-arginine-related pathways in Becker muscular dystrophy patients: possible biochemical and …

E Hanff, P Hafner, A Bollenbach, U Bonati… - Amino Acids, 2018 - Springer
… Before and after treatment, we measured in serum and urine … Metformin treatment
resulted in concentration decrease of … is a milder form of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). …

Effect of a long-term treatment with metformin in dystrophic mdx mice: A reconsideration of its potential clinical interest in Duchenne muscular dystrophy

P Mantuano, F Sanarica, E Conte, MG Morgese… - Biochemical …, 2018 - Elsevier
… We investigated if our chronic treatment with metformin was able to impact on the level of …
NO precursors, l-citrulline and l-arginine, in TA muscles via HPLC. In parallel, we measured the …

Teaching an old molecule new tricks: Drug repositioning for Duchenne muscular dystrophy

L Vitiello, L Tibaudo, E Pegoraro, L Bello… - International Journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
… for the treatment of DMD by the EMA, and a randomized, … , metformin/l-citrulline experimentation
is being moved on to a larger, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial with a …

Tamoxifen in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (TAMDMD): study protocol for a multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind phase 3 trial

S Nagy, P Hafner, S Schmidt, D Rubino-Nacht… - Trials, 2019 - Springer
… of the Treatment with L-citrulline and metformin in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD02)
study [52]… This multicenter, randomized, double-blind and placebo-controlled trial investigates …

Skeletal muscle metabolism in duchenne and becker muscular dystrophy—Implications for therapies

A Heydemann - Nutrients, 2018 - mdpi.com
… Hopefully, a similar study will follow soon with an increased cohort size and perhaps a
longer treatment period. The same group also investigated Metformin with l-Citrulline in a small …

What nutraceuticals can do for Duchenne muscular dystrophy: lessons learned from amino acid supplementation in mouse models

B De Paepe - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
… to 10 years treated with a combination of 2.5 g L-citrulline and 0.25 g metformin three times
a … , a randomized double-blinded placebo-controlled trial was conducted in another genetic …

Mitochondria and Reactive Oxygen Species: The Therapeutic Balance of Powers for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

SR Casati, D Cervia, P Roux-Biejat, C Moscheni… - Cells, 2024 - mdpi.com
… DMD therapy can be divided into approaches targeting dystrophin … a randomized double-blind
clinical trial on 47 ambulant DMD patients revealed that overall l-citrulline plus metformin

[HTML][HTML] An update on Becker muscular dystrophy

V Straub, M Guglieri - Current Opinion in Neurology, 2023 - journals.lww.com
… [26] (as a single and combined treatment with L-citrulline) … A recent single centre open label
study was conducted to … The phase II, double-blind, placebo-controlled study enrolled 51 …