[HTML][HTML] Microdystrophin ameliorates muscular dystrophy in the canine model of duchenne muscular dystrophy

JH Shin, X Pan, CH Hakim, HT Yang, Y Yue, K Zhang… - Molecular therapy, 2013 - cell.com
Dystrophin deficiency results in lethal Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Substituting
missing dystrophin with abbreviated microdystrophin has dramatically alleviated disease in …

Naturally occurring utrophin correlates with disease severity in Duchenne muscular dystrophy

KA Kleopa, A Drousiotou, E Mavrikiou… - Human molecular …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Although there is good experimental data that utrophin, the autosomal analog of dystrophin,
can ameliorate the phenotype in dystrophinopathies, there is scant evidence from human …

L-arginine improves dystrophic phenotype in mdx mice

V Voisin, C Sébrié, S Matecki, H Yu, B Gillet… - Neurobiology of …, 2005 - Elsevier
A possible treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophies would be to compensate for
dystrophin loss by increasing the expression of utrophin, another cytoskeletal protein of the …

Prevention of pathology in mdx mice by expression of utrophin: analysis using an inducible transgenic expression system

S Squire, JM Raymackers… - Human molecular …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Duchenne muscular dystrophy results from the absence of dystrophin, a cytoskeletal protein.
Previously, we have shown in a transgenic mouse model of the disease (mdx) that high …

[HTML][HTML] In-frame dystrophin following exon 51-skipping improves muscle pathology and function in the exon 52–deficient mdx mouse

Y Aoki, A Nakamura, T Yokota, T Saito, H Okazawa… - Molecular Therapy, 2010 - cell.com
A promising therapeutic approach for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is exon skipping
using antisense oligonucleotides (AOs). In-frame deletions of the hinge 3 region of the …

[HTML][HTML] Safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics of SMT C1100, a 2-Arylbenzoxazole utrophin modulator, following single-and multiple-dose administration to …

V Ricotti, S Spinty, H Roper, I Hughes, B Tejura… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Purpose SMT C1100 is a utrophin modulator being evaluated as a treatment for Duchenne
muscular dystrophy (DMD). This study, the first in pediatric DMD patients, reports the safety …

Delivery of AAV2/9-microdystrophin genes incorporating helix 1 of the coiled-coil motif in the C-terminal domain of dystrophin improves muscle pathology and restores …

T Koo, A Malerba, T Athanasopoulos, C Trollet… - Human gene …, 2011 - liebertpub.com
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a severe X-linked inherited muscle wasting disorder
caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene. Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors have …

Prevention of the dystrophic phenotype in dystrophin/utrophin-deficient muscle following adenovirus-mediated transfer of a utrophin minigene

PM Wakefield, JM Tinsley, MJA Wood, R Gilbert… - Gene therapy, 2000 - nature.com
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a progressive muscle wasting disorder caused by
the lack of a subsarcolemmal protein, dystrophin. We have previously shown that the …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging strategies in the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy

PB Shieh - Neurotherapeutics, 2018 - Elsevier
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a progressive X-linked degenerative muscle
disease due to mutations in the DMD gene. Genetic confirmation has become standard in …

[HTML][HTML] Skeletal and cardiac myopathies in mice lacking utrophin and dystrophin: a model for Duchenne muscular dystrophy

RM Grady, H Teng, MC Nichol, JC Cunningham… - Cell, 1997 - cell.com
Dystrophin is a cytoskeletal protein of muscle fibers; its loss in humans leads to Duchenne
muscular dystrophy, an inevitably fatal wasting of skeletal and cardiac muscle. mdx mice …