Therapeutic developments for Duchenne muscular dystrophy

IEC Verhaart, A Aartsma-Rus - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2019 - nature.com
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is caused by the lack of functional dystrophin protein.
Improvements in patient care and disease management have slowed down disease …

Restoring dystrophin expression in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: current status of therapeutic approaches

Y Shimizu-Motohashi, H Komaki, N Motohashi… - Journal of personalized …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a rare genetic disorder characterized by progressive
muscle weakness, is caused by the absence or a decreased amount of the muscle …

Emerging genetic therapies to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy

SF Nelson, RH Crosbie, MC Miceli… - Current opinion in …, 2009 - journals.lww.com
These novel therapies that act to correct the primary genetic defect of dystrophin deficiency
are among the first generation of therapies tailored to correct specific mutations in humans …

[HTML][HTML] Combined therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy to optimize treatment efficacy

G Cordova, E Negroni, C Cabello-Verrugio… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Duchene Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is the most frequent muscular dystrophy and one of the
most severe due to the absence of the dystrophin protein. Typical pathological features …

[HTML][HTML] Therapeutic strategies for dystrophin replacement in Duchenne muscular dystrophy

C Happi Mbakam, G Lamothe, JP Tremblay - Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an X-linked hereditary disease characterized by
progressive muscle wasting due to modifications in the DMD gene (exon deletions …

Duchenne muscular dystrophy: Disease mechanism and therapeutic strategies

A Bez Batti Angulski, N Hosny, H Cohen… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a severe, progressive, and ultimately fatal disease
of skeletal muscle wasting, respiratory insufficiency, and cardiomyopathy. The identification …

Therapeutic strategies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy: an update

C Sun, L Shen, Z Zhang, X Xie - Genes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Neuromuscular disorders encompass a heterogeneous group of conditions that impair the
function of muscles, motor neurons, peripheral nerves, and neuromuscular junctions. Being …

Therapeutic approaches for Duchenne muscular dystrophy

TC Roberts, MJA Wood, KE Davies - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2023 - nature.com
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a monogenic muscle-wasting disorder and a
priority candidate for molecular and cellular therapeutics. Although rare, it is the most …

New therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy: challenges, prospects and clinical trials

G Cossu, M Sampaolesi - Trends in molecular medicine, 2007 - cell.com
Muscular dystrophies primarily affect skeletal muscle. Mutations in a large number of genes,
mainly encoding cytoskeletal proteins, cause different forms of dystrophy that compromise …

Duchenne muscular dystrophy and dystrophin: Pathogenesis and opportunities for treatment: Third in molecular medicine review series

KJ Nowak, KE Davies - EMBO reports, 2004 - embopress.org
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is caused by mutations in the gene that encodes the
427‐kDa cytoskeletal protein dystrophin. Increased knowledge of the function of dystrophin …