Duchenne muscular dystrophy

D Duan, N Goemans, S Takeda, E Mercuri… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a severe, progressive, muscle-wasting disease that leads
to difficulties with movement and, eventually, to the need for assisted ventilation and …

Therapeutic antisense oligonucleotides are coming of age

CF Bennett - Annual review of medicine, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The first published description of therapeutic applications of antisense oligonucleotide
(ASO) technology occurred in the late 1970s and was followed by the founding of …

Dilated cardiomyopathy: genetic determinants and mechanisms

EM McNally, L Mestroni - Circulation research, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
Nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) often has a genetic pathogenesis. Because of
the large number of genes and alleles attributed to DCM, comprehensive genetic testing …

Emerging therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy

T Markati, M Oskoui, MA Farrar, T Duong… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is an X-linked disease caused by the absence of functional
dystrophin in the muscle cells. Major advances have led to the development of gene …

Antisense oligonucleotide-based treatment of retinitis pigmentosa caused by USH2A exon 13 mutations

K Dulla, R Slijkerman, HC van Diepen, S Albert… - Molecular Therapy, 2021 - cell.com
Mutations in USH2A are among the most common causes of syndromic and non-syndromic
retinitis pigmentosa (RP). The two most recurrent mutations in USH2A, c. 2299delG and c …

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 …

Development of exon skipping therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy: a critical review and a perspective on the outstanding issues

A Aartsma-Rus, V Straub, R Hemmings… - Nucleic acid …, 2017 - liebertpub.com
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a rare, severe, progressive muscle-wasting disease
leading to disability and premature death. Patients lack the muscle membrane-stabilizing …

Opportunities and challenges for antisense oligonucleotide therapies

EC Kuijper, AJ Bergsma… - Journal of inherited …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Antisense oligonucleotide (AON) therapies involve short strands of modified nucleotides that
target RNA in a sequence‐specific manner, inducing targeted protein knockdown or …

The clinical landscape for SMA in a new therapeutic era

K Talbot, EF Tizzano - Gene therapy, 2017 - nature.com
Despite significant advances in basic research, the treatment of degenerative diseases of
the nervous system remains one of the greatest challenges for translational medicine. The …

[HTML][HTML] Pharmacological advances for treatment in Duchenne muscular dystrophy

S Guiraud, KE Davies - Current opinion in pharmacology, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Numerous pathophysiological features of DMD provide different therapeutic
avenues.•Pharmacolougical therapies target all muscles and are applicable to all DMD …