High Expression Level of Tra2-β1 Is Responsible for Increased SMN2 Exon 7 Inclusion in the Testis of SMA Mice

YC Chen, JG Chang, YJ Jong, TY Liu, CY Yuo - PLoS One, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an inherited neuromuscular disease caused by deletion or
mutation of SMN1 gene. All SMA patients carry a nearly identical SMN2 gene, which …

[PDF][PDF] SMA screening system using dried blood spots on filter paper: application of COP-PCR to the SMN1 deletion test

N Kato - 2015 - da.lib.kobe-u.ac.jp
[緒言] 脊髄性筋萎縮症 (Spinal muscular atrophy, SMA) は, 脊髄前角細胞の変性・脱落に
ともない, 体幹・四肢近位部優位の進行性の筋緊張低下・萎縮を生じる遺伝性運動ニューロン病の一 …

Clinical experience of nusinersen in a broad spectrum of spinal muscular atrophy: a retrospective study

AR Kim, JM Lee, YS Min, H Lee, D Kim… - Annals of Indian …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Background: Nusinersen has recently been approved and more widely used as first-line
treatment of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). This study aimed to evaluate the real-world …

[HTML][HTML] Spinal muscular atrophy: New screening system with real-time mCOP-PCR and PCR-RFLP for SMN1 deletion

ETE Niba, MA Rochmah, NIF Harahap… - Kobe Journal of …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
BACKGROUND Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is a common autosomal recessive
neuromuscular disorder characterized by degeneration or loss of lower motor neurons. More …

Application of a Multiplex Ligation-Dependent Probe Amplification-Based Next-Generation Sequencing Approach for the Detection of Pathogenesis of Duchenne …

Y Yang, C Xia, X Song, X Tang, X Nie, W Xu, C Du… - Molecular …, 2024 - Springer
Both Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD; OMIM no. 310200) and spinal muscular atrophy
(SMA; OMIM no. 253300/253550/253400/271150) are genetic disorders characterized by …

Gene therapy: a promising approach to treating spinal muscular atrophy

PJ Mulcahy, K Iremonger, E Karyka… - Human gene …, 2014 - liebertpub.com
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a severe autosomal recessive disease caused by a
genetic defect in the survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene, which encodes SMN, a protein …

[HTML][HTML] Salbutamol inhibits ubiquitin-mediated survival motor neuron protein degradation in spinal muscular atrophy cells

NIF Harahap, DK Nurputra, MA Rochmah… - … and Biophysics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a common autosomal recessive neuromuscular disorder
that is currently incurable. SMA is caused by decreased levels of the survival motor neuron …

Alternative splicing of a cryptic exon embedded in intron 6 of SMN1 and SMN2

S Yoshimoto, NIF Harahap, Y Hamamura… - Human Genome …, 2016 - nature.com
Both survival of motor neuron (SMN) genes are associated with spinal muscular atrophy;
mutations in SMN1 cause the disease, and SMN2 modulates its severity. It is established …

Transcript, methylation and molecular docking analyses of the effects of HDAC inhibitors, SAHA and Dacinostat, on SMN2 expression in fibroblasts of SMA patients

J Mohseni, BO Al-Najjar, HA Wahab… - Journal of human …, 2016 - nature.com
Several histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACis) are known to increase Survival Motor
Neuron 2 (SMN2) expression for the therapy of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). We aimed to …

New routes in frontotemporal dementia drug discovery

L De Conti, B Borroni, M Baralle - Expert Opinion on Drug …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Research into the pathogenic mechanisms behind frontotemporal dementia
(FTD) has yielded several new targets for therapeutic intervention; such targets include …