RNA-based therapeutics for neurological diseases

K Anthony - RNA biology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT RNA-based therapeutics have entered the mainstream with seemingly limitless
possibilities to treat all categories of neurological disease. Here, common RNA-based drug …

[HTML][HTML] Antisense oligonucleotide-based therapy for neuromuscular disease

V Sardone, H Zhou, F Muntoni, A Ferlini, MS Falzarano - Molecules, 2017 - mdpi.com
Neuromuscular disorders such as Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and Spinal Muscular
Atrophy are neurodegenerative genetic diseases characterized primarily by muscle …

[HTML][HTML] Antisense oligonucleotides as a potential treatment for brain deficits observed in myotonic dystrophy type 1

S Ait Benichou, D Jauvin, T de Serres-Bérard, M Pierre… - Gene Therapy, 2022 - nature.com
Myotonic dystrophy, or dystrophia myotonica type 1 (DM1), is a multi-systemic disorder and
is the most common adult form of muscular dystrophy. It affects not only muscles but also …

[HTML][HTML] Myotonic dystrophies: state of the art of new therapeutic developments for the CNS

G Gourdon, G Meola - Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Myotonic dystrophies are multisystemic diseases characterized not only by muscle and heart
dysfunction but also by CNS alteration. They are now recognized as brain diseases affecting …

Efficient CRISPR/Cas9-mediated editing of trinucleotide repeat expansion in myotonic dystrophy patient-derived iPS and myogenic cells

S Dastidar, S Ardui, K Singh, D Majumdar… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
CRISPR/Cas9 is an attractive platform to potentially correct dominant genetic diseases by
gene editing with unprecedented precision. In the current proof-of-principle study, we …

Limb-girdle muscular dystrophies—international collaborations for translational research

R Thompson, V Straub - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2016 - nature.com
The limb-girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMDs) are a diverse group of genetic
neuromuscular conditions that usually manifest in the proximal muscles of the hip and …

Immortalized human myotonic dystrophy muscle cell lines to assess therapeutic compounds

L Arandel, M Polay Espinoza… - Disease models & …, 2017 - journals.biologists.com
ABSTRACT Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) and type 2 (DM2) are autosomal dominant
neuromuscular diseases caused by microsatellite expansions and belong to the family of …

Genome engineering: a new approach to gene therapy for neuromuscular disorders

CE Nelson, JN Robinson-Hamm… - Nature reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
For many neuromuscular disorders, including Duchenne muscular dystrophy, spinal
muscular atrophy and myotonic dystrophy, the genetic causes are well known. Gene therapy …

[HTML][HTML] Genome editing of expanded CTG repeats within the human DMPK gene reduces nuclear RNA foci in the muscle of DM1 mice

ML Scrudato, K Poulard, C Sourd, S Tomé, AF Klein… - Molecular Therapy, 2019 - cell.com
Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is caused by a CTG repeat expansion located in the 3′
UTR of the DMPK gene. Expanded DMPK transcripts aggregate into nuclear foci and alter …

An overview of recent advances and clinical applications of exon skipping and splice modulation for muscular dystrophy and various genetic diseases

M Rodrigues, T Yokota - Exon Skipping and Inclusion Therapies: Methods …, 2018 - Springer
Exon skipping is a therapeutic approach that is feasible for various genetic diseases and
has been studied and developed for over two decades. This approach uses antisense …