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 …

[HTML][HTML] Dilated cardiomyopathy in the era of precision medicine: latest concepts and developments

N Orphanou, E Papatheodorou, A Anastasakis - Heart failure reviews, 2022 - Springer
Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is an umbrella term entailing a wide variety of genetic and
non-genetic etiologies, leading to left ventricular systolic dysfunction and dilatation, not …

Gene editing restores dystrophin expression in a canine model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy

L Amoasii, JCW Hildyard, H Li, E Sanchez-Ortiz… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Mutations in the gene encoding dystrophin, a protein that maintains muscle integrity and
function, cause Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The deltaE50-MD dog model of DMD …

Correction of diverse muscular dystrophy mutations in human engineered heart muscle by single-site genome editing

C Long, H Li, M Tiburcy, C Rodriguez-Caycedo… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Genome editing with CRISPR/Cas9 is a promising new approach for correcting or mitigating
disease-causing mutations. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is associated with lethal …

Somatic gene editing ameliorates skeletal and cardiac muscle failure in pig and human models of Duchenne muscular dystrophy

A Moretti, L Fonteyne, F Giesert, P Hoppmann… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Frameshift mutations in the DMD gene, encoding dystrophin, cause Duchenne muscular
dystrophy (DMD), leading to terminal muscle and heart failure in patients. Somatic gene …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient precise in vivo base editing in adult dystrophic mice

L Xu, C Zhang, H Li, P Wang, Y Gao… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Recent advances in base editing have created an exciting opportunity to precisely correct
disease-causing mutations. However, the large size of base editors and their inherited off …

[HTML][HTML] Correction of muscular dystrophies by CRISPR gene editing

F Chemello, R Bassel-Duby… - The Journal of clinical …, 2020 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Muscular dystrophies are debilitating disorders that result in progressive weakness and
degeneration of skeletal muscle. Although the genetic mutations and clinical abnormalities …

In vivo delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing components for therapeutic applications

K Huang, D Zapata, Y Tang, Y Teng, Y Li - Biomaterials, 2022 - Elsevier
Since its mechanism discovery in 2012 and the first application for mammalian genome
editing in 2013, CRISPR-Cas9 has revolutionized the genome engineering field and created …

[HTML][HTML] In vivo genome editing in animals using AAV-CRISPR system: applications to translational research of human disease

CH Lau, Y Suh - F1000Research, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Adeno-associated virus (AAV) has shown promising therapeutic efficacy with a good safety
profile in a wide range of animal models and human clinical trials. With the advent of …

[HTML][HTML] Muscle and cardiac therapeutic strategies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy: past, present, and future

A Łoboda, J Dulak - Pharmacological Reports, 2020 - Springer
Background Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a severe X-linked neuromuscular
childhood disorder that causes progressive muscle weakness and degeneration and results …