[HTML][HTML] Alternative splicing and cancer: a systematic review

Y Zhang, J Qian, C Gu, Y Yang - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2021 - nature.com
The abnormal regulation of alternative splicing is usually accompanied by the occurrence
and development of tumors, which would produce multiple different isoforms and diversify …

Spinal muscular atrophy—insights and challenges in the treatment era

E Mercuri, MC Pera, M Scoto, R Finkel… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an autosomal recessive motor neuron disease caused by
deletion or mutation of SMN1. Four subtypes exist, characterized by different clinical …

[HTML][HTML] New treatments in spinal muscular atrophy: positive results and new challenges

S Messina, M Sframeli - Journal of clinical medicine, 2020 - mdpi.com
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is one of the most common autosomal recessive diseases
with progressive weakness of skeletal and respiratory muscles, leading to significant …

Spinal muscular atrophy: mutations, testing, and clinical relevance

MC Keinath, DE Prior, TW Prior - The Application of Clinical …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a heritable neuromuscular disorder that causes
degeneration of the alpha motor neurons from anterior horn cells in the spinal cord, which …

Spinal muscular atrophy

S Nicolau, MA Waldrop, AM Connolly… - Seminars in pediatric …, 2021 - Elsevier
Spinal muscular atrophy is one of the most common neuromuscular disorders of childhood
and has high morbidity and mortality. Three different disease-modifying treatments were …

The first orally deliverable small molecule for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy

RN Singh, EW Ottesen, NN Singh - Neuroscience Insights, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is one of the leading causes of infant mortality. SMA is
mostly caused by low levels of Survival Motor Neuron (SMN) protein due to deletion of or …

[HTML][HTML] Current and future prospects for gene therapy for rare genetic diseases affecting the brain and spinal cord

TL Jensen, CR Gøtzsche… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, gene therapy has been raising hopes toward viable treatment strategies for
rare genetic diseases for which there has been almost exclusively supportive treatment. We …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental approaches for manipulating choroid plexus epithelial cells

A Jang, MK Lehtinen - Fluids and barriers of the CNS, 2022 - Springer
Choroid plexus (ChP) epithelial cells are crucial for the function of the blood-cerebrospinal
fluid barrier (BCSFB) in the developing and mature brain. The ChP is considered the primary …

[HTML][HTML] Gene therapy in ALS and SMA: advances, challenges and perspectives

J Lejman, K Panuciak, E Nowicka… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Gene therapy is defined as the administration of genetic material to modify, manipulate gene
expression or alter the properties of living cells for therapeutic purposes. Recent advances …

Mapping genetic effects on cellular phenotypes with “cell villages”

JM Mitchell, J Nemesh, S Ghosh, RE Handsaker… - Biorxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Tens of thousands of genetic variants shape human phenotypes, mostly by unknown cellular
mechanisms. Here we describe Census-seq, a way to measure cellular phenotypes in cells …