Cardiac pathophysiology and the future of cardiac therapies in Duchenne muscular dystrophy

TA Meyers, DW Townsend - International journal of molecular sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a devastating disease featuring skeletal muscle
wasting, respiratory insufficiency, and cardiomyopathy. Historically, respiratory failure has …

Multiple exon skipping in the Duchenne muscular dystrophy hot spots: prospects and challenges

Y Echigoya, KRQ Lim, A Nakamura… - Journal of personalized …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a fatal X-linked recessive disorder, is caused mostly
by frame-disrupting, out-of-frame deletions in the dystrophin (DMD) gene. Antisense …

CRISPR-induced deletion with SaCas9 restores dystrophin expression in dystrophic models in vitro and in vivo

BL Duchêne, K Cherif, JP Iyombe-Engembe, A Guyon… - Molecular Therapy, 2018 - cell.com
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a severe hereditary disease affecting 1 in 3,500 boys,
mainly results from the deletion of exon (s), leading to a reading frameshift of the DMD gene …

Precision medicine through antisense oligonucleotide-mediated exon skipping

D Li, FL Mastaglia, S Fletcher, SD Wilton - Trends in Pharmacological …, 2018 - cell.com
Clinical implementation of two recently approved antisense RNA therapeutics–Exondys51®
to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Duchenne MD) and Spinraza® as a treatment for …

Antisense oligonucleotides and their applications in rare neurological diseases

S McDowall, M Aung-Htut, S Wilton, D Li - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Rare diseases affect almost 500 million people globally, predominantly impacting children
and often leading to significantly impaired quality of life and high treatment costs. While …

Spectrum of genetic variants in the dystrophin gene: A single centre retrospective analysis of 750 Duchenne and Becker patients from southern Italy

E Viggiano, E Picillo, L Passamano, ME Onore… - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Dystrophinopathies are X-linked recessive muscle disorders caused by mutations in the
dystrophin (DMD) gene that include deletions, duplications, and point mutations. Correct …

Genotype–phenotype correlations in Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy patients from the Canadian neuromuscular disease registry

KRQ Lim, Q Nguyen, T Yokota - Journal of Personalized Medicine, 2020 - mdpi.com
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a fatal neuromuscular disorder generally caused by
out-of-frame mutations in the DMD gene. In contrast, in-frame mutations usually give rise to …

[HTML][HTML] Dystrophin and the two related genetic diseases, Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies

E Le Rumeur - Bosnian journal of basic medical sciences, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Mutations of the dystrophin DMD gene, essentially deletions of one or several exons, are the
cause of two devastating and to date incurable diseases, Duchenne (DMD) and Becker …

Cardiac therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy

MNA Shah, T Yokota - Therapeutic Advances in …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a devastating disease that results in life-limiting
complications such as loss of skeletal muscle function as well as respiratory and cardiac …

Comparison of the phenotypes of patients harboring in-frame deletions starting at exon 45 in the Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene indicates potential for the …

A Nakamura, N Shiba, D Miyazaki… - Journal of human …, 2017 - nature.com
Exon skipping therapy has recently received attention for its ability to convert the phenotype
of lethal Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) to a more benign form, Becker muscular …