Patient pathways for rare diseases in Europe: ataxia as an example
Background Progressive ataxias are rare and complex neurological disorders that represent a challenge for the clinicians to diagnose and manage them.
Julie Vallortigara +9 more
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Pharmacological screening using an FXN-EGFP cellular genomic reporter assay for the therapy of Friedreich ataxia [PDF]
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Martin B Delatycki +20 more
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Somatic instability of the expanded GAA triplet-repeat sequence in Friedreich ataxia progresses throughout life [PDF]
Friedreich ataxia (FRDA) patients are homozygous for expanded GAA triplet-repeat alleles in the FXN gene. Primary neurodegeneration involving the dorsal root ganglia (DRG) results in progressive ataxia.
Ramussen, A +29 more
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Epigenetic-based therapies for Friedreich ataxia [PDF]
This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.Friedreich ataxia (FRDA) is a lethal autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disorder caused primarily by a homozygous GAA repeat expansion mutation within the first intron
Madhavi Sandi +14 more
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The ataxia (axJ) mutation causes abnormal GABAA receptor turnover in mice [PDF]
Ataxia represents a pathological coordination failure that often involves functional disturbances in cerebellar circuits. Purkinje cells (PCs) characterize the only output neurons of the cerebellar cortex and critically participate in regulating motor ...
Kneussel Matthias +43 more
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Ataxia telangiectasia: a review
Definition of the disease Ataxia telangiectasia (A-T) is an autosomal recessive disorder primarily characterized by cerebellar degeneration, telangiectasia, immunodeficiency, cancer susceptibility and radiation sensitivity.
Cynthia Rothblum-Oviatt +5 more
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Prolonged treatment with pimelic o-aminobenzamide HDAC inhibitors ameliorates the disease phenotype of a Friedreich ataxia mouse model [PDF]
NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Neurobiology of Disease. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control ...
Ezzatizadeh, V +26 more
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Genotype and phenotype characterisation of Friedreich ataxia mouse models and cells [PDF]
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel UniversityFriedreich ataxia (FRDA) is an autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disorder, caused by a GAA repeat expansion mutation within intron 1 of the FXN gene ...
Anjomani Virmouni, Sara
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Longitudinal Assessment Using Optical Coherence Tomography in Patients with Friedreich’s Ataxia
Ocular abnormalities occur frequently in Friedreich’s ataxia (FRDA), although visual symptoms are not always reported. We evaluated a cohort of patients with FRDA to characterise the clinical phenotype and optic nerve findings as detected with optical ...
Petya Bogdanova-Mihaylova +6 more
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Interferon gamma upregulates frataxin and corrects the functional deficits in a Friedreich ataxia model [PDF]
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