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Duchenne muscular dystrophy [PDF]

open access: yesNature Reviews Disease Primers, 2021
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a severe, progressive, muscle-wasting disease that leads to difficulties with movement and, eventually, to the need for assisted ventilation and premature death. The disease is caused by mutations in DMD (encoding dystrophin) that abolish the production of dystrophin in muscle.
Dongsheng Duan   +4 more
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The achievement of Duchenne. [PDF]

open access: bronzeProceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1973
E. D. R. Campbell
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Duchenne expert physician perspectives on Duchenne newborn screening and early Duchenne care

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, 2022
AbstractDuchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a progressive, fatal neuromuscular disorder typically diagnosed between 4 and 5 years of age. DMD currently has five FDA approved therapies, which has led to increased interest in newborn screening (NBS) for DMD.
Niki Armstrong   +3 more
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Quantitative immuno-mass spectrometry imaging of skeletal muscle dystrophin

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Emerging and promising therapeutic interventions for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) are confounded by the challenges of quantifying dystrophin. Current approaches have poor precision, require large amounts of tissue, and are difficult to standardize ...
David P. Bishop   +10 more
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Unravelling the relation between altruistic cooperativeness trait, smiles, and cooperation: a mediation analysis

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
IntroductionHuman cooperativeness is an important personality trait. However, the mechanism through which people cooperate remains unclear. Previous research suggests that one of the proposed functions of smiling is to advertise altruistic dispositions ...
Xiaoqi Deng   +3 more
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Measuring carer quality of life in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: a systematic review of the reliability and validity of self-report instruments using COSMIN

open access: yesHealth and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2022
Introduction Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a rare, progressive, life-limiting genetic neuromuscular condition that significantly impacts the quality of life of informal caregivers. Carer quality of life is measured using heterogeneous self-report scales,
Jill Carlton   +2 more
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Duchenne muscular dystrophy [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ Case Reports, 2014
A 15-year-old boy presented with progressive proximal weakness of the lower limbs starting at 4 years of age followed by involvement of the upper limbs. He is the product of a consanguineous marriage; he had a family history of similar disease in a second-degree cousin and also had a history of delayed motor developmental milestones since birth ...
Rajeev Chauhan   +3 more
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Exhibition: Duchenne and Gachet [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ, 1999
“Duchenne de Boulogne: la mecanique des passions” is at the Ecole nationale superieure des Beaux-arts, Paris, until 4 April, and “Un ami de Cezanne et Van Gogh: le docteur Gachet” is at the Grand Palais, Paris, until 26 April Guillaume Duchenne, born in Boulogne in 1807, studied medicine in Paris and came under the spell of Laennec, Dupuytren, and ...
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Early detection of left ventricular involvement in patients with Duchenne’s and Becker’s muscular dystrophy

open access: yesAl-Azhar Assiut Medical Journal, 2019
Background Patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and Becker’s muscular dystrophy (BMD) may have asymptomatic cardiac involvement for years before the development of dilated cardiomyopathy and even showed normal conventional echocardiographic ...
Shaimaa A Habib, Mohie El Din T Mohamed
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Repurposing Dantrolene for Long-Term Combination Therapy to Potentiate Antisense-Mediated DMD Exon Skipping in the mdx Mouse

open access: yesMolecular Therapy: Nucleic Acids, 2018
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is caused by mutations in DMD, resulting in loss of dystrophin, which is essential to muscle health. DMD “exon skipping” uses anti-sense oligo-nucleotides (AONs) to force specific exon exclusion during mRNA processing to
Derek W. Wang   +8 more
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