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Biomarkers in spinal muscular atrophy [PDF]
Frontiers in NeurologySpinal muscular atrophy is a hereditary disorder leading to severe neuromuscular impairment. With the introduction of disease-modifying therapies in recent years, the role of biomarkers has expanded from aiding diagnosis to monitoring treatment responses,
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Protective Effect of Delta-Like 1 Homolog Against Muscular Atrophy in a Mouse Model [PDF]
Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2022 Background Muscle atrophy is caused by an imbalance between muscle growth and wasting. Delta-like 1 homolog (DLK1), a protein that modulates adipogenesis and muscle development, is a crucial regulator of myogenic programming.
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Advances and limitations for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy
BMC Pediatrics, 2022 Spinal muscular atrophy (5q-SMA; SMA), a genetic neuromuscular condition affecting spinal motor neurons, is caused by defects in both copies of the SMN1 gene that produces survival motor neuron (SMN) protein.
John W. Day +6 more
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Managing pregnancy in a spinal muscular atrophy type III patient in Indonesia: a case report
Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2022 Background Spinal muscular atrophy is a genetic disorder characterized by degeneration of lower motor neurons, leading to progressive muscular atrophy and even paralysis.
Cempaka Thursina Srie Setyaningrum +4 more
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Journal of Children's Orthopaedics, 2022 Purpose: The aim of this article was to compare longitudinal changes in hip morphology in cerebral palsy (hypertonic) and spinal muscular atrophy (hypotonic) to examine the influence of muscle tone on development of hip displacement.
Armagan Can Ulusaloglu +5 more
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Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2022 Background Spinal muscular atrophy is a recessively inherited autosomal neuromuscular disorder, with characteristic progressive muscle weakness. Most spinal muscular atrophy cases clinically manifest during infancy or childhood, although it may first ...
Cempaka Thursina Srie Setyaningrum +6 more
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Diabetic Muscular Atrophy: Molecular Mechanisms and Promising Therapies
Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2022 Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a typical chronic disease that can be divided into 2 types, dependent on insulin deficiency or insulin resistance. Incidences of diabetic complications gradually increase as the disease progresses.
Yuntian Shen +12 more
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Neural Regeneration Research, 2021 Infantile-onset spinal muscular atrophy is the quintessential example of a disorder characterized by a predominantly neurodegenerative phenotype that nevertheless stems from perturbations in a housekeeping protein.
Kishore Gollapalli +2 more
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Oral risdiplam for specific therapy in adult patients with 5q spinal muscular atrophy in the Moscow region [PDF]
Анналы клинической и экспериментальной неврологии, 2023 5q spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a rare autosomal recessive neuromuscular disease characterized by gradual loss of motor neurons with progressive muscle weakness and atrophy.
Ekaterina S. Novikova
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The social-economic burden of spinal muscular atrophy in Russia
Фармакоэкономика, 2021 Introduction. Spinal muscular atrophies (SMA) are clinically and genetically heterogeneous congenital orphan diseases that lead to progressive spinal motoneurons degeneration and loss of their function. There are 4 types of SMA with type I being the most
A. S. Kolbin +7 more
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