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The muscular dystrophies [PDF]

open access: yesPostgraduate Medical Journal, 1992
In 1879 William Gowers, the eminent British neurologist, painted a remarkably lucid word picture of Duchenne muscular dystrophy in his series of lectures on pseudohypertrophic muscular paralysis, published in the Lancet.' This disease, he said, is one of the most interesting, and at the same time most sad, of all those with which we have to deal ...
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Tween 85-Modified Low Molecular Weight PEI Enhances Exon-Skipping of Antisense Morpholino Oligomer In Vitro and in mdx Mice

open access: yesMolecular Therapy: Nucleic Acids, 2017
We investigated a series of Tween 85 modified low molecular weight polyethylenimine (LPEI, 0.8k/1.2k/2.0k)-copolymers (Zs) through simple formulation and covalent conjugation with phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomer (PMO) for their potential to ...
Mingxing Wang   +6 more
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ISPD Overexpression Enhances Ribitol-Induced Glycosylation of α-Dystroglycan in Dystrophic FKRP Mutant Mice

open access: yesMolecular Therapy: Methods & Clinical Development, 2020
Dystroglycanopathy, a subgroup of muscular dystrophies, is characterized by hypoglycosylation of α-dystroglycan (α-DG), which reduces its laminin-binding activity to extracellular matrix proteins, causing progressive loss of muscle integrity and function.
Marcela P. Cataldi   +4 more
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Poly(ester amine) Composed of Polyethylenimine and Pluronic Enhance Delivery of Antisense Oligonucleotides In Vitro and in Dystrophic mdx Mice

open access: yesMolecular Therapy: Nucleic Acids, 2016
A series of poly(esteramine)s (PEAs) constructed from low molecular weight polyethyleneimine (LPEI) and Pluronic were evaluated for the delivery of antisense oligonuclotides (AOs), 2′-O-methyl phosphorothioate RNA (2′-OMePS) and phosphorodiamidate ...
Mingxing Wang   +5 more
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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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Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy [PDF]

open access: yesNeurologic Clinics, 2014
This article describes the clinical characteristics, diagnosis, molecular pathogenesis, and treatment of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD).FSHD comprises two genetically distinct types that converge on a common downstream pathway of the expression of the toxic protein DUX4.
Jeffrey, Statland, Rabi, Tawil
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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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How Can a Clinical Data Modelling Tool Be Used to Represent Data Items of Relevance to Paediatric Clinical Trials? Learning from the Conect4children (c4c) Consortium

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2022
Data dictionaries for clinical trials are often created manually, with data structures and controlled vocabularies specific for a trial or family of trials within a sponsor’s portfolio.
Chima Amadi   +7 more
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Exome sequences versus sequential gene testing in the UK highly specialised Service for Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy

open access: yesOrphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 2017
Background Limb girdle muscular dystrophies are a group of rare and genetically heterogeneous diseases that share proximal weakness as a common feature; however they are often lacking very specific phenotypic features to allow an accurate differential ...
Elizabeth Harris   +16 more
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Development of a Clinical Global Impression of Change (CGI-C) and a Caregiver Global Impression of Change (CaGI-C) measure for ambulant individuals with Duchenne muscular dystrophy

open access: yesHealth and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2021
Background In clinical trials for rare diseases, such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy, clinical outcome assessments (COA) used to assess treatment benefit are often generic and may not be sensitive enough to detect change in specific patient populations ...
Hannah Staunton   +7 more
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