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Proxy-Reported Quality of Life and Access to Nusinersen Among Patients with Spinal Muscular Atrophy in Saudi Arabia

open access: yesPatient Preference and Adherence, 2021
Yazed AlRuthia,1,2 Ghadah S Almuaythir,1 Hala H Alrasheed,1 Wejdan R Alsharif,1 Mohamad-Hani Temsah,3,4 Fahad Alsohime,3,4 Ibrahim Sales,1 Monira Alwhaibi,1 Fahad A Bashiri3,5 1Department of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University ...
AlRuthia Y   +8 more
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Assessment of motor function and nutritional status in children with spinal muscular atrophy treated with nusinersen after loading period in Western China: a retrospective study

open access: yesBMC Neurology, 2023
Background Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a progressive degenerative neuromuscular disease. Nusinersen, with its quick onset of action, can benefit patients early in the treatment course.
Hua Yang   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cerebrospinal Fluid Parameters in Antisense Oligonucleotide-Treated Adult 5q-Spinal Muscular Atrophy Patients

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2021
Approval of nusinersen, an intrathecally administered antisense oligonucleotide, for the treatment of 5q-spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) marked the beginning of a new therapeutic era in neurological diseases.
Lars Hendrik Müschen   +15 more
doaj   +1 more source

Clinical impact of splicing in neurodevelopmental disorders. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Clinical exome sequencing is frequently used to identify gene-disrupting variants in individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders. While splice-disrupting variants are known to contribute to these disorders, clinical interpretation of cryptic splice ...
Farh, Kyle Kai-How   +2 more
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Clinical experience of nusinersen in a broad spectrum of spinal muscular atrophy: A retrospective study

open access: yesAnnals of Indian Academy of Neurology, 2020
Background: Nusinersen has recently been approved and more widely used as first-line treatment of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). This study aimed to evaluate the real-world experience of nusinersen use for patients with a broad spectrum of SMA.
Ae Ryoung Kim   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Restoration of Nusinersen Levels Following Treatment Interruption in People With Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Simulations Based on a Population Pharmacokinetic Model [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Background: Nusinersen is approved for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy. The most common approved dosing regimen is four intrathecal loading doses of nusinersen 12 mg; the first three are administered at 14-day intervals followed by a fourth dose
Berger, Zdenek   +9 more
core   +1 more source

The Expanding Landscape of Alternative Splicing Variation in Human Populations. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Alternative splicing is a tightly regulated biological process by which the number of gene products for any given gene can be greatly expanded. Genomic variants in splicing regulatory sequences can disrupt splicing and cause disease.
Lin, Lan   +4 more
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Nusinersen mitigates neuroinflammation in severe spinal muscular atrophy patients

open access: yesCommunications Medicine, 2023
Nuzzo, Russo, Errico, D’Amico et al. investigate neuroinflammation in forty-eight pediatric spinal muscular atrophy patients before and after Nusinersen treatment.
Tommaso Nuzzo   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment of Bulbar Function in Adult Patients with 5q-SMA Type 2 and 3 under Treatment with Nusinersen

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2021
The antisense oligonucleotide nusinersen has been shown to improve trunk and limb motor function in patients with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Bulbar dysfunction, which is regularly present in SMA, is not captured by standard motor scores, and ...
Svenja Brakemeier   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gapmer Antisense Oligonucleotides Suppress the Mutant Allele of COL6A3 and Restore Functional Protein in Ullrich Muscular Dystrophy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Dominant-negative mutations in the genes that encode the three major a chains of collagen type VI, COL6A1, COL6A2, and COL6A3, account for more than 50% of Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy patients and nearly all Bethlem myopathy patients ...
Ala, P, Marrosu, E, Muntoni, F, Zhou, H
core   +2 more sources

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