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Exon skipping and dystrophin restoration in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy after systemic phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomer treatment: an open-label, phase 2, dose-escalation study.

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The safety and biochemical efficacy presented show the potential of AVI-4658 to become a disease-modifying drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2011-08-13 and is currently open access. It has received 847 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Duchenne muscular dystrophy & Drisapersen.

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Dystrophin levels and clinical severity in Becker muscular dystrophy patients

TL;DR: Dystrophin levels appear not to be a major determinant of disease severity in BMD, as long as it is above approximately 10%, which suggests that the disease course depends more on the mutation site than on the amount of the dystrophic protein produced.
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Spell Checking Nature: Versatility of CRISPR/Cas9 for Developing Treatments for Inherited Disorders

TL;DR: It is shown that an adapted version of CRISPR/Cas9 increases the amount of utrophin, a known disease modifier in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), and a previously undescribed approach involving single guide RNA is successfully removed large genome rearrangement in primary cells of an individual with an X chromosome duplication including MECP2.
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What Can We Learn From Clinical Trials of Exon Skipping for DMD

TL;DR: The clinical trial results and the FDA's view of the relationship between the dystrophin biomarker and functional endpoint of 6MWT in clinic will have a far reaching impact beyond exon skipping therapy in DMD.
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Low dystrophin levels increase survival and improve muscle pathology and function in dystrophin/utrophin double-knockout mice

TL;DR: It is suggested that the dystrophin levels needed to benefit vitality and functioning of patients with DMD might be lower than those needed for full protection against muscle damage.
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Dystrophin: The protein product of the duchenne muscular dystrophy locus

TL;DR: The identification of the mdx mouse as an animal model for DMD has important implications with regard to the etiology of the lethal DMD phenotype, and the protein dystrophin is named because of its identification via the isolation of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy locus.
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Local Dystrophin Restoration with Antisense Oligonucleotide PRO051

TL;DR: Intramuscular injection of antisense oligonucleotide PRO051 induced dystrophin synthesis in four patients with Duchenne's muscular dystrophy who had suitable mutations, suggesting that further studies might be feasible.
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