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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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FDA-Approved Oligonucleotide Therapies in 2017

TL;DR: Of all the molecules evaluated as of January 2017, the regulatory authorities assessed that six provided clear clinical benefit in rigorously controlled trials and the story of these six is given in this review.
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RNA-Targeted Therapeutics.

TL;DR: RNA-targeted therapies represent a platform for drug discovery involving chemically modified oligonucleotides, a wide range of cellular RNAs, and a novel target-binding motif, Watson-Crick base pairing, which is efficient and supports approaching "undruggable" targets.
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Eteplirsen in the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy

TL;DR: Eteplirsen is a drug that acts to promote dystrophin production by restoring the translational reading frame of DMD through specific skipping of exon 51 in defective gene variants, which is applicable for approximately 14% of patients with DMD mutations.
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Antisense oligonucleotides: the next frontier for treatment of neurological disorders

TL;DR: With the rapid development of improved next-generation ASOs toward clinical application, this technology now holds the potential to have a dramatic effect on the treatment of many neurological conditions in the near future.
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The genetic landscape of the epileptic encephalopathies of infancy and childhood

TL;DR: Gene discovery provides the basis for neurobiological insights, often showing convergence of mechanistic pathways that underpin the development of targeted therapies, which are essential to improve the outcome of these devastating disorders.
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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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