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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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Concise Review: Mesoangioblast and Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy for Muscular Dystrophy: Progress, Challenges, and Future Directions

TL;DR: The potential for systemic delivery of mesenchymal stem cells increases the feasibility of stem cell therapy for the large numbers of affected skeletal muscles in patients with muscular dystrophy.
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Allele-selective inhibition of trinucleotide repeat genes.

TL;DR: This work reviews approaches that use synthetic nucleic acids to inhibit expression of trinucleotide repeat genes and suggests strategies to lower levels of mutant protein while leaving adequate wild-type protein levels.
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Comparative Genomics of X-linked Muscular Dystrophies: The Golden Retriever Model.

TL;DR: The utility of comparative genomics in elucidating the complex background behind phenotypic variation in a canine model of DMD, Golden Retriever muscular dystrophy (GRMD), can be exploited in the development of improved, more personalized treatments for DMD patients.
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Targeting TGF-β Signaling by Antisense Oligonucleotide-mediated Knockdown of TGF-β Type I Receptor

TL;DR: A novel method to target TGF-β signaling cascades with potential beneficial effects for DMD is presented, which resulted in a decrease in expression of fibrosis-related genes and upregulation of Myog expression in dystrophic muscles.
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Targeted exon skipping to address “Leaky” mutations in the dystrophin gene

TL;DR: Oligomers targeting exon 8, that unequivocally increase dystrophin above baseline in vitro, are described and it is proposed that patients with leaky mutations are ideally suited for participation in antisense oligomer mediated splice-switching clinical studies.
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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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