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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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194th ENMC international workshop. 3rd ENMC workshop on exon skipping: towards clinical application of antisense-mediated exon skipping for Duchenne muscular dystrophy 8-10 December 2012, Naarden, The Netherlands.

TL;DR: The topic of this workshop was on ‘Streamlining the development path of exon skipping compounds’ and followed the formula of similar workshops held in 2004 and 2007, which focused on intramuscular administration of antisense oligonucleotides.
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A novel splicing silencer generated by DMD exon 45 deletion junction could explain upstream exon 44 skipping that modifies dystrophinopathy

TL;DR: The junction sequence cloned by PCR walking abolished the splicing enhancer activity of the upstream intron in a chimeric doublesex gene pre-mRNA in vitro splicing and indicated that the junction sequence was a splicing silencer that induced upstream exon 44 skipping.
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Recent developments in the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy and spinal muscular atrophy

TL;DR: This work has shown that utilizing a probabilistic approach to treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy and spinal muscular atrophy is a viable option for both quality of life and life expectancy for affected individuals.
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The rapidly evolving state of gene therapy.

TL;DR: An overview of the state of gene therapy is provided by discussing where the field stands with respect to the different gene therapy vector platforms and the types of therapies that are available.
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A novel dysferlin mutant pseudoexon bypassed with antisense oligonucleotides

TL;DR: One family with one known mutant allele is studied to identify both the second underlying genetic defect and potential therapeutic approaches, and this work identified a potential therapeutic approach to treat Miyoshi myopathy.
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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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