scispace - formally typeset
Open AccessJournal ArticleDOI

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.

Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
The safety and biochemical efficacy presented show the potential of AVI-4658 to become a disease-modifying drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
About
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.

read more

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Viral Vector-Mediated Antisense Therapy for Genetic Diseases.

TL;DR: The different strategies for antisense therapy mediated by viral vectors are outlined and examples of each approach are provided and the advantages and limitations of viral vector use are addressed, with an emphasis on their clinical application.
Journal ArticleDOI

Gene therapy for inherited muscle diseases: where genetics meets rehabilitation medicine.

TL;DR: In this review, recent advances in the application of gene therapies to treat inherited muscle disorders are presented, including Duchenne muscular dystrophy and x-linked myotubular myopathy.
Journal ArticleDOI

Therapeutic Targeting of CD47 to Modulate Tissue Responses to Ischemia and Radiation

TL;DR: Treatment with the CD47 morpholino protects mice from major effects of ionizing radiation including alopecia, deterioration of muscle function, soft tissue and cutaneous fibrosis, and loss of hematopoietic stem cells in bone marrow and does not protect tumors but instead enhances their ablation by irradiation.
Journal ArticleDOI

Skeletal muscle involvement in cardiomyopathies.

TL;DR: Paediatric and adult cardiologists should be proactive in screening for neuromuscular and related disorders to enable diagnosis in probands and evaluation of families with a focus on the identification of those at risk of cardiac arrhythmia and emboli who may require specific prophylactic treatments.
Journal ArticleDOI

Targeting Nrf2 for the treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

TL;DR: Unlike other strategies, targeted Nrf2 activation has the potential to simultaneously modulate separate pathological features of DMD to amplify therapeutic benefits.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

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.
Journal ArticleDOI

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.
Related Papers (5)