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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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Regulation of the dystrophin-associated glycoprotein complex composition by the metabolic properties of muscle fibres.

TL;DR: The study reveals that the levels of DGC proteins at the sarcolemma differ in highly glycolytic muscle compared to wild-type and that these changes can be normalised by the super-imposition of an oxidative metabolic programme.
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A Theranostic “SMART” Aptamer for Targeted Therapy of Prostate Cancer

TL;DR: In this paper, a nucleic acid aptamer has been used to target prostate cancer cells (prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) in clinical practice to inhibit tumor cell growth and invasion while sparing the surrounding normal cells.
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Cationic polyelectrolyte-mediated delivery of antisense morpholino oligonucleotides for exon-skipping in vitro and in mdx mice

TL;DR: The increased efficiency and lower toxicity show this PDDAC series to be capable gene/antisense oligonucleotide delivery-enhancing agents for treating muscular dystrophy and other diseases.
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Design and Application of Bispecific Splice-Switching Oligonucleotides

TL;DR: A protocol for solid-phase synthesis of single molecule cleavable bispecific SSOs that can be efficiently exploited for targeting of multiple RNA transcripts is developed.
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Low dystrophin levels are insufficient to normalize the neuromuscular synaptic abnormalities of mdx mice

TL;DR: The minimal dystrophin level required for normal NMJ function and morphology lies between 19% and 50% of normal when expression of dystophin is not uniform, as investigated of a series of mdx-XistΔhs mice.
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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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