Overturning the paradigm of spinal muscular atrophy as just a motor neuron disease

CJJ Yeo, BT Darras - Pediatric neurology, 2020 - Elsevier
Spinal muscular atrophy is typically characterized as a motor neuron disease. Untreated
patients with the most severe form, spinal muscular atrophy type 1, die early with infantile …

Mitochondrial dysfunction in spinal muscular atrophy

E Zilio, V Piano, B Wirth - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a devastating neuromuscular disorder caused by
recessive mutations in the SMN1 gene, globally affecting~ 8–14 newborns per 100,000. The …

Comparison of the efficacy of MOE and PMO modifications of systemic antisense oligonucleotides in a severe SMA mouse model

L Sheng, F Rigo, CF Bennett, AR Krainer… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a motor neuron disease. Nusinersen, a splice-switching
antisense oligonucleotide (ASO), was the first approved drug to treat SMA. Based on prior …

History of development of the life-saving drug “Nusinersen” in spinal muscular atrophy

J Qiu, L Wu, R Qu, T Jiang, J Bai, L Sheng… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an autosomal recessive disorder with an incidence of
1/6,000–1/10,000 and is the leading fatal disease among infants. Previously, there was no …

In search of a cure: the development of therapeutics to alter the progression of spinal muscular atrophy

KS Ojala, EJ Reedich, CJ DiDonato, SD Meriney - Brain Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Until the recent development of disease-modifying therapeutics, spinal muscular atrophy
(SMA) was considered a devastating neuromuscular disease with a poor prognosis for most …

Rescue of spinal muscular atrophy mouse models with AAV9-Exon-specific U1 snRNA

I Donadon, E Bussani, F Riccardi… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Spinal Muscular Atrophy results from loss-of-function mutations in SMN1 but
correcting aberrant splicing of SMN2 offers hope of a cure. However, current splice therapy …

Spinal Muscular Atrophy autophagy profile is tissue-dependent: differential regulation between muscle and motoneurons

A Sansa, I Hidalgo, MP Miralles, S de la Fuente… - Acta Neuropathologica …, 2021 - Springer
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a neuromuscular genetic disease caused by reduced
survival motor neuron (SMN) protein. SMN is ubiquitous and deficient levels cause spinal …

A severe mouse model of spinal muscular atrophy develops early systemic inflammation

B Wan, P Feng, Z Guan, L Sheng, Z Liu… - Human molecular …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a fatal genetic disease, mainly affecting children. A
number of recent studies show, aside from lower motor neuron degeneration and atrophy of …

Survivin is a prognostic indicator in glioblastoma and may be a target of microRNA‑218

X Tong, P Yang, K Wang, Y Liu, X Liu… - Oncology …, 2019 - spandidos-publications.com
Accumulating evidence has revealed that survivin expression is associated with a malignant
phenotype and poor prognosis in glioma. Survivin is also a potential target of microRNA …

Cytotoxic Effect of L-Methioninase from Brevibacterium linens BL2 in Combination with Etoposide against Glioblastoma Cells

SL İpek, MD Özdemir, D Göktürk - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
L-methioninase degrades methionine, which is essential in methionine-dependent cancer
cells, resulting in specific cell death. Normal cells can synthesize their own methionine …