Adeno-associated virus as a delivery vector for gene therapy of human diseases

JH Wang, DJ Gessler, W Zhan, TL Gallagher… - Signal Transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
Adeno-associated virus (AAV) has emerged as a pivotal delivery tool in clinical gene
therapy owing to its minimal pathogenicity and ability to establish long-term gene expression …

Recent trends in antisense therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy

H Wilton-Clark, T Yokota - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a debilitating and fatal genetic disease affecting
1/5000 boys globally, characterized by progressive muscle breakdown and eventual death …

Advances in CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing for the treatment of muscular dystrophies

S Fatehi, RM Marks, MJ Rok, L Perillat… - Human Gene …, 2023 - liebertpub.com
Muscular dystrophies (MDs) comprise a diverse group of inherited disorders characterized
by progressive muscle loss and weakness. Given the genetic etiology underlying MDs …

Recent progress and challenges in the development of antisense therapies for myotonic dystrophy type 1

T De Serres-Bérard, S Ait Benichou, D Jauvin… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is a dominant genetic disease in which the expansion of
long CTG trinucleotides in the 3′ UTR of the myotonic dystrophy protein kinase (DMPK) …

The future of exon skipping for Duchenne muscular dystrophy

A Aartsma-Rus - Human Gene Therapy, 2023 - liebertpub.com
Antisense oligonucleotide (ASO)-mediated exon skipping can restore the open reading
frame of dystrophin transcripts for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) patients. This …

Gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy: an update on the latest clinical developments

C Happi Mbakam, JP Tremblay - Expert Review of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is one of the most severe and devastating
neuromuscular hereditary diseases with a male newborn incidence of 20 000 cases each …

Cardiac therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy

MNA Shah, T Yokota - Therapeutic Advances in …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a devastating disease that results in life-limiting
complications such as loss of skeletal muscle function as well as respiratory and cardiac …

Persistence of exon 2 skipping and dystrophin expression at 18 months after U7snRNA-mediated therapy in the Dup2 mouse model

LV Gushchina, AJ Bradley, TA Vetter, JW Lay… - … Therapy-Methods & …, 2023 - cell.com
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a progressive X-linked disease caused by
mutations in the DMD gene that prevent the expression of a functional dystrophin protein …

Optimization strategies and advances in the research and development of AAV‐based gene therapy to deliver large transgenes

VV Kolesnik, RF Nurtdinov… - Clinical and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Adeno‐associated virus (AAV)‐based therapies are recognized as one of the most
potent next‐generation treatments for inherited and genetic diseases. However, several …

Therapeutic targeting of RNA for neurological and neuromuscular disease

JL Bubenik, MM Scotti, MS Swanson - Genes & Development, 2024 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Neurological and neuromuscular diseases resulting from familial, sporadic, or de novo
mutations have devasting personal, familial, and societal impacts. As the initial product of …