Duchenne muscular dystrophy

D Duan, N Goemans, S Takeda, E Mercuri… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a severe, progressive, muscle-wasting disease that leads
to difficulties with movement and, eventually, to the need for assisted ventilation and …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in CRISPR therapeutics

M Chavez, X Chen, PB Finn, LS Qi - Nature Reviews Nephrology, 2023 - nature.com
The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) renaissance was
catalysed by the discovery that RNA-guided prokaryotic CRISPR-associated (Cas) proteins …

Gene editing restores dystrophin expression in a canine model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy

L Amoasii, JCW Hildyard, H Li, E Sanchez-Ortiz… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Mutations in the gene encoding dystrophin, a protein that maintains muscle integrity and
function, cause Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The deltaE50-MD dog model of DMD …

CRISPR-Cas9: a preclinical and clinical perspective for the treatment of human diseases

G Sharma, AR Sharma, M Bhattacharya, SS Lee… - Molecular Therapy, 2021 - cell.com
At present, the idea of genome modification has revolutionized the modern therapeutic
research era. Genome modification studies have traveled a long way from gene …

Delivering CRISPR: a review of the challenges and approaches

CA Lino, JC Harper, JP Carney, JA Timlin - Drug delivery, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Gene therapy has long held promise to correct a variety of human diseases and defects.
Discovery of the Clustered Regularly-Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR), the …

Therapeutic developments for Duchenne muscular dystrophy

IEC Verhaart, A Aartsma-Rus - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2019 - nature.com
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is caused by the lack of functional dystrophin protein.
Improvements in patient care and disease management have slowed down disease …

CRISPR-based technologies for the manipulation of eukaryotic genomes

AC Komor, AH Badran, DR Liu - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
The CRISPR-Cas9 RNA-guided DNA endonuclease has contributed to an explosion of
advances in the life sciences that have grown from the ability to edit genomes within living …

Applications of CRISPR technologies in research and beyond

R Barrangou, JA Doudna - Nature biotechnology, 2016 - nature.com
Programmable DNA cleavage using CRISPR–Cas9 enables efficient, site-specific genome
engineering in single cells and whole organisms. In the research arena, versatile CRISPR …

Therapeutic approaches for Duchenne muscular dystrophy

TC Roberts, MJA Wood, KE Davies - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2023 - nature.com
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a monogenic muscle-wasting disorder and a
priority candidate for molecular and cellular therapeutics. Although rare, it is the most …

In vivo genome editing improves muscle function in a mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy

CE Nelson, CH Hakim, DG Ousterout, PI Thakore… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a devastating disease affecting about 1 out of 5000
male births and caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene. Genome editing has the …