The first orally deliverable small molecule for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy

RN Singh, EW Ottesen, NN Singh - Neuroscience Insights, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is one of the leading causes of infant mortality. SMA is
mostly caused by low levels of Survival Motor Neuron (SMN) protein due to deletion of or …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Hepatotoxicity following administration of onasemnogene abeparvovec (AVXS-101) for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy

D Chand, F Mohr, H McMillan, FF Tukov… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background & Aims Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an autosomal recessive, childhood-
onset motor neuron disease. Onasemnogene abeparvovec (OA) is a gene therapy designed …

Onasemnogene abeparvovec gene therapy for symptomatic infantile-onset spinal muscular atrophy in patients with two copies of SMN2 (STR1VE): an open-label …

JW Day, RS Finkel, CA Chiriboga, AM Connolly… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Spinal muscular atrophy type 1 is a motor neuron disorder resulting in death or
the need for permanent ventilation by age 2 years. We aimed to evaluate the safety and …

Subacute liver failure following gene replacement therapy for spinal muscular atrophy type 1

AG Feldman, JA Parsons, CM Dutmer… - The Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Spinal muscular atrophy is a neurodegenerative disease resulting from irreversible loss of
anterior horn cells owing to biallelic deletions/mutations in the survival motor neuron (SMN) …

Curing SMA: Are we there yet?

A Reilly, L Chehade, R Kothary - Gene therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Loss or deletion of survival motor neuron 1 gene (SMN1) is causative for a severe and
devastating neuromuscular disease, Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). SMN1 produces SMN …

Expert recommendations and clinical considerations in the use of onasemnogene abeparvovec gene therapy for spinal muscular atrophy

EA Kichula, CM Proud, MA Farrar, JM Kwon… - Muscle & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an autosomal recessive, neurodegenerative disease
caused by biallelic mutations in the survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene. SMA is …

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 …

Onasemnogene abeparvovec in type 1 spinal muscular atrophy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

C Pascual-Morena, I Cavero-Redondo… - Human Gene …, 2023 - liebertpub.com
One of the latest approved therapies for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is onasemnogene
abeparvovec, which transduces motor neurons with the survival of motor neuron gene. The …

The need for SMN-independent treatments of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) to complement SMN-enhancing drugs

N Hensel, S Kubinski, P Claus - Frontiers in Neurology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is monogenic motoneuron disease caused by low levels of
the Survival of Motoneuron protein (SMN). Recently, two different drugs were approved for …