Medical research
Promising new therapy spares muscle loss in Duchenne muscular dystrophy
A promising therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) developed by University at Buffalo researchers is moving closer to use in humans.
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Medical research
A golden ticket to faster muscle recovery
Anyone who has ever torn or injured a muscle knows that swelling, redness, and pain soon follow the injury: classic signs of inflammation. Inflammation is the body's natural response to promote healing, but prolonged, excess ...
Oct 1, 2018
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Extracellular RNA in urine may provide useful biomarkers for muscular dystrophy
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers have found that extracellular RNA (exRNA) in urine may be a source of biomarkers for the two most common forms of muscular dystrophy, noninvasively providing information about ...
Sep 25, 2018
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Genetics
Investigational steroid mirrors prednisone's benefits while taming its side effects
A head-to-head trial comparing the decades-old steroid, prednisone, and a promising new steroid, vamorolone, finds both act on the same key set of genetic pathways involved in controlling inflammation, indicates a new study ...
Sep 20, 2018
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Genetics
Researchers correlate spinal muscular atrophy disease expression with haplotypes
A natural history study has provided the first comprehensive clinical description of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) within the Amish and Mennonite communities and correlates ancestral chromosome 5 haplotypes and SMN2 copy ...
Sep 6, 2018
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Scientists engineer way to prevent immune response to gene therapy in mice
Stanford University School of Medicine researchers have demonstrated that gene therapy can be effective without causing a dangerous side effect common to all gene therapy: an autoimmune reaction to the normal protein, which ...
Sep 3, 2018
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CRISPR halts Duchenne muscular dystrophy progression in dogs
Scientists for the first time have used CRISPR gene editing to halt the progression of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in a large mammal, according to a study by UT Southwestern that provides a strong indication that a ...
Aug 30, 2018
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Neuroscience
Spinal muscular atrophy drug may be effective if started later than previously shown
A drug shown to be effective in the treatment of babies with the rare muscle-wasting disease spinal muscular atrophy may be effective for muscle control even when treatment is started in children seven months and older, according ...
Aug 29, 2018
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Medical research
Diseased heart muscle cells have abnormally shortened telomeres, researchers find
People with a form of heart disease called cardiomyopathy have abnormally short telomeres in heart muscle cells responsible for contraction, according to a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Aug 27, 2018
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Stabilizing dysferlin-deficient muscle cell membrane improves muscle function
Healthy muscle cells rely on the protein dysferlin to properly repair the sarcolemmal membrane, a thin specialized membrane that serves a vital role in ensuring that muscle fibers are strong enough and have the necessary ...
Aug 27, 2018
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