Combination Antisense Treatment for Destructive Exon Skipping of Myostatin and Open Reading Frame Rescue of Dystrophin in Neonatal mdx Mice.

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Published in Mol Ther on May 11, 2015

Authors

Ngoc B Lu-Nguyen1, Susan A Jarmin1, Amer F Saleh2, Linda Popplewell1, Michael J Gait3, George Dickson4

Author Affiliations

1: School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey, UK.
2: Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK; Current address: AstraZeneca R&D, Discovery Safety, Drug Safety and Metabolism, Alderley Park, Macclesfield, UK.
3: Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK.
4: School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey, UK. Electronic address: G.Dickson@rhul.ac.uk.

Associated clinical trials:

A Clinical Study to Assess the Efficacy and Safety of GSK2402968 in Subjects With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD114044) | NCT01254019

Efficacy Study of AVI-4658 to Induce Dystrophin Expression in Selected Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Patients | NCT01396239

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