title: Splicing therapy for neuromuscular disease.
abstract: Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) are two of the most common inherited neuromuscular diseases in humans. Both conditions are fatal and no clinically available treatments are able to significantly alter disease course in either case. However, by manipulation of pre-mRNA splicing using antisense oligonucleotides, defective transcripts from the DMD gene and from the SMN2 gene in SMA can be modified to once again produce protein and restore function. A large number of in vitro and in vivo studies have validated the applicability of this approach and an increasing number of preliminary clinical trials have either been completed or are under way. Several different oligonucleotide chemistries can be used for this purpose and various strategies are being developed to facilitate increased delivery efficiency and prolonged therapeutic effect. As these novel therapeutic compounds start to enter the clinical arena, attention must also be drawn to the question of how best to facilitate the clinical development of such personalised genetic therapies and how best to implement their provision.
authors: Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, UK.
authors: Andrew G L
authors: AG
authors: Douglas
authors: Matthew J A
authors: MJ
authors: Wood
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016189:Dystrophin / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D015316:Genetic Therapy; D006801:Humans; D009134:Muscular Atrophy, Spinal / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism / Q000628:therapy*; D020388:Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism / Q000628:therapy*; D012326:RNA Splicing
chemical_list: D016189:Dystrophin
keywords: 2′-O-methoxyethyl phosphorothioate; 2′-O-methyl phosphorothioate; 2′MOE-PS; 2′OMePS; AON; Antisense; CPP; DMD; Duchenne muscular dystrophy; Exon inclusion; Exon skipping; PMO; PPMO; SMA; Splicing; antisense oligonucleotide; cell-penetrating peptide; peptide-conjugated phosphorodiamidate morpholino; phosphorodiamidate morpholino; spinal muscular atrophy
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