News tagged with myotonic dystrophy
Small molecule inhibits pathology associated with myotonic dystrophy type one
Researchers at the University of Illinois have designed a small molecule that blocks an aberrant pathway associated with myotonic dystrophy type 1, the most common form of muscular dystrophy.
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Sep 07, 2009 |
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Genetic source of muscular dystrophy neutralized
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center have found a way to block the genetic flaw at the heart of a common form of muscular dystrophy. The results of the study, which were ...
Jul 16, 2009 |
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Scientists create potent molecules aimed at treating muscular dystrophy
While RNA is an appealing drug target, small molecules that can actually affect its function have rarely been found. But now scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have for the first time designed ...
Feb 22, 2012 |
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Human embryonic stem cells provide new insight into muscular dystrophy
Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is the most common inherited muscular dystrophy in adults. New research published by Cell Press online on March 31st in the journal Cell Stem Cell, uses human embryonic stem cells to make a ...
Mar 31, 2011 |
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Nature study shows how molecules escape from the nucleus
By constructing a microscope apparatus that achieves resolution never before possible in living cells, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have illuminated the molecular ...
Sep 15, 2010 |
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Scientists pinpoint earliest steps of common form of muscular dystrophy
Nearly two decades after they identified the specific genetic flaw that causes a common type of muscular dystrophy, scientists believe they have figured out how that flaw brings about the disease. The finding by an international ...
Aug 19, 2010 |
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New perspective in ion channel indicates treatment potential
Scientists researching a toxin extracted from the venom of the honey bee have used this to inform the design of new treatments to alleviate the symptoms of conditions such as muscular dystrophy, depression ...
Jul 09, 2010 |
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Heart drug effective for treating symptom of muscular dystrophy
A medication most often used to treat heart arrhythmias also reduces a central symptom of myotonic dystrophy, the most common type of muscular dystrophy in adults.
Medicine & Health / Medications
May 04, 2010 |
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Researchers trace effects of genetic defect in myotonic muscular dystrophy
Research on the genetic defect that causes myotonic muscular dystrophy has revealed that the mutation disrupts an array of metabolic pathways in muscle cells through its effects on two key proteins. A study published in Nature St ...
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Jan 24, 2010 |
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Possible help in fight against muscle-wasting disease (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A compound already used to treat pneumonia could become a new therapy for an inherited muscular wasting disease, according to researchers at the University of Oregon and the University of ...
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Nov 06, 2009 |
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Chemists Rationally Design Inhibitors Against an RNA Molecule that Causes Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy
(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemists at the University at Buffalo have used rational drug design to synthesize small, cell-permeable molecules that are effective in vitro against two common types of myotonic muscular ...
Aug 07, 2009 |
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Researchers gain insight into mechanism underlying Huntington's
Researchers at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center and Graduate Center for Toxicology (GCT) have gained new insight into the genetic mechanisms underlying Huntington's disease and other neurodegenerative or neuromuscular ...
Jul 13, 2009 |
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