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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2021

Innovative Therapeutic Approaches for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

Fernanda Fortunato, Rachele Rossi, Maria Sofia Falzarano, Alessandra Ferlini

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

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43citing papers in PubMed
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

43 citing papers in PubMed, 67 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Dose- and genotype-dependent cardiac arrhythmia and sudden death in rats following microdystrophin gene therapy.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2026
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  6. miRNA dysregulation in Duchenne muscular dystrophy comorbidities.World journal of experimental medicine · 2025
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  9. Valproic Acid Improves Antisense-Mediated Exon-Skipping Efficacy inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  10. Orthopaedic Management in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.Journal of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America · 2025
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  13. The Role of MicroRNA in the Pathogenesis of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Fernanda FortunatoDepartment of Medical Sciences, University of Ferrara, 44121 Ferrara, Italy.
Rachele RossiDepartment of Medical Sciences, University of Ferrara, 44121 Ferrara, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8264-4798
Maria Sofia FalzaranoDepartment of Medical Sciences, University of Ferrara, 44121 Ferrara, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5619-628X
Alessandra FerliniDepartment of Medical Sciences, University of Ferrara, 44121 Ferrara, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8385-9870
University of Ferrara · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common childhood muscular dystrophy affecting ~1:5000 live male births. Following the identification of pathogenic variations in the dystrophin gene in 1986, the underlining genotype/phenotype correlations emerged and the role of the dystrophin protein was elucidated in skeletal, smooth, and cardiac muscles, as well as in the brain. When the dystrophin protein is absent or quantitatively or qualitatively modified, the muscle cannot sustain the stress of repeated contractions. Dystrophin acts as a bridging and anchoring protein between the sarcomere and the sarcolemma, and its absence or reduction leads to severe muscle damage that eventually cannot be repaired, with its ultimate substitution by connective tissue and fat. The advances of an understanding of the molecular pathways affected in DMD have led to the development of many therapeutic strategies that tackle different aspects of disease etiopathogenesis, which have recently led to the first successful approved orphan drugs for this condition. The therapeutic advances in this field have progressed exponentially, with second-generation drugs now entering in clinical trials as gene therapy, potentially providing a further effective approach to the condition.

Indexed as

antisense oligonucleotide chemistryDuchenne muscular dystrophydystrophin restorationexon-skippinggene therapyinnovative clinical trialsstop codon reversion

Identifiers

PMID33671409
PMCPMC7922390
OpenAlexW3133019004

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