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ReviewFundamental research2022

Promising therapeutic approaches of utrophin replacing dystrophin in the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Ruo Wu, Yafeng Song, Shiwen Wu, Yongchang Chen

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Review in Fundamental research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Ruo WuState Key Laboratory of Primate Biomedical Research & Institute of Primate Translational Medicine, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China.
Yafeng SongInstitute of Sport and Health Science, Beijing Sport University, No.48 Xinxi Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100084, China.
Shiwen WuDepartment of Neurology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, 28 Fuxing Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100853, China.
Yongchang ChenState Key Laboratory of Primate Biomedical Research & Institute of Primate Translational Medicine, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a serious genetic neuromuscular rare disease that is prevalent and caused by the mutation/deletion of the X-linked DMD gene that encodes dystrophin. Utrophin is a dystrophin homologous protein on human chromosome 6. Dystrophin and utrophin are highly homologous. They can recruit many dystrophin-glycoprotein complex (DGC)-related proteins and co-localize at the sarcolemma in the early stage of human embryonic development. Moreover, utrophin is overexpressed naturally at the mature myofiber sarcolemma in DMD patients. Therefore, utrophin is considered the most promising homologous protein to replace dystrophin. This review summarizes various modulating drugs and gene therapy approaches for utrophin replacement. As a universal method to treat DMD disease, utrophin has a promising therapeutic prospect and deserves further investigation.

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Duchenne muscular dystrophyDystrophinSarcolemmaTherapyUtrophin

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PMID38933385
PMCPMC11197810

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