Search Results - "Day, John W."
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Treatment of infantile-onset spinal muscular atrophy with nusinersen: a phase 2, open-label, dose-escalation study
Published in The Lancet (British edition) (17-12-2016)“…Summary Background Nusinersen is a 2′- O -methoxyethyl phosphorothioate-modified antisense drug being developed to treat spinal muscular atrophy. Nusinersen is…”
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Restoration of the Mississippi Delta: Lessons from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (23-03-2007)“…Hurricanes Katrina and Rita showed the vulnerability of coastal communities and how human activities that caused deterioration of the Mississippi Deltaic Plain…”
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Revised upper limb module for spinal muscular atrophy: Development of a new module
Published in Muscle & nerve (01-06-2017)“…ABSTRACT Introduction There is a growing need for a robust clinical measure to assess upper limb motor function in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), as the…”
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Advances and limitations for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy
Published in BMC pediatrics (03-11-2022)“…Spinal muscular atrophy (5q-SMA; SMA), a genetic neuromuscular condition affecting spinal motor neurons, is caused by defects in both copies of the SMN1 gene…”
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MBNL Sequestration by Toxic RNAs and RNA Misprocessing in the Myotonic Dystrophy Brain
Published in Cell reports (Cambridge) (18-08-2015)“…For some neurological disorders, disease is primarily RNA mediated due to expression of non-coding microsatellite expansion RNAs (RNAexp). Toxicity is thought…”
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Ambulatory function in spinal muscular atrophy: Age-related patterns of progression
Published in PloS one (26-06-2018)“…Individuals with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) type 3 are able to walk but they have weakness, gait impairments and fatigue. Our primary study objective was to…”
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Coastal Wetland Resilience, Accelerated Sea‐Level Rise, and the Importance of Timescale
Published in AGU advances (01-03-2021)“…Recent studies have produced conflicting results as to whether coastal wetlands can keep up with present‐day and future sea‐level rise. The stratigraphic…”
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Transcriptome alterations in myotonic dystrophy frontal cortex
Published in Cell reports (Cambridge) (19-01-2021)“…Myotonic dystrophy (DM) is caused by expanded CTG/CCTG repeats, causing symptoms in skeletal muscle, heart, and central nervous system (CNS). CNS issues are…”
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LTBP4 genotype predicts age of ambulatory loss in duchenne muscular dystrophy
Published in Annals of neurology (01-04-2013)“…Objective Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) displays a clinical range that is not fully explained by the primary DMD mutations. Ltbp4, encoding latent…”
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rbFOX1/MBNL1 competition for CCUG RNA repeats binding contributes to myotonic dystrophy type 1/type 2 differences
Published in Nature communications (22-05-2018)“…Myotonic dystrophy type 1 and type 2 (DM1, DM2) are caused by expansions of CTG and CCTG repeats, respectively. RNAs containing expanded CUG or CCUG repeats…”
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Role of telomere dysfunction in cardiac failure in Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Published in Nature cell biology (01-08-2013)“…Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), the most common inherited muscular dystrophy of childhood, leads to death due to cardiorespiratory failure. Paradoxically,…”
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Vegetation death and rapid loss of surface elevation in two contrasting Mississippi delta salt marshes: The role of sedimentation, autocompaction and sea-level rise
Published in Ecological engineering (01-02-2011)“…From 1990 to 2004, we carried out a study on accretionary dynamics and wetland loss in salt marshes surrounding two small ponds in the Mississippi delta; Old…”
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Life Cycle of Oil and Gas Fields in the Mississippi River Delta: A Review
Published in Water (Basel) (01-05-2020)“…Oil and gas (O&G) activity has been pervasive in the Mississippi River Delta (MRD). Here we review the life cycle of O&G fields in the MRD focusing on the…”
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Long-term assimilation wetlands in coastal Louisiana: Review of monitoring data and management
Published in Ecological engineering (01-10-2019)“…•Wetlands with fresh water inflow had higher accretion rates than areas no inflow.•Wetlands with fresh water inflow had higher productivity than areas with no…”
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Generation of two induced pluripotent stem cell lines from Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients
Published in Stem cell research (01-10-2023)“…Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an X-linked recessive disorder that leads to death in early adulthood. Patients with DMD have null mutations leading to…”
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Bidirectional expression of CUG and CAG expansion transcripts and intranuclear polyglutamine inclusions in spinocerebellar ataxia type 8
Published in Nature genetics (01-07-2006)“…We previously reported that a (CTG)n expansion causes spinocerebellar ataxia type 8 (SCA8), a slowly progressive ataxia with reduced penetrance. We now report…”
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Adeno-associated virus serotype 9 antibodies in patients screened for treatment with onasemnogene abeparvovec
Published in Molecular therapy. Methods & clinical development (11-06-2021)“…Spinal muscular atrophy is a progressive, recessively inherited monogenic neurologic disease, the genetic root cause of which is the absence of a functional…”
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Generation of two induced pluripotent stem cell lines from spinal muscular atrophy type 1 patients carrying no functional copies of SMN1 gene
Published in Stem cell research (01-06-2023)“…Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a severe neurodegenerative muscular disease caused by the homozygous loss of survival of motor neuron 1 (SMN1) genes. SMA…”
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Assessing Multi-Hazard Vulnerability and Dynamic Coastal Flood Risk in the Mississippi Delta: The Global Delta Risk Index as a Social-Ecological Systems Approach
Published in Water (Basel) (01-02-2021)“…The tight coupling of the social-ecological system (SES) of the Mississippi Delta calls for balanced natural hazard vulnerability and risk assessments. Most…”
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Long-term efficacy, safety, and patient-reported outcomes of apitegromab in patients with spinal muscular atrophy: results from the 36-month TOPAZ study
Published in Frontiers in neurology (22-07-2024)“…At 12 months in the phase 2 TOPAZ study, treatment with apitegromab was associated with both an improved motor function in patients with Type 2 or 3 spinal…”
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