Search Results - "Swoboda, Kathryn J."
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Emerging therapies and challenges in spinal muscular atrophy
Published in Annals of neurology (01-03-2017)“…Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a hereditary neurodegenerative disease with severity ranging from progressive infantile paralysis and premature death (type I)…”
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The Expanding Spectrum of Neurological Phenotypes in Children With ATP1A3 Mutations, Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood, Rapid-onset Dystonia-Parkinsonism, CAPOS and Beyond
Published in Pediatric neurology (01-01-2015)“…Abstract Background ATP1A3 mutations have now been recognized in infants and children presenting with a diverse group of neurological phenotypes, including…”
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Fever-induced paroxysmal weakness and encephalopathy, a new phenotype of ATP1A3 mutation
Published in Pediatric neurology (01-08-2017)“…Structured Abstract Objectives We identified a group of patients with ATP1A3 mutations at residue 756 who display a new phenotype distinct from alternating…”
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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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A Positive Modifier of Spinal Muscular Atrophy in the SMN2 Gene
Published in American journal of human genetics (01-09-2009)“…Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a common autosomal-recessive motor neuron disease caused by the homozygous loss of the SMN1 gene. A nearly identical gene,…”
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Prion protein quantification in human cerebrospinal fluid as a tool for prion disease drug development
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (16-04-2019)“…Reduction of native prion protein (PrP) levels in the brain is an attractive strategy for the treatment or prevention of human prion disease. Clinical…”
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Evaluation of SMN protein, transcript, and copy number in the biomarkers for spinal muscular atrophy (BforSMA) clinical study
Published in PloS one (27-04-2012)“…The universal presence of a gene (SMN2) nearly identical to the mutated SMN1 gene responsible for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) has proved an enticing…”
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Neuronal modeling of alternating hemiplegia of childhood reveals transcriptional compensation and replicates a trigger-induced phenotype
Published in Neurobiology of disease (01-07-2020)“…Alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC) is a rare neurodevelopmental disease caused by heterozygous de novo missense mutations in the ATP1A3 gene that…”
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Direct evidence of impaired neuronal Na/K-ATPase pump function in alternating hemiplegia of childhood
Published in Neurobiology of disease (01-07-2018)“…Mutations in ATP1A3 encoding the catalytic subunit of the Na/K-ATPase expressed in mammalian neurons cause alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC) as well as…”
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Responses to Fasting and Glucose Loading in a Cohort of Well Children with Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type II
Published in The Journal of pediatrics (01-12-2015)“…Objective To examine the impact of fasting and glucose tolerance on selected metabolic variables in children with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) type II in a…”
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Cancer‐induced muscle atrophy is determined by intrinsic muscle oxidative capacity
Published in The FASEB journal (01-07-2021)“…We tested the hypothesis that cancer cachexia progression would induce oxidative post‐translational modifications (Ox‐PTMs) associated with skeletal muscle…”
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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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Natural history of denervation in SMA: Relation to age, SMN2 copy number, and function
Published in Annals of neurology (01-05-2005)“…Denervation was assessed in 89 spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) 1, 2, and 3 subjects via motor unit number estimation (MUNE) and maximum compound motor action…”
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Escaping the Nuclear Confines: Signal-Dependent Pre-mRNA Splicing in Anucleate Platelets
Published in Cell (12-08-2005)“…Platelets are specialized hemostatic cells that circulate in the blood as anucleate cytoplasts. We report that platelets unexpectedly possess a functional…”
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Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood: Early Characteristics and Evolution of a Neurodevelopmental Syndrome
Published in Pediatrics (Evanston) (01-03-2009)“…Alternating hemiplegia of childhood is a predominantly sporadic neurodevelopmental syndrome of uncertain etiology. In more than 3 decades since its…”
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SMA CARNI-VAL trial part I: double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of L-carnitine and valproic acid in spinal muscular atrophy
Published in PloS one (19-08-2010)“…Valproic acid (VPA) has demonstrated potential as a therapeutic candidate for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) in vitro and in vivo. Two cohorts of subjects were…”
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Vascular Perfusion Abnormalities in Infants with Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Published in The Journal of pediatrics (01-08-2009)“…Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an important cause of death in children and SMA type I, also known as Werdnig-Hoffman disease , is the most severe form of…”
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SMN Protein Can Be Reliably Measured in Whole Blood with an Electrochemiluminescence (ECL) Immunoassay: Implications for Clinical Trials
Published in PloS one (08-03-2016)“…Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is caused by defects in the survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene that encodes survival motor neuron (SMN) protein. The majority of…”
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Phase II open label study of valproic acid in spinal muscular atrophy
Published in PloS one (14-05-2009)“…Preliminary in vitro and in vivo studies with valproic acid (VPA) in cell lines and patients with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) demonstrate increased…”
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An expanded access program of risdiplam for patients with Type 1 or 2 spinal muscular atrophy
Published in Annals of clinical and translational neurology (01-06-2022)“…Objective The US risdiplam expanded access program (EAP; NCT04256265) was opened to provide individuals with Type 1 or 2 spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) who had…”
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