Myotonic dystrophy

...to dismiss have been denied, according to court records. "The family told police that Jason suffered from a medical condition known as myotonic dystrophy -- a form of muscular dystrophy characterized by the wasting away of muscles. He...

In this article: Muscular dystrophy, Child Protective Services, and Supreme Court

...team reports that pentamidine, when tested in genetically altered mice, counters genetic splicing defects in RNA that lead to type 1 myotonic dystrophy -- one of nine types of muscular dystrophy -- also known as DM1 and Steinart's...

In this article: Pentamidine, Guanine, Muscular dystrophy, Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Rochester, and Medical advice

...Joanne, who has struggled ever since as she has inherited Joy's MD. Shortly after the birth, Joy was diagnosed with a form of MD known as myotonic dystrophy. The family were all encouraged to be checked for the disease. My vague...

In this article: Maryland and Muscular dystrophy

...2009 - 2:00 PDT 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. The new compound, soon to be...

In this article: DMPK, Chemistry, Nucleotide, Dystrophy, Myotonic, Medical advice, and Skin disease

...findings are published in the scientific journal The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Myotonic dystrophy, also called Steinert's disease, is a heritable, neuromuscular disease with an incidence of about one in 10,000. It...

In this article: Muscular dystrophy, DM1, Oligonucleotide, Myotonia, Dystrophy, and Toxin

UK experts said the study results were "exciting". Around 7,500 children and adults in the UK have some form of muscular dystrophy. Myotonic dystrophy, like other forms of the condition, causes muscle weakness and wasting that is...

In this article: Muscle weakness, Muscular dystrophy, UK, Dystrophy, Morpholino, Oligonucleotide, Myotonia, and University of Rochester

...and re-establish the cellular activity that is disrupted by the disease. Because scientists believe that potentially all of the symptoms of myotonic dystrophy the most common form of muscular dystrophy in adults flow from this single genetic...

In this article: Muscular dystrophy, University of Rochester Medical Center, Morpholino, Medical advice, Skin disease, Degenerative disease, Proteins, and Oligonucleotide

...of the tunnel, which freaks me out," the senior Hospital for Sick Children scientist says of research that shows a new way to attack myotonic dystrophy, the ailment's most common form, at its genetic root. "I've been (working on) this for...

In this article: Muscular dystrophy, Toronto, Morpholino, Oligonucleotide, University of Rochester, and Quebec

...director of the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). "But this is proof of principle that you can impact the molecular underpinnings of myotonic dystrophy, which is an important step forward in trying to develop a therapy that affects...

In this article: Muscular dystrophy, Oligonucleotide, University of Rochester Medical Center, Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, MDA, and Muscular Dystrophy Association

...team reported on Thursday. Mice injected with a compound that neutralizes faulty gene activity regained the use of muscles frozen by myotonic dystrophy, the researchers said. "We haven't corrected the underlying gene abnormality," said Dr....

In this article: Muscular dystrophy, University of Rochester, United States, and New York