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Exercise, disease state and sex influence the beneficial effects of Fn14-depletion on survival and muscle pathology in the SOD1G93A amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) mouse model (2024)
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Hazell, G., McCallion, E., Ahlskog, N., Sutton, E. R., Okoh, M., Shaqoura, E. I. H., …Bowerman, M. (in press). Exercise, disease state and sex influence the beneficial effects of Fn14-depletion on survival and muscle pathology in the SOD1G93A amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) mouse model. Skeletal Muscle, 14(1), Article 23. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13395-024-00356-0

Background: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating and incurable neurodegenerative disease. Accumulating evidence strongly suggests that intrinsic muscle defects exist and contribute to disease progression, including imbalances in whole... Read More about Exercise, disease state and sex influence the beneficial effects of Fn14-depletion on survival and muscle pathology in the SOD1G93A amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) mouse model.

Defining an ageing-related pathology, disease or syndrome: International Consensus Statement (2024)
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Short, E., ICCARP, Adcock, I. M., Al-Sarireh, B., Ager, A., Ajjan, R., …Bentley, B. (in press). Defining an ageing-related pathology, disease or syndrome: International Consensus Statement. GeroScience, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-024-01315-9

Around the world, individuals are living longer, but an increased average lifespan does not always equate to an increased health span. With advancing age, the increased prevalence of ageing-related diseases can have a significant impact on health sta... Read More about Defining an ageing-related pathology, disease or syndrome: International Consensus Statement.

A transcriptomics-based drug repositioning approach to identify drugs with similar activities for the treatment of muscle pathologies in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) models. (2023)
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Hoolachan, J. M., McCallion, E., Sutton, E. R., Çetin, Ö., Pacheco-Torres, P., Dimitriadi, M., …Bowerman, M. (2024). A transcriptomics-based drug repositioning approach to identify drugs with similar activities for the treatment of muscle pathologies in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) models. Human molecular genetics, 33(5), 400–425. https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddad192

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a genetic neuromuscular disorder caused by the reduction of survival of motor neuron (SMN) protein levels. Although three SMN-augmentation therapies are clinically approved that significantly slow down disease progres... Read More about A transcriptomics-based drug repositioning approach to identify drugs with similar activities for the treatment of muscle pathologies in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) models..

Differential effect of Fas activation on spinal muscular atrophy motoneuron death and induction of axonal growth. (2023)
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Benlefki, S., Younes, R., Challuau, D., Bernard-Marissal, N., Hilaire, C., Scamps, F., …Raoul, C. (in press). Differential effect of Fas activation on spinal muscular atrophy motoneuron death and induction of axonal growth. Cellular and Molecular Biology, 69(10), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.14715/cmb/2023.69.10.1

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) are the most common motoneuron diseases affecting adults and infants, respectively. ALS and SMA are both characterized by the selective degeneration of motoneurons. Although differ... Read More about Differential effect of Fas activation on spinal muscular atrophy motoneuron death and induction of axonal growth..

An Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Human Blood–Brain Barrier (BBB) Model to Test the Crossing by Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) Vectors and Antisense Oligonucleotides (2023)
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Selvakumaran, J., Ursu, S., Bowerman, M., Lu-Nguyen, N., Wood, M. J., Malerba, A., & Yáñez-Muñoz, R. J. (2023). An Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Human Blood–Brain Barrier (BBB) Model to Test the Crossing by Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) Vectors and Antisense Oligonucleotides. Biomedicines, 11(10), Article 2700. https://doi.org/10.3390/xxxxx

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is the specialised microvasculature system that shields the central nervous system (CNS) from potentially toxic agents. Attempts to develop therapeutic agents targeting the CNS have been hindered by the lack of predictiv... Read More about An Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Human Blood–Brain Barrier (BBB) Model to Test the Crossing by Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) Vectors and Antisense Oligonucleotides.

An Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Human Blood–Brain Barrier (BBB) Model to Test the Crossing by Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) Vectors and Antisense Oligonucleotides (2023)
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Selvakumaran, J., Ursu, S., Bowerman, M., Lu-Nguyen, N., Wood, M. J., Malerba, A., & Yáñez-Muñoz, R. J. (2023). An Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Human Blood–Brain Barrier (BBB) Model to Test the Crossing by Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) Vectors and Antisense Oligonucleotides. Biomedicines, 11(10), Article 2700. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines11102700

The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is the specialised microvasculature system that shields the central nervous system (CNS) from potentially toxic agents. Attempts to develop therapeutic agents targeting the CNS have been hindered by the lack of predictiv... Read More about An Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Human Blood–Brain Barrier (BBB) Model to Test the Crossing by Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) Vectors and Antisense Oligonucleotides.

AAV9-mediated SMN gene therapy rescues cardiac desmin but not lamin A/C and elastin dysregulation in Smn2B/- spinal muscular atrophy mice Human Molecular Genetics (2023)
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Brown, S., Šoltić, D., Synowsky, S. A., Shirran, S. L., Chilcott, E., Shorrock, H. K., …Fuller, H. (2023). AAV9-mediated SMN gene therapy rescues cardiac desmin but not lamin A/C and elastin dysregulation in Smn2B/- spinal muscular atrophy mice Human Molecular Genetics. Human Molecular Genetics, Article ddad121. https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddad121

Structural, functional and molecular cardiac defects have been reported in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) patients and mouse models. Previous quantitative proteomics analyses demonstrated widespread molecular defects in the severe Taiwanese SMA mouse... Read More about AAV9-mediated SMN gene therapy rescues cardiac desmin but not lamin A/C and elastin dysregulation in Smn2B/- spinal muscular atrophy mice Human Molecular Genetics.

Enhanced expression of the human Survival motor neuron 1 gene from a codon-optimised cDNA transgene in vitro and in vivo (2023)
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Nafchi, N., Chilcott, E., Owen, S., Fuller, H., Bowerman, M., & Yáñez-Muñoz, R. (2023). Enhanced expression of the human Survival motor neuron 1 gene from a codon-optimised cDNA transgene in vitro and in vivo. Gene Therapy, 30, 812–825. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41434-023-00406-0

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a neuromuscular disease particularly characterised by degeneration of ventral motor neurons. Survival motor neuron (SMN) 1 gene mutations cause SMA, and gene addition strategies to replace the faulty SMN1 copy are a t... Read More about Enhanced expression of the human Survival motor neuron 1 gene from a codon-optimised cDNA transgene in vitro and in vivo.

Open‐labelled study to monitor the effect of an amino acid formula on symptom management in children with spinal muscular atrophy type I: The SMAAF pilot study (2022)
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Bowerman, M., O'Connor, G., Edel, L., Raquq, S., Szmurlo, A., Simpson, Z., …Baranello, G. (2023). Open‐labelled study to monitor the effect of an amino acid formula on symptom management in children with spinal muscular atrophy type I: The SMAAF pilot study. Nutrition in Clinical Practice, 38(4), 871-880. https://doi.org/10.1002/ncp.10940

Background: An increasing number of families of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) children are incorporating an amino acid-based enteral formula into their child’s feeding regimens. Other components of the amino acidbased formula include added carbohydra... Read More about Open‐labelled study to monitor the effect of an amino acid formula on symptom management in children with spinal muscular atrophy type I: The SMAAF pilot study.

264th ENMC International Workshop: Multi-system involvement in spinal muscular atrophy Hoofddorp, the Netherlands, November 19th – 21st 2021 (2022)
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Detering, N. T., Zambon, A., Hensel, N., Kothary, R., Swoboda, K., Gillingwater, T. H., …Bowerman. (2022). 264th ENMC International Workshop: Multi-system involvement in spinal muscular atrophy Hoofddorp, the Netherlands, November 19th – 21st 2021. Neuromuscular Disorders, 32(8), 697-705. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nmd.2022.06.005

Dysregulation of Tweak and Fn14 in skeletal muscle of spinal muscular atrophy mice (2022)
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Bowerman, Meijboom, K. E., Sutton, E. R., McCallion, E., McFall, E., Anthony, D., …Bowerman, M. (2022). Dysregulation of Tweak and Fn14 in skeletal muscle of spinal muscular atrophy mice. Skeletal Muscle, 12(1), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13395-022-00301-z

Background: Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a childhood neuromuscular disorder caused by depletion of the survival motor neuron (SMN) protein. SMA is characterized by the selective death of spinal cord motor neurons, leading to progressive muscle wa... Read More about Dysregulation of Tweak and Fn14 in skeletal muscle of spinal muscular atrophy mice.

Differential effect of Fas activation on spinal muscular atrophy motoneuron death and induction of axonal growth (2022)
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Hilaire, C., Benlefki, S., Younes, R., Challuau, D., Bernard-Marissal, N., Scamps, F., …Raoul, C. (2022). Differential effect of Fas activation on spinal muscular atrophy motoneuron death and induction of axonal growth

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) are the most common motoneuron diseases affecting adults and infants, respectively. ALS and SMA are both characterized by the selective degeneration of motoneurons. Although differ... Read More about Differential effect of Fas activation on spinal muscular atrophy motoneuron death and induction of axonal growth.

SMA - TREATMENT (2021)
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Owen, S., Šoltić, D., Synowsky, S., Crompton, E., Yáñez-Muñoz, R., Schneider, B., …Fuller, H. (2021). SMA - TREATMENT. Neuromuscular Disorders, 31, S131-S132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nmd.2021.07.295

Proteins associated with the sarcomere and costamere in hearts are dysregulated in two mouse models of spinal muscular atrophy

Dystrophin involvement in peripheral circadian SRF signalling (2021)
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Bowerman. (2021). Dystrophin involvement in peripheral circadian SRF signalling. https://doi.org/10.26508/lsa.202101014

Absence of dystrophin, an essential sarcolemmal protein required for muscle contraction, leads to the devastating muscle-wasting disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Dystrophin has an actin-binding domain, which binds and stabilises filamentous-(F)-a... Read More about Dystrophin involvement in peripheral circadian SRF signalling.

Combining multi-omics and drug perturbation profiles to identify muscle-specific treatments for spinal muscular atrophy (2021)
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Bowerman. (2021). Combining multi-omics and drug perturbation profiles to identify muscle-specific treatments for spinal muscular atrophy. JCI insight, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.149446

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a neuromuscular disorder caused by loss of survival motor neuron (SMN) protein. While SMN restoration therapies are beneficial, they are not a cure. We aimed to identify novel treatments to alleviate muscle pathology... Read More about Combining multi-omics and drug perturbation profiles to identify muscle-specific treatments for spinal muscular atrophy.

Dystrophin regulates peripheral circadian SRF signalling (2021)
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Betts, C. A., Jagannath, A., van Westering, T. L., Bowerman, M., Banerjee, S., Meng, J., …Wood, M. J. (2021). Dystrophin regulates peripheral circadian SRF signalling

Dystrophin is a sarcolemmal protein essential for muscle contraction and maintenance, absence of which leads to the devastating muscle wasting disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD)[1, 2]. Dystrophin has an actin-binding domain [3–5], which specif... Read More about Dystrophin regulates peripheral circadian SRF signalling.

The relationship between body composition, fatty acid metabolism and diet in spinal muscular atrophy (2021)
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Watson, K. S., Boukhloufi, I., Bowerman, M., & Parson, S. H. (2021). The relationship between body composition, fatty acid metabolism and diet in spinal muscular atrophy. Brain Sciences, https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11020131

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an autosomal recessive condition that results in pathological deficiency of the survival motor neuron (SMN) protein. SMA most frequently presents itself within the first few months of life and is characterized by prog... Read More about The relationship between body composition, fatty acid metabolism and diet in spinal muscular atrophy.

Targeting the 5’ untranslated region of SMN2 as a therapeutic strategy for spinal muscular atrophy (2021)
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Bowerman. (2021). Targeting the 5’ untranslated region of SMN2 as a therapeutic strategy for spinal muscular atrophy. Molecular Therapy - Nucleic Acids, 731-742. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omtn.2020.12.027

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a neuromuscular disorder caused by mutations in the survival motor neuron 1 gene (SMN1). All patients have at least one copy of a paralog, SMN2, but a C-to-T transition in this gene results in exon 7 skipping in a maj... Read More about Targeting the 5’ untranslated region of SMN2 as a therapeutic strategy for spinal muscular atrophy.

A single amino acid residue regulates PTEN-binding and stability of the Spinal Muscular Atrophy protein SMN (2020)
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Rademacher, S., Detering, N. . T., Schüning, T., Lindner, R., Santonicola, P., Wefel, I., …Claus, P. (2020). A single amino acid residue regulates PTEN-binding and stability of the Spinal Muscular Atrophy protein SMN. Cells, 9(11), Article 2405. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells9112405

Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is a neuromuscular disease caused by decreased levels of the survival of motoneuron (SMN) protein. Post-translational mechanisms for regulation of its stability are still elusive. Thus, we aimed to identify regulatory ph... Read More about A single amino acid residue regulates PTEN-binding and stability of the Spinal Muscular Atrophy protein SMN.

Recent Advances and Future Perspectives in the Development of Therapeutic Approaches for Neurodegenerative Diseases (2020)
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Bowerman, M. (2020). Recent Advances and Future Perspectives in the Development of Therapeutic Approaches for Neurodegenerative Diseases. Brain Sciences, 10(9), Article 633. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci10090633

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Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD) and Huntington’s disease (HD), severely impact the function of neuronal cells in the brain... Read More about Recent Advances and Future Perspectives in the Development of Therapeutic Approaches for Neurodegenerative Diseases.

Muscle overexpression of Klf15 via an AAV8-Spc5-12 construct does not provide benefits in spinal muscular atrophy mice (2020)
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Bowerman, Ahlskog, N., Hayler, D., Krueger, A., Kubinski, S., Claus, P., …Bowerman, M. (2020). Muscle overexpression of Klf15 via an AAV8-Spc5-12 construct does not provide benefits in spinal muscular atrophy mice. Gene Therapy, 27, 505–515. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41434-020-0146-8

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a neuromuscular disease caused by loss of the survival motor neuron (SMN) gene. While there are currently two approved gene-based therapies for SMA, availability, high cost, and differences in patient response indicat... Read More about Muscle overexpression of Klf15 via an AAV8-Spc5-12 construct does not provide benefits in spinal muscular atrophy mice.

Expression of ALS-linked SOD1 mutation in motoneurons or myotubes induces differential effects on neuromuscular function in vitro (2020)
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Benlefki, S., Sanchez-Vicente, A., Milla, V., Lucas, O., Soulard, C., Younes, R., …Hilaire, C. (2020). Expression of ALS-linked SOD1 mutation in motoneurons or myotubes induces differential effects on neuromuscular function in vitro. Neuroscience, 435, 33-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2020.03.044

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease that selectively affects upper and lower motoneurons. Dismantlement of the neuromuscular junction (NMJ) is an early pathological hallmark of the disease whose cellular origin re... Read More about Expression of ALS-linked SOD1 mutation in motoneurons or myotubes induces differential effects on neuromuscular function in vitro.

Teaching an old drug new tricks: repositioning strategies for spinal muscular atrophy (2019)
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Bowerman. (2019). Teaching an old drug new tricks: repositioning strategies for spinal muscular atrophy. Future Neurology, 14(3), https://doi.org/10.2217/fnl-2019-0006

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a childhood disorder caused by loss of the survival motor neuron (SMN) gene. Pathological hallmarks are spinal cord motor neuron death, neuromuscular junction dysfunction and muscle atrophy. The first SMN genetic ther... Read More about Teaching an old drug new tricks: repositioning strategies for spinal muscular atrophy.

Abnormal fatty acid metabolism is a core component of spinal muscular atrophy (2019)
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Kothary, R., Deguise, M., Baranello, G., Mastella, C., Beauvais, A., Michaud, J., …Bowerman, M. (2019). Abnormal fatty acid metabolism is a core component of spinal muscular atrophy. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, 1519-1532. https://doi.org/10.1002/acn3.50855

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Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an inherited neuromuscular disorder leading to paralysis and subsequent death in young children. Initially considered a motor neuron disease, extra-neuronal involvement is increasingly recognized. The prim... Read More about Abnormal fatty acid metabolism is a core component of spinal muscular atrophy.

Multi-Study Proteomic and Bioinformatic Identification of Molecular Overlap between Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) (2018)
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Šoltić, D., Bowerman, M., Stock, J., Shorrock, H. K., Gillingwater, T. H., & Fuller, H. R. (2018). Multi-Study Proteomic and Bioinformatic Identification of Molecular Overlap between Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). Brain Sciences, https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci8120212

Unravelling the complex molecular pathways responsible for motor neuron degeneration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) remains a persistent challenge. Interest is growing in the potential molecular similarities... Read More about Multi-Study Proteomic and Bioinformatic Identification of Molecular Overlap between Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA).

Pathogenic commonalities between spinal muscular atrophy and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: converging roads to therapeutic development (2018)
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Bowerman, M., Murray, L., Scamps, F., Schneider, B., Kothary, R., & Raoul, C. (2018). Pathogenic commonalities between spinal muscular atrophy and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: converging roads to therapeutic development. European Journal of Medical Genetics, 685-698. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmg.2017.12.001

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are the two most common motoneuron disorders, which share typical pathological hallmarks while remaining genetically distinct. Indeed, SMA is caused by deletions or mutations in th... Read More about Pathogenic commonalities between spinal muscular atrophy and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: converging roads to therapeutic development.

Light modulation ameliorates expression of circadian genes and disease progression in spinal muscular atrophy mice (2018)
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Walter, L. M., Koch, C. E., Betts, C. A., Ahlskog, N., Meijboom, K. E., van Westering, T. L. E., …Bowerman, M. (2018). Light modulation ameliorates expression of circadian genes and disease progression in spinal muscular atrophy mice. Human molecular genetics, 27(20), 3582-3597. https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddy249

Physiology and behaviour are critically dependent on circadian regulation via a core set of clock genes, dysregulation of which leads to metabolic and sleep disturbances. Metabolic and sleep perturbations occur in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a neu... Read More about Light modulation ameliorates expression of circadian genes and disease progression in spinal muscular atrophy mice.

Interventions Targeting Glucocorticoid-Krüppel-like Factor 15-Branched-Chain Amino Acid Signaling Improve Disease Phenotypes in Spinal Muscular Atrophy Mice (2018)
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Walter, L. M., Deguise, M., Meijboom, K. E., Betts, C. A., Ahlskog, N., van Westering, T. L., …Bowerman, M. (2018). Interventions Targeting Glucocorticoid-Krüppel-like Factor 15-Branched-Chain Amino Acid Signaling Improve Disease Phenotypes in Spinal Muscular Atrophy Mice. EBioMedicine, 226-242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2018.04.024

The circadian glucocorticoid-Krüppel-like factor 15-branched-chain amino acid (GC-KLF15-BCAA) signaling pathway is a key regulatory axis in muscle, whose imbalance has wide-reaching effects on metabolic homeostasis. Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a... Read More about Interventions Targeting Glucocorticoid-Krüppel-like Factor 15-Branched-Chain Amino Acid Signaling Improve Disease Phenotypes in Spinal Muscular Atrophy Mice.

Therapeutic strategies for spinal muscular atrophy: SMN and beyond. (2017)
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Ning, K., Wood, M., Bowerman, M., Becker, C., Yáñez-Muñoz, R., Gillingwater, T., …SMA Research Consortium, U. (2017). Therapeutic strategies for spinal muscular atrophy: SMN and beyond. Disease Models and Mechanisms, 943 - 954. https://doi.org/10.1242/dmm.030148

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a devastating neuromuscular disorder characterized by loss of motor neurons and muscle atrophy, generally presenting in childhood. SMA is caused by low levels of the survival motor neuron protein (SMN) due to inactiva... Read More about Therapeutic strategies for spinal muscular atrophy: SMN and beyond..

KCC3 loss-of-function contributes to Andermann syndrome by inducing activity-dependent neuromuscular junction defects. (2017)
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Bowerman, M., Salsac, C., Bernard, V., Soulard, C., Dionne, A., Coque, E., …Scamps, F. (2017). KCC3 loss-of-function contributes to Andermann syndrome by inducing activity-dependent neuromuscular junction defects. Neurobiology of Disease, 106, 35 - 48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbd.2017.06.013

Loss-of-function mutations in the potassium-chloride cotransporter KCC3 lead to Andermann syndrome, a severe sensorimotor neuropathy characterized by areflexia, amyotrophy and locomotor abnormalities. The molecular events responsible for axonal loss... Read More about KCC3 loss-of-function contributes to Andermann syndrome by inducing activity-dependent neuromuscular junction defects..

Spinal muscular atrophy: antisense oligonucleotide therapy opens the door to an integrated therapeutic landscape. (2017)
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Wood, M., Talbot, K., & Bowerman, M. (2017). Spinal muscular atrophy: antisense oligonucleotide therapy opens the door to an integrated therapeutic landscape. Human molecular genetics, 26(R2), R151 - R159. https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddx215

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a devastating neuromuscular disorder characterized by loss of spinal cord motor neurons, muscle atrophy and infantile death or severe disability. It is caused by severe reduction of the ubiquitously expressed survival... Read More about Spinal muscular atrophy: antisense oligonucleotide therapy opens the door to an integrated therapeutic landscape..

Systemic peptide-mediated oligonucleotide therapy improves long-term survival in spinal muscular atrophy. (2016)
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Hammond, S., Hazell, G., Shabanpoor, F., Saleh, A., Bowerman, M., Sleigh, J., …Wood, M. (2016). Systemic peptide-mediated oligonucleotide therapy improves long-term survival in spinal muscular atrophy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(39), 10962 - 10967. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1605731113

The development of antisense oligonucleotide therapy is an important advance in the identification of corrective therapy for neuromuscular diseases, such as spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Because of difficulties of delivering single-stranded oligonuc... Read More about Systemic peptide-mediated oligonucleotide therapy improves long-term survival in spinal muscular atrophy..

Nerve injury induces a Gem-GTPase-dependent downregulation of P/Q-type Ca2+ channels contributing to neurite plasticity in dorsal root ganglion neurons (2014)
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Scamps, F., Sangari, S., Bowerman, M., Rousset, M., Bellis, M., Cens, T., & Charnet, P. (2015). Nerve injury induces a Gem-GTPase-dependent downregulation of P/Q-type Ca2+ channels contributing to neurite plasticity in dorsal root ganglion neurons. Pflügers Archiv European Journal of Physiology, 467(2), 351-366. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00424-014-1520-4

Defects in pancreatic development and glucose metabolism in SMN-depleted mice independent of canonical spinal muscular atrophy neuromuscular pathology (2014)
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Bowerman, M., Michalski, J., Beauvais, A., Murray, L. M., DeRepentigny, Y., & Kothary, R. (2014). Defects in pancreatic development and glucose metabolism in SMN-depleted mice independent of canonical spinal muscular atrophy neuromuscular pathology. Human molecular genetics, 23(13), 3432-3444. https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddu052