posted on September 1, 2007 - 9:47pm
Injections of genes for the muscle-growth protein follistatin strengthened leg muscles in monkeys
posted on November 12, 2009 - 3:19pm
Four macaque monkeys that received injections of genes for a protein called follistatin into upper leg muscles experienced pronounced and durable increases in muscle size and strength with no adverse effects, say researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, and Ohio State University.
The findings could have implications for people with muscular dystrophies and other muscle...
Thirty-eight new grants support research in ALS, central core disease, spinal muscular atrophy, muscular dystrophy, and other diseases in MDA's program
posted on August 17, 2010 - 6:39pm
MDA has awarded 38 new research grants totaling more than $14 million and covering more than a dozen neuromuscular diseases.
MDA's Board of Directors met in Los Angeles July 16, where it reviewed and approved the new grants based on recommendations from the MDA Scientific and Medical Advisory Committees. Grants were scored and recommended for approval based on the capabilities of the...
Researchers seek adults with nonspecific diagnoses of muscular dystrophy or myopathy, who might have late-onset Pompe disease
posted on August 27, 2010 - 2:30pm
A study to determine the early features of late-onset Pompe disease (acid maltase deficiency) is seeking 250 adults who have a clinical diagnosis of unclassified limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD), an uncertain diagnosis of other forms of muscular dystrophy (MD), or an unclassified myopathy (muscle disease) who do not carry any biochemical, metabolic, enzymatic, serologic (blood), molecular or
News on Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Friedreich's ataxia, autoimmune diseases, and cell and gene therapies
posted on September 24, 2010 - 1:39pm
Duchenne muscular dystrophy
VCP gene mutations have been linked to some cases of inherited ALS; VCP mutations also are known to cause a form of inclusion-body myopathy
posted on December 22, 2010 - 9:53am
A multinational study group, using cutting-edge "exome sequencing" technology, has uncovered five mutations in the valosin-containing protein (VCP) gene and implicated them as molecular causes of some familial forms of ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease).
In this first of several reports on MDA's Clinical Conference, the role of genetics and immunology in different neuromuscular diseases is described
posted on March 19, 2012 - 3:08pm
More than 500 physicians, allied health care professionals and MDA staff attended the MDA's 2012 Clinical Conference in Las Vegas, March 4-7.
The program emphasized:
A multicenter research team has used gene therapy to improve muscle function in a single study participant with hereditary inclusion-body myositis
posted on May 21, 2010 - 9:25am
Scientists at five U.S. institutions have successfully used gene therapy to improve muscle function in a single human subject with a hereditary form of inclusion-body myositis (IBM) caused by mutations of the GNE gene. Study results were published online March 30, in the Journal of Gene Medicine.
The least understood inflammatory myopathy is finally yielding to researchers' probes
posted on April 1, 2001 - 10:12am
On winter mornings in icy Prescott, Wis., Ed Bankston gets up early, and, as he has done for many years, drives to his office in St. Paul, Minn. Bankston, 55, has been an attorney with the St. Paul District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers since 1988, and he now heads the district's legal department.
Injections of genes for the muscle-growth protein follistatin strengthened leg muscles in monkeys
posted on November 12, 2009 - 10:00pm
Four macaque monkeys that received injections of genes for a protein called follistatin into upper leg muscles experienced pronounced and durable increases in muscle size and strength with no adverse effects, say researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, and Ohio State University.
The findings could have implications for people with muscular dystrophies and other...
