A novel high-throughput immunofluorescence analysis method for quantifying dystrophin intensity in entire transverse sections of Duchenne muscular dystrophy muscle biopsy samples.

Clinical trials using strategies aimed at inducing dystrophin expression in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) are underway or at advanced planning stage, including splice switching antisense oligonucleotides (AON), drugs to induce read-through of nonsense mutations and viral mediated gene therapy. I...

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Main Authors: Valentina Sardone, Matthew Ellis, Silvia Torelli, Lucy Feng, Darren Chambers, Deborah Eastwood, Caroline Sewry, Rahul Phadke, Jennifer E Morgan, Francesco Muntoni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5868811?pdf=render