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A pilot study of the effect of gentamicin on nasal potential difference measurements in cystic fibrosis patients carrying stop mutations.
American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine - 1 Mar 2000
Wilschanski M, Famini C, Blau H, Rivlin J, Augarten A, Avital A, Kerem B, Kerem E
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Mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene containing a premature termination signal are expected to produce little or no CFTR chloride channels. It has been shown in vitro, that aminoglycoside antibiotics can increase the frequency of erroneous insertion of nonsense codons hence permitting the translation of CFTR alleles carrying missense mutations to continue reading to the...
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