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Diverse small-molecule modulators of SMN expression found by high-throughput compound screening: early leads towards a therapeutic for spinal muscular atrophy
8 Jun 2005
Abstract excerpt
We have exploited the existence of a second copy of the human SMN gene (SMN2) to develop a high-throughput screening strategy to identify potential small molecule therapeutics for the genetic disease spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), which is caused by the loss of the SMN1 gene. Our screening process was designed to identify synthetic compounds that increase the total amount of full-length SMN messenger RNA and...
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