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Moxifloxacin rescues SMA phenotypes in patient-derived cells and animal model.
Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS - 22 Jul 2022
Januel Camille, Menduti Giovanna, Mamchaoui Kamel, Martinat Cecile, Artero Ruben, Konieczny Piotr, Boido Marina
Abstract excerpt
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a genetic disease resulting in the loss of α-motoneurons followed by muscle atrophy. It is caused by knock-out mutations in the survival of motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene, which has an unaffected, but due to preferential exon 7 skipping, only partially functional human-specific SMN2 copy. We previously described a Drosophila-based screening of FDA-approved drugs that led us to...
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