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Gene therapy and other novel treatment approaches for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.
Neuromuscular disorders : NMD - 1 Aug 2023
Pisciotta Chiara, Pareyson Davide
Abstract excerpt
There is still no effective drug treatment available for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT). Current management relies on rehabilitation therapy, surgery for skeletal deformities, and symptomatic treatment. The challenge is to find disease-modifying therapies. Several approaches, including gene silencing (by means of ASO, siRNA, shRNA, miRNA, CRISPR-Cas9 editing), to counteract the PMP22 gene overexpression in the...
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