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ERDERA, a European partnership ushering in a new era in rare disease research – Interview with Dr Gisèle Bonne
On 02/10/2024
The European Research Alliance for Rare Diseases (ERDERA) is a European partnership that aims to improve the lives of millions of rare disease patients in…
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Review of gene therapy approaches in CMT
On 24/09/2024
An increasing number of gene therapy products are being developed for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. This article provides an overview of the main approaches under study: a…
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A unique microscopy technology has revealed previously unknown mechanisms of endocytosis in the axon – Interview with Stéphane Vassilopoulos
On 23/09/2024
Satish Babu Moparthi, post-doctoral fellow, and Stéphane Vassilopoulos, co-director of the ‘Muscle cell organization and therapy of dominant centronuclear myopathy‘ team at the Research Centre of…
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Cardiovascular damage in McArdle’s disease
On 23/09/2024
A review of the literature on cardiovascular damage in McArdle disease, or type V glycogenosis, shows that : 21 cases have been described, including 18…
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Losmapimod fails in facioscapulohumeral myopathy
On 19/09/2024
The initial results of the REACH Phase III placebo-controlled trial evaluating losmapimod in 260 adults with FSHD1 or FSHD2 over one year have just been…
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The Fondation Leducq has recently awarded funding to the PRIORITY international network of excellence, coordinated by Dr Gisèle Bonne.
On 18/09/2024
The PRIORITY international network of excellence has just been awarded an $8,000,000 grant from the Fondation Leducq. PRIORITY is a research consortium of 8 partners,…
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The relationship between muscle strength and function in the upper limb now better established in DMD and SMA
On 18/09/2024
Researchers coordinated by the Institute of Myology have studied the threshold of muscle strength loss beyond which motor function is compromised in the hand: 91…
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Congenital myasthenic syndrome linked to CHRNE: forms of variable severity
On 16/09/2024
A phenotypic study of a series of 91 Bulgarian Roma patients with congenital myasthenic syndrome linked to the homozygous c.1327delG mutation of the CHRNE gene,…
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Description of a fifth family of type 4 distal oculopharyngeal myopathy
On 13/09/2024
Distal oculopharyngeal myopathy (DOPM) type 4 is due to a CGG repeat expansion in the RILP1 gene. First described in 2022, it has only been…
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A comparison focusing on thymic histology between different cohorts of myasthenia gravis
On 12/09/2024
Researchers at the Institute of Myology used a French database to compare early-onset (217) and classic forms of myasthenia (721): the files from this database…
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The SH3 domain interactome of amphiphysin 2 in centronuclear myopathies
On 12/09/2024
While amphiphysin 2 uses its BAR domain to anchor to cell membranes and cause them to bend, it also has an SH3 domain at the…
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What about the use of statins in hereditary myopathies?
On 11/09/2024
An Israeli expert in neuromuscular diseases has examined the still controversial issue of statins in routine myological practice. Based on the literature, the author draws…
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The links between muscular dystrophy and TRAPPC11 are becoming clearer
On 10/09/2024
The TRAPPC11 gene encodes a component of a protein complex involved in intracellular trafficking between the Golgi apparatus and the endoplasmic reticulum. Czech researchers have…
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The MYOCAPTURE project improves molecular understanding of congenital myopathies
On 09/09/2024
Between 2009 and 2018, whole exome sequencing of 310 families affected by congenital myopathy as part of the MYOCAPTURE project, supported by the AFM-Téléthon, identified…
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New hypotheses on the pathophysiology of inclusion myositis
On 06/09/2024
The pathophysiology of inclusion body myositis (IBM) remains poorly understood. Against this background, American researchers have put forward some new hypotheses: their study looked at…
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Real-life study confirms the place of eculizumab in myasthenia gravis
On 06/09/2024
The retrospective multicentre ELEVATE study in the United States involved 14 myologists and neurologists who prescribed eculizumab to 119 of their patients suffering from Myasthenia…
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Does thymectomy have harmful long-term consequences?
On 06/09/2024
A retrospective study recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine has raised the question of an increased long-term risk, in terms of cancer,…
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DMD: a gene therapy strategy more effective than microdystrophin in mdx mice
On 05/09/2024
Within a month of each other, a German-American and a Chinese-American team published the proof of concept of a gene therapy strategy leading to the…
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‘Universal’ CAR-T cells in autoimmune necrotising myopathy (and scleroderma)
On 05/09/2024
In February 2024, an initial Chinese team published the case of a patient suffering from a refractory form of autoimmune necrotising myopathy, who went into…
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Heart transplants and muscular dystrophies: reticence shattered
On 04/09/2024
A review of the literature on the 275 heart transplants performed for muscular dystrophies up to July 2023 shows that : these operations involved 116…