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About the economic interest of the compassionate use of innovative treatments
On 01/02/2022
Italian researchers and a Roche laboratory representative jointly analyzed the economic impact of compassionate use protocols for some innovative health products: two of the eleven…
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AcadeMYO 2022: July 11-13, 2022
On 31/01/2022
Save the date! The next session of AcadeMYO, the institute’s myology summer school, will be held from July 11 to 13, 2022, Registrations will open…
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A book to explain Duchenne muscular dystrophy to affected children
On 31/01/2022
The team from the Marseille Neuromuscular Reference Centre has designed a small book for children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). This didactic and abundantly illustrated…
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A pilot experiment in neonatal screening for primary carnitine deficiency
On 31/01/2022
Chinese clinicians from Fujian province screened 49 cases of primary carnitine deficiency at birth using a biochemical technique (tandem mass spectrometry). This neuromuscular condition is…
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CAP2: a new gene responsible for nemaline myopathy
On 28/01/2022
American researchers have identified, for the first time, a pathogenic variant of the CAP2 gene present in a heterozygous state in a sporadic form of…
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Back to the 26th Journées of the Francophone Society of the Peripheral Nerve
On 27/01/2022
The 26th “Journées of the Francophone Society of the Peripheral Nerve” took place on January 21 & 22, 2022 at the New Cap Event Center…
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Myobank-AFM ’s quality certification is renewed for 3 years
On 27/01/2022
Myobank-AFM, the Research Tissue Bank of the Institute of Myology, is a non-profit service involved in the collection, preparation, storage and distribution of human tissue…
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ERN EURO-NMD webinar, Feb 3rd: Pr Cornelia Kornblum (Germany)
On 27/01/2022
An introduction into mitochondrial diseases in adulthood Thursday February 3rd, 2022 – 16:00-17:00 (Paris time) Pr Cornelia Kornblum (Bonn University/Universitary Clinic of Bonn, Germany) “Mitochondrial…
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Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: links between interstitial lung disease and myositis-specific autoantibodies
On 25/01/2022
One of the most common extramuscular manifestations of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies is interstitial lung disease. In addition, the diagnosis of IMI includes the search for…
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Evaluation of a reference method to assess the function of the diaphragm
On 25/01/2022
The link between transdiaphragmatic pressure (TDP) and diaphragmatic thickening fraction (DTF) is a gold standard method for assessing diaphragmatic function that is not clearly established. …
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Charles Frison-Roche wins Oral Research Communication Prize awarded by SFM – Interview
On 24/01/2022
Charles Frison-Roche has received the Oral Research Communication Prize, awarded by the French Myology Society (SFM). He is a PhD student in the REDs team…
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Benefits of wheelchair hockey identified in SMA and DMD
On 24/01/2022
An Italian study of 25 men aged between 18 and 40 with SMA or DMD investigated the effects of playing wheelchair hockey on quality of…
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The Institute of Myology is recruiting a Data Project Manager
On 24/01/2022
The Institute of Myology Located in Paris, at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, the largest public hospital in Europe, the Institute of Myology was created in 1996 by…
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Circulating neurofilaments: a sensitive biomarker in SMA
On 20/01/2022
An American study carried out in 90 children under three with SMA evaluated the interest of quantifying circulating neurofilaments (NF) to detect the disease and…
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Alternative splicing helps control the plasticity of clathrin structures
On 20/01/2022
Depending on cell types, clathrin assembles into plaques or produces spherical structures for some unknown reason, just as we do not know how this plasticity…
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A first survey of limb-girdle muscular dystrophy in Mali
On 20/01/2022
The limb-girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMD) continue to be highly heterogeneous neuromuscular diseases, both in clinical and genetic terms. Exploring these disorders in Africa is not…
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The assessment of neuromuscular disease patients by physiotherapists is adapting to pandemic conditions
On 19/01/2022
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has disrupted hospital organisations, with respect to both care and clinical research. Physiotherapists essentially from the US and the UK report their…
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A case of necrotising autoimmune myopathy with inflammatory skin lesions
On 18/01/2022
Necrotising autoimmune myopathy (NAM) is caused by immune system deregulation. The inflammatory component is generally very low key, contrarily to the other types of autoimmune…
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A new non-invasive biomarker in SMA
On 18/01/2022
German researchers have developed a new tool intended to visualise and measure muscle loss in patients with SMN1-gene proximal spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Multispectral optoacoustic…
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M&M’s – Muscle Monday Seminar – 24 January – Florent Ginhoux (Singapore)
On 18/01/2022
Macrophage Biology: From Development to Functions Monday January 24th, 2022 – 12:00 – 13:00 Florent Ginhoux (Senior Principal Investigator, Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) Agency for…