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Inherited neuromuscular disorders encompass a broad group of genetic conditions, and the discovery of these underlying genes has expanded greatly in the past three decades. The discovery of such genes...
Lancet Child Adolesc Health - issue: 8 - volume: 2 - pages: 600-609.

The nuclear lamina (NL) is a filamentous protein meshwork, composed essentially of lamins, situated between the inner nuclear membrane and the chromatin. The NL is a component of the nuclear envelope,...
Basic Clin Androl - issue: - volume: 28 - pages: 7.

We review here some of the historical highlights in exploratory studies of the vertebrate embryonic structure known as the neural crest. The study of the molecular properties of the cells that it...
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Skeletal muscle cells possess a unique cellular architecture designed to fulfill their contractile function. Muscle cells (also known as myofibers) result from the fusion of hundreds of myoblasts and...
Semin. Cell Dev. Biol. - issue: - volume: 82 - pages: 51-56.

The syndromic diarrhea/trichohepatoenteric syndrome (SD/THE) is a rare and multi-system genetic disorder caused by mutation in SKIV2L or in TTC37, two genes encoding subunits of the putative human SKI...
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Muscle stem cells, or satellite cells, are required for skeletal muscle maintenance, growth, and repair. Following satellite cell activation, several factors drive asymmetric cell division to generate...
Cell Stem Cell - issue: 5 - volume: 23 - pages: 653-664.

Skeletal muscle has the capacity of regeneration after injury. However, for large volumes of muscle loss, this regeneration needs interventional support. Consequently, muscle injury provides an...
Biomed Res Int - issue: - volume: 2018 - pages: 1984879.

Despite advances in medical, surgical, and critical care, infective endocarditis (IE) remains associated with considerable morbidity and mortality. We evaluated the performance of the Marseille score,...
- issue: 5 - volume: 37 - pages: 841-849.

LHX3 is an LIM domain transcription factor involved in the early steps of pituitary ontogenesis. We report here functional studies of three allelic variants, including the first heterozygous variant...
- issue: 2 - volume: 27 - pages: 216-225.

Test yourself in this educational case establishing the nature of the cells present in a pleural effusion of a patient with history of previous skin cancer.
- issue: 6 - volume: 29 - pages: 587-589.

Neuroblastoma is the most common solid tumour of childhood, yet the prognosis for high risk disease remains poor. We demonstrate that arginine metabolism via Arginase 2 (ARG2) drives neuroblastoma...
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Skeletal muscle undergoes many micro-membrane lesions at physiological state. Based on their sizes and magnitude these lesions are repaired via different complexes on a specific spatio-temporal...
J Neuromuscul Dis - issue: 1 - volume: 5 - pages: 21-28.

Early myoclonic epilepsy (EME) or Aicardi syndrome is one of the most severe epileptic syndromes affecting neonates. We performed whole exome sequencing in a sporadic case affected by EME and his...
Hum. Mutat. - issue: 7 - volume: 39 - pages: 934-938.

Rett Syndrome is a severe neurological disorder mainly due to de novo mutations in the methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 gene ( MECP2). Mecp2 is known to play a role in chromatin organization and...
F1000Res - issue: - volume: 7 - pages: 398.

Objective: Rett Syndrome (RTT) is a severe neurodevelopmental condition with breathing disorders, affecting around one in 10,000 female births. Desipramine, a noradrenaline reuptake inhibitor, reduced...
Ann Clin Transl Neurol - issue: 2 - volume: 5 - pages: 118-127.

INTRODUCTION: A large number of genes involved in autosomal recessive forms of intellectual disability (ID) were identified over the past few years through whole-exome sequencing (WES) or whole-genome...
Eur. J. Hum. Genet. - issue: 1 - volume: 26 - pages: 143-148.

PURPOSE: Inherited peripheral neuropathies (IPN) represent a large heterogenous group of hereditary diseases with more than 100 causative genes reported to date. In this context, targeted...
BMJ Open - issue: 10 - volume: 8 - pages: e021632.

BACKGROUND: According to the Catalogue of Transmission Genetics in Arabs, less than half of diseases reported in Lebanese patients are mapped. In the recent years, Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)...
Mol Genet Genomic Med - issue: 6 - volume: 6 - pages: 1041-1052.

Dysferlinopathies are rare genetic diseases affecting muscles due to mutations in DYSF. Exon 32 of DYSF has been shown to be dispensable for dysferlin functions. Here we present a method to visualize...
Methods Mol. Biol. - issue: - volume: 1828 - pages: 489-496.