Antisense oligonucleotide (AO) mediated exon skipping has been widely explored as a therapeutic strategy for several diseases, in particular, for rare genetic disorders such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). To date, the potential of anhydrohexitol nucleic acid (HNA), cyclohexenyl nucleic acid (CeNA) and altritol nucleic acid (ANA) has not been explored in exon skipping. For the first time,...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a fatal muscle-wasting disease characterized by dystrophin deficiency from mutations in the dystrophin gene. Antisense oligonucleotide (AO)-mediated exon skipping targets restoration of the dystrophin reading frame to allow production of an internally deleted dystrophin protein with functional benefit for DMD patients who have out-of-frame deletions. After a...

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Background: Breakfast skipping is traditionally viewed as a bad habit. The customary choice for those who skip breakfast brunch. Changes in gastrointestinal function are correlated with range of dietary factors. Objective: To evaluate the correlation type first meal day dyspepsia among patients visiting gastroenterology clinics dyspeptic symptoms. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conduct...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), the commonest form of muscular dystrophy, is caused by lack of dystrophin. One of the most promising therapeutic approaches is antisense-mediated elimination of frame-disrupting mutations by exon skipping. However, this approach faces two major hurdles: limited applicability of each individual target exon and uncertain function and stability of each resulting ...

Antisense-mediated exon skipping is currently in clinical development for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) to amend the consequences of the underlying genetic defect and restore dystrophin expression. Due to turnover of compound, transcript, and protein, chronic treatment with effector molecules (antisense oligonucleotides) will be required. To investigate the dynamics and persistence of antis...

As data volumes continue to grow, modern database systems increasingly rely on data skipping mechanisms to improve performance by avoiding access to irrelevant data. Recent work [39] proposed a fine-grained partitioning scheme that was shown to improve the opportunities for data skipping in row-oriented systems. Modern analytics and big data systems increasingly adopt columnar storage schemes, ...

The severe muscle wasting disorder Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is caused by genetic defects in the DMD gene, leading to a complete absence of dystrophin protein. Of the therapeutic approaches addressing the underlying genetic defect, exon skipping through antisense oligonucleotides (AONs) is the closest to clinical application. Several strategies to improve the efficiency of this approach...

The dystrophin gene is the largest gene in the human genome, and it codes for a protein which plays an important role in anchoring the cytoskeleton to the cell membrane. Mutations in the gene may cause Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) or Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD), an allelic variant. Currently genetic therapy holds great promise in finding a cure through exon skipping by restoring the pr...

Incited by public fascination and engineering application, water-skipping of rigid stones and spheres has received considerable study. While these objects can be coaxed to ricochet, elastic spheres demonstrate superior water-skipping ability, but little is known about the effect of large material compliance on water impact physics. Here we show that upon water impact, very compliant spheres nat...