Tamoxifen prolongs survival and alleviates symptoms in mice with fatal X-linked myotubular myopathy
oleh: Elinam Gayi, Laurence A. Neff, Xènia Massana Muñoz, Hesham M. Ismail, Marta Sierra, Thomas Mercier, Laurent A. Décosterd, Jocelyn Laporte, Belinda S. Cowling, Olivier M. Dorchies, Leonardo Scapozza
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2018-11-01 |
Deskripsi
X-linked myotubular myopathy (XLMTM) is a severe muscle disease with no effective treatment. Here, the authors show that tamoxifen, a drug used to treat breast cancer, rescues the pathology in a mouse model of the disease, at least in part by normalizing expression of the disease modifier proteins DNM2 and BIN1