Neuromuscular and Neurodegenerative Diseases: Towards Personalized Medicine, Therapeutics and Improved Mechanistic Understanding, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Journal of Personalized Medicine (ISSN 2075-4426). This special issue belongs to the section "Mechanisms of Diseases".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2024) | Viewed by 1839
Special Issue Editors
Interests: neuromuscular disorders; motor neuron diseases; extracellular vesicles; mitochondrial biogenesis; muscle ageing; myoblasts; DNA methylation; Duchenne-Becker; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS); spino-bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA); spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)
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Interests: neuromuscular disorders; therapeutics; adeno-associated-virus (AAV); muscle cell immortalization; iPS; animal model; facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD); myotonic dystrophy; Duchenne-Becker- and limb girdle muscular dystrophy
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Interests: stratified medicine; neuromuscular disease; systems biology; integrative bioinformatics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue focuses on neuromuscular and neurodegenerative diseases in childhood and adult life (including muscular dystrophies, spinal muscular atrophies, myotonic syndromes, metabolic myopathies, myasthenia gravis, hereditary myopathies, metabolic and inflammatory myopathies, motor neuron diseases, dementia, Parkinsonism, Huntington disease etc).
Advancing research for neuromuscular and neurodegenerative diseases requires a coordinated effort between clinicians, scientists, patients and their families, and other stakeholders. This collaboration drives the collection of samples and the direction of clinical investigation, and combined with recent progress in terms of genetic and genomic analysis has enabled the research community to make real gains towards improvements in patient care, such as the identification of specific genetic factors that have a key role in pathogenesis. Indeed, genetic and genomic analyses not only allow the identification of monogenic and polygenic causes of heritable diseases, but can also identify modifiers that can influence the course and severity of a given disease.
The identification of different groups and subgroups of patients affected by a specific disease pushes the scientific community to move toward personalised/stratified therapeutic strategies. The recent development of multidisciplinary approaches such as multi-omics analysis, electrophysiological and neuroimaging measures, as well as cellular and animal models is having an important impact on medical advances for these types of disease.
Deciphering the cascade of mechanisms being affected in each subgroup improves our understanding of a given disease and helps us to identify biomarkers and therapeutic strategies.
This Special Issue is dedicated to recent research progress in neuromuscular and neurodegenerative diseases, with a focus on:
- Biomarkers: diagnostic, prognostic, patient stratification, wet biomarkers (in body fluids), dry biomarkers (imaging, neuroimaging, electrophysiology);
- Clinical indicators;
- Mechanisms explaining or contributing to irreversible cell loss;
- Therapeutic strategies.
Up-to-date original research papers, communications and reviews will be considered.
We look forward to your contributions to this Special Issue.
Dr. Stephanie Duguez
Prof. Dr. Julie Dumonceaux
Dr. William Duddy
Dr. Gavin McCluskey
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- neuromuscular diseases
- neurodegenerative diseases
- functional genomics
- gene therapies
- molecular biology
- patient stratification
- therapeutic strategies
- biomarkers
- electrophysiological measures
- neuroimaging
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