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4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Puymirat J ; Bouchard JP ; Mathieu J | 2011Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of methylphenidate for the treatment of excessive daytime somnolence (EDS) in patients with myotonic dystrophytype 1(DM1). Methods: twenty-four patients with DM1 with the Epworth Sleepiness sc[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Kergourlay V ; Barthelemy F ; Wein N ; Krahn M ; Bartoli M | 2011Dysferlin is a type II transmembrane protein implicated in membrane repair in muscle. Mutations in the gene DYSF lead mainly to limb girdle muscular dystrophy 2B and Miyoshi myopathy. Dysferlin is composed of several homologous C2 domains and do[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Fugier C ; Klein A ; Hammer C ; Vassilopoulos S ; Ivarsson Y ; Vignaud A ; Ferry A ; Messaddeq N ; Thibault C ; Garcia L ; Bassez G ; Laporte J ; Furling D ; Charlet Berguerand N | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Myotonic dystrophy (DM) is the most common muscular dystrophy in adults and comprises two genetically distinct forms, both of which are caused by expansions of microsatellite repeats. The expansion of a CTG repeat in the 3'-UTR of the DMPK gene [...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Desaphy JF ; Carbonara R ; Costanza T ; Muraglia M ; Corbo F ; Lentini G ; Franchini C ; Conte Camerino D | 2011Mexiletine (Mex) and tocainide (Toc) are two sodium channel blockers marketed as class IB antiarrhythmic drugs and used off label as antimyotonic drug. In particular, Mex is considered as the first choice drug by many and a clinical trial is goi[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Bastide B ; Cieniewski-Bernard C ; Montel V | 2011O-N-acetylglucosaminylation, termed O-GlcNAcation (O-GlcNAc), is a reversible post-translational modification which presents a dynamic and highly regulated interplay with phosphorylation. New insights strongly suggest that this atypical glycosyl[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Dupont E ; Cieniewski-Bernard C ; Bastide B ; Stevens L | 2011Numerous investigations provided strong evidence that the modulation of the activity of specific cell signaling pathways has an important role in neuromuscular disease progression and the development of therapies. We analyzed the role of PI3K-AK[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Hamadouche T ; Cherrallah A ; Keskes S ; Nouioua S ; Makri S ; Bakour R ; Chaouch M ; Tazir M ; Benhassine T | 2011Progressive muscular dystrophies includes a set of clinical affections characterized by a progressive degenerative process that affects muscular fibers, however displaying a great phenotypic and genetic heterogeneity.In this work, 200 patients w[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Trollet C ; Anvar S ; Venema A ; Hargreaves I ; Foster K ; Vignaud A ; Ferry A ; Negroni E ; Gidaro T ; Hourde C ; Baraibar M ; Hoen P ; Davies J ; Rubinsztein D ; Heales S ; Mouly V ; van der Maarel S ; Raz V ; Butler Browne G ; Dickson G | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) is an adult-onset disorder characterized by ptosis, dysphagia and proximal limb weakness. Autosomal dominant OPMD is caused by a short (GCG)8-13 expansions within the first exon of the poly(A) binding pr[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Karmouch J ; Sigoillot S ; Bourgeois F ; Krejci E ; Chevalier C ; Houlgatte R ; Leger J ; Legay C | 2011Congenital myasthenic syndromes (CMS) correspond to a class of human pathologies resulting from mutations in genes expressed at the neuromuscular junction (NMJ). These disorders are characterized by a dysfunction of the NMJ leading to muscle wea[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Huguet A ; Medja F ; Nicole A ; Vignaud A ; Ferry A ; Guiraud-Dogan C ; Mousiel E ; Metzger F ; Sebille A ; Gomes Pereira M ; Puymirat J ; Bassez G ; Furling D ; Gourdon G | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Myotonic dystrophy type I (DM1) is a dominant disease, highly variable and associated with multisystemic symptoms. The adult onset form presents muscle weakness, myotonia, cardio-respiratory problems, cataracts, hypersomnia, hyperinsulinism, tes[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Delalande O ; Del Giudice E ; Hubert JF ; Le Rumeur E | 2011Dystrophin is a long filamentous protein, its central region is made by 24 successive spectrin-like repeats structured in a coiled-coil (bundle of three alpha-helices) arrangement [1]. Its biological function is essential for keeping the integri[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Segura L ; Escobar Cedillo RE | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Introduction: The motor sensory neuropathies Charcot Marie Tooth (CMT) can be classify genetically as type 1, 2 and x link chromosome, later can be divided in subtypes A, B and C based on the genotype. CMT is the most common hereditary neuropath[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Karine C ; Daniele N ; Florence L ; Vihola A ; Roudaut C ; Monjaret F ; Pion D ; Tarrade A ; Sarparanta J ; Udd B ; Richard I | 2011Titin is a giant protein expressed in both skeletal and cardiac muscles. Several pathogenic mutations were identified in its two last exons causing muscular dystrophy phenotypes. The most common mutation, FINmaj, results in the replacement of 4 [...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Bertrand A ; Renou L ; Papadopoulos A ; Beuvin M ; Lacene E ; Arimura T ; Gruenbaum Y ; Bonne G | 2011LMNA gene encodes for lamins A/C, ubiquitous proteins of the nuclear envelope in post-mitotic cells. Lamin A/C are thought to have structural but also essential regulatory roles in various signalization pathways by interactions with transcriptio[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Rome S ; Forterre A ; Chikh K ; Jalabert A ; Pesenti S ; Euthine V ; Nemoz G ; Lefai E ; Vidal H | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Exosomes are nanovesicles of endocytic origin secreted by different cell types including epithelial, hematopoietic, and some tumor cells. They are also present in some biological fluids such as serum, urine, breast milk, and bronchoalveolar lava[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Sdika M ; Tonson A ; Cozzone PJ ; Bendahan D | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Introduction: Accurate muscle size quantification is essential to investigate muscle function related to exercise adaptation, ageing and neuromuscular pathologies. Currently, MRI muscle volume quantification is the gold standard; however this te[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Rosa A ; Corona ED ; Jacquelin D | AFM-TELETHON | 2011MULTIPLE PROTEIN DOMAINS CONTRIBUTE TO NUCLEAR ENTRANCE OF DUX4 E. Daniel Corona, Daniela Jacquelin and Alberto L. RosaLaboratorio de Biologelular y Molecular, Fundacilende, Hipo Irigoyen 384, Cba, Argentina. Twelve years ago it was hypothesized[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Reedy A ; Gieseler K | 2011Proteotoxicity, as defined by cellular pathologies associated with detrimental protein products, has been well defined in neurodegenerative disease such as Alzheimer's, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Huntington and Parkinson's diseases. Th[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; van den Berg L ; Drost M ; Schaart G ; de Laat J ; van Doorn P ; van der Ploeg A ; Reuser A | 2011Background: Pompe disease is an inherited lysosomal glycogen storage disorder caused by the deficiency of acid a-glucosidase. Skeletal muscle damage is attributed to lysosomal rupture and the release of glycogen and lysosomal enzymes into the cy[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Brigite M ; Adriouch S ; Authier FJ ; Boyer O ; Gherardi RK ; Chrétien F | 2011Myology textbooks describe muscle fibroblasts on the grounds of EM studies as independent cells and envisage them only as collagen-producing cells. Lack of muscle fibroblast marker likely represents one cause of our ignorance about this cell sub[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Chen SF | 2011Purpose: To study the ultrastructural changes of muscle in patients with cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis (CTX) and make a correlation with the Tc99m-sestamibi thighSPECT/CT images (a noninvasive tool for the evaluation of the mitochondrial status[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Trollet C ; Perie S ; Gidaro T ; Mamchaoui K ; Negroni E ; Bouazza B ; Svinartchouk F ; Blumen S ; Mouly V ; Lacau Saint Guily J ; Butler Browne G | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) is an autosomal dominant inherited, slow progressing, late onset degenerative muscle disorder, characterized by progressive eyelid drooping (ptosis) and difficulties with swallowing (dysphagia). The phar[...]Article
Muscle proteins and cellular dynamics during somitogenesis and early myogenesis in zebrafish embryos
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Ruf-Zamojski F ; Trinh L ; Megason S ; Trivedi V ; Fraser SE | AFM-TELETHON | 2011High-resolution cellular and molecular data from developing organisms has driven many of the advances in developmental biology. These same approaches, applied to muscle biology, should enable a better understanding of the key events of dynamics [...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Feferman T ; Sylvain B ; Mélinée C ; Mouly V ; Tzartos S ; Fuchs S ; Souroujon M ; Berrih-Aknin S | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Anti-acetylcholine receptor (AChR) autoantibodies target the muscle in human spontaneous MG and its induced model experimental autoimmune MG (EAMG). The aim of the study was to identify the common and specific molecular signatures of the muscle [...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Del Fraro G ; Meregalli M ; Farini A ; Belicchi M ; Parolini D ; Razini P ; Cassinelli L ; Angeloni V ; Maciotta S ; Bresolin N ; de Silva Bizario J ; Garcia L ; Torrente Y | 2011In DMD, skeletal and cardiac muscles are affected, leading to wheelchair dependency, respiratory failure and premature death. A combination of different strategies might enhance the possibility of successful therapy. We isolated CD133+ cells fro[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Bonnamy B ; Barrey E ; Mata X ; Chaffaux S ; Guerin G | 2011MicroRNAs (miRNA) are small endogenous non-coding interfering RNA molecules (18-25 nucleotides) regarded as major regulators in eukaryotic gene expression. They play a role in developmental timing, cellular differentiation, signaling and apoptos[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Rafai MA ; Manaf S ; Raji L ; Oumari S ; Boulaajaj F ; Ridai M ; El Moutawakil B ; Slassi I | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Introduction : Epidemiological data showed that 10-20% of myasthenic patients have a thymoma. Object: to report cases of myasthenia gravis revealing invasive thymoma, and to specify the particularities of the association myasthenia gravis-invasi[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Vohanka S ; Bednarik J ; Fajkusova L ; Sedlackova J | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (MD1) is an autosomal-dominant multisystemic disorder linked to a monoallelic expansion of the CTG n repeat in the 3 untranslated region of the DM protein kinase (DMPK) gene. Healthy individuals have repeats of n= 5-37,[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Vasseur S ; Mauda C | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Myobank-AFM at the Institut de Myologie: human tissue samples and byproducts at the disposal of the scientists in the field of neuromuscular diseases.Thomas Voit Maud Chapart Stane VasseurThe AFM tissue bank for research was created in 1996. It [...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Bel C ; Bidault des Chaumes A ; Mahaut I ; Orssaud L | 2011What is Myobase ?Myobase is a bilingual database (French/English) which provides access to bibliographic information updated daily in the field of myology and motor handicap. It is implemented by the AFM Library. What would you find in Myobase ?[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Lambert V ; Capderou A ; Gouadon E ; Le Bret E ; Rucker-Martin C ; Dinanian S ; Stos B ; Renaud JF | 2011Purpose: Advances in cardiac surgery have improved short-term prognoses of patients with congenital heart diseases but, at long-term, right ventricular (RV) failure may occur, leading to morbidity and mortality. As conventional therapy gives poo[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Santosh V | 2011Myofibrillar myopathies(MFM) are uncommon, clinically and genetically heterogenous conditions morphologically characterized by myofibrillar structural changes. six cases of MFM diagnosed between 2003-2010 basing on light and electron microscopic[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Clément N ; Pisani D ; Sacconi S ; Desnuelle C ; Dani C ; Dechesne CA | 2011INTRODUCTION: Muscle-derived cells are able to differentiate towards osteogenic, chondrogenic or adipogenic lineage, in addition of their myogenic potential. Thisraises many biological and clinical questions. The cellular bases and the role of t[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Liao H ; Adriouch S ; Authier FJ ; Boyer O ; Gherardi RK | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Myoinjury elicits an innate immune response with local generation of monocyte-derived "inflammatory" dendritic cells (Brigitte et al, Arthritis Rheum 2010). The adaptative immune response takes place in draining lymph nodes (dLNs) and spleen whe[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Espartaco R ; Margaret M ; Eck P ; Leroy F ; Moirot P ; Lamy T ; Françoise C | 2011An obese (1m65, 105 kg) woman presented since the age of 53 years, in 2002, a facial weakness, initially left, then bilateral, associated with an hypoesthesia in the territory of the lower branch of the fifth cranial nerve and with a paralysis o[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Etienne M ; Giannesini B ; Mille-Hamard L ; Relizani K ; Denis R ; Hourde C ; Agbulut O ; Lutzkendorf S ; Arandel L ; Vignaud A ; Garcia L ; Ferry A ; Luquet S ; Billat V ; Bendahan D ; Ventura-Clapier R ; Schuelke M ; Amthor H | 2011The function of myostatin to restrict growth of the body musculature is often regarded as disadvantageous, because muscle prowess commonly associates with health and fitness.Here, we show that larger skeletal muscle that developed in absence of [...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Chelh I ; Hadj Sassi A ; Pires-Alves A ; Cottin P | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Myostatin (MSTN), a growth factor member of the TGF-beta superfamily acts as a negative regulator of skeletal muscle growth and then contributes to muscle atrophy. The objective of this study* was to determine the interactions between this growt[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Gentil C ; Mouisel E ; Amthor H ; Ferry A ; Voit T ; Garcia L ; Pietri Rouxel F | AFM-TELETHON | 2011In skeletal muscle, the _1 S subunit of the DHPR calcium channel functions both as the L-type Ca2+ channel and the voltage sensor for excitation-contraction coupling. We have combined optimized U7snRNA and gene transfer to achieve long-lasting d[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Relizani K | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Objective: Abrogation of activin-receptor signaling such as myostatin blockade stimulates skeletal muscle growth and is regarded as a potential therapeutic strategy against muscle wasting in muscular dystrophies. We previously explored the myost[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Rodriguez J ; Hayot M ; Vernus B ; Carnac G ; Jean E ; Allen D ; Goret L ; Obert P ; Candau R ; Bonnieu A | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Myostatin, a member of the TGF-_ superfamily of ligands, has been shown to be a negative regulator of skeletal muscle mass during embryogenesis and early postnatal muscle growth. Several studies indicate that myostatin is an important mediator o[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Hernandez-Hernandez O ; Guiraud-Dogan C ; Sicot G ; Luilier S ; Saenger S ; Obriot H ; Huguet A ; Nicole A ; Marsiniak E ; Revillod L ; Bizot JC ; Humez S ; Bassez G ; Metzger F ; Sergeant N ; Gourdon G ; Gomes Pereira M | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Although traditionally regarded as a muscle disease, myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) has emerged as a brain disorder. The congenital form of the disease presents severe mental retardation, whereas hypersomnia, learning problems, personality chan[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Makri S ; Salhi S ; Richard P ; Terki N ; Romero NB ; Guicheney P ; Kaci-Ahmed MA | 2011Introduction. Mutations in the FKRP gene result in a wide spectrum of clinical conditions ranging from of congenital muscular dystophy (MDC1C) to a milder form of limb girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD2I). Both intelligence and brain imaging have [...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Jacquette A ; Lemaitre H ; Angeard N ; Eymard B ; Whalen S ; Desguerre I ; Brunelle F ; Zilbovicius M ; Heron D ; Boddaert N | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is an autosomal dominant inherited neuromuscular condition caused by an abnormal CTG triplet expansion within the 3' untranslated region of the myotonic dystrophy protein kinase (DMPK) gene on chromosome 19q35The [...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Bucher T ; Joussemet B ; Astord S ; Briot-Nivard D ; Wakeling E ; Fyfe J ; Costiou P ; Marais T ; Hogrel JY ; Voit T ; Moullier P ; Barkats M | 2011Domestic cats exhibiting a recessive form of lower motor neuron (MN) degeneration, associated with a deletion of the lix1 gene, represent a large animal model of type III spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). In this study, we first analyzed the effici[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Hanisch F ; Weidemann W ; Stoltenburg G ; Weis J ; Zierz S ; Horstkorte R | 2011Background: Hereditary inclusion body myopathy type 2 (hIBM) is a rare autosomal-recessive disorder due to mutations in the UDP-N-Acetylglucosamine2-Epimerase/NAcetylmannosamine kinase [GNE]. The model of the Gne-/-hGNED176VL-Tg mouse resembles [...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Sarzi E ; Prouteau C ; Bielicki G ; Boddaert N ; Rigau V ; Delettre C ; Hamel C ; Reynier P ; Lenaers G | AFM-TELETHON | 2011PURPOSEDominant Optic Atrophy (DOA) is an inherited mitochondrial disease mainly caused by mutations in the OPA1 gene, encoding a dynamin-related GTPase involved in mitochondrial fusion, cristae organization and control of apoptosis. DOA is char[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Cluet D ; Dibenedetto S ; Drouin E ; Spichty M ; Yu LL ; Thomas JL ; Gangloff YG ; Yuan CG ; Schaeffer L ; Zoli M ; Rudkin B ; Zhang Q ; Ding S | 2011One of the most important and time-consuming challenge in vivo studies of neuro-muscular diseases is to precisely monitor subtle and significant modifications of thecharacteristics within the myofiber population. To date, counting and shape desc[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Carole V ; Pascal R ; Bérard C | 2011Author:C. Vuillerot1, P. Rippert1, C. Brd1 and the NM-Score study group21 L'Escale, HFME, HCL, France2 France (Angers, Grenoble, Hendaye, Lille, Marseille, Montpellier, Nice, Paris, St Denis de la Rion, St Etienne, Toulouse, Vandoeuvre les Nancy[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Dangelo MG ; Gandossini S ; Sciorati C ; Bonato S ; Brighina E ; Boneschi FM ; Comi GP ; Turconi AC ; Brunelli S ; Baldelli S ; Cattaneo D ; Bresolin N ; Clementi E | 2011ObjectiveWe performed a pilot study with the primary aim to establish the safety, tolerability of a combination of the NO donor isosorbide dinitrate and the non steroid antiinflammatorydrug ibuprofen in a cohort of adult patients affected by mus[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Billiet L ; Gonçalves C ; Berchel M ; Jaffrès PA ; Montier T ; Lehn P ; Bertrand E ; El-Ghoul Y ; Cheradame H ; Guegan P ; Pichon C ; Midoux P | 2011Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is one of the most severe myopathies caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene. Gene therapy is being investigated to introduce by non viral vectors, the normal dystrophin gene into skeletal muscle cells. The k[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Piekuse L ; Lce B ; Bauze D ; Pronina N ; Daneberga Z ; Krumina A | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Case report - girl 4y of age had genetic consultation due to slight mental retardation, speech delay, autistic behavior, stereotypic movements and not developed fine motor skills. In blood biochemical investigation there were discovered slightly[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Hubert JF ; Moore S ; Delalande O ; Chéron A ; Bennett L ; Kupski W ; El-Baba M ; Le Rumeur E ; Ascadi G | 2011Missense mutations in the dystrophin gene often lead to Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) but genotype/phenotype correlation is difficult to establish. Amino acid substitutions even in the repeat region of dystrophin may disrupt binding capacities[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Rafai MA ; Ibnkhribchia R ; Boulaajaj F ; Oumari S ; Manaf S ; El Moutawakil B ; Slassi I | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Introduction: Idiopathic orbital myositis is a rare entity, considered a sub-group of the orbit's Inflammatory pseudotumori. Cases report: Case 1: A 44 years old woman admitted for bilateral orbital pain, associated periorbital oedema and diplop[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Loureiro De Sousa P ; Vignaud A ; Caldas de Almeida Araujo E ; Carlier PG | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Background. There is a strong need of non-invasive outcome measures for monitoring the natural progression of muscle disorders, particularly at the early stages of involvement. In this context, quantitative NMR imaging might provide objective ma[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Hanif M ; Pelin K ; Gronholm M ; Wallgren-Pettersson C | 2011The core objective of this study is to help elucidate the functional pathogenesis of nemaline myopathy and related disorders caused by mutations in the nebulin gene (NEB). Nebulin is a giant actin-binding protein which is located in the I-band o[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Fréret M ; Drouot L ; Ahmed Lecheheb S ; Dauly C ; Cosette P ; Authier FJ ; Boyer O | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Normal muscle fibers do not express detectable levels of class I major histocompatibility complex (MHC-I). In contrast, high-level expression of MHC-I is a hallmark of muscle autoimmune diseases such as polymyositis, inclusion-body myositis or d[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Cacheux M ; Fauré J ; Brocard J ; Monnier N ; Lunardi J ; Marty I | 2011Muscle contraction is achieved when an efficient excitation signal at the plasma membrane triggers intracellular calcium release. This process called "excitationcontraction (E-C) coupling" relies on a multimolecular protein complex, the calcium [...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Portilho D ; Mamchaoui K ; Lanzarini C ; Capri M ; Salvioli S ; Franceschi C ; van der Maarel S ; Butler Browne G ; Dumonceaux J | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD) is the third most common muscular dystrophy and it is characterized by progressive weakness and atrophy of the facial and shoulder girdle muscles. FSHD is caused by deletion of most copies of the 3.3-kb subte[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Galy A ; Sambasivan R ; Yao R ; Kissenpfennig A ; Van Wittenberghe L ; Paldi A ; Gayraud-Morel B ; Guenou H ; Malissen B ; Tajbakhsh S | AFM-TELETHON | 2011INTRODUCTION: Muscle-derived cells are able to differentiate towards osteogenic, chondrogenic or adipogenic lineage, in addition of their myogenic potential. This raises many biological and clinical questions. The cellular bases and the role of [...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Lepper C ; Partridge T ; Chen-Ming F | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Skeletal muscle tissue is prone to damage from acute physical trauma such as sport injuries as well as from daily wear and tear: this is managed by its tremendous capacity to repair itself. Cell transplantation and lineage tracing studies have d[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Kostallari E ; Lafuste P ; Baba-Amer Y ; Gherardi RK | 2011Sublaminar location has been the cornerstone of both definition and identification of muscle satellite cells (mSCs), but little attention has been paid to the anatomic organization of the mSC niche, and interplays of mSCs with their neighborhood[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Sarrazin N ; Bangratz M ; Devaux J ; Zambroni D ; Echaniz-Laguna JA ; Rene F ; Boerio D ; Davoine CS ; Fontaine B ; Feltri ML ; Benoit E ; Nicole S | 2011Schwartz-Jampel syndrome (SJS) is a recessive disorder characterized by spontaneous activity in the rest EMG that may result from peripheral nerve hyperexcitability (PNH). SJS results from a lack of perlecan, the major proteoglycan of basement m[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Daussin F ; Godin R ; Ascah A ; Deschênes S ; Petrof B ; Burelle Y | 2011We examined the mitochondrial phenotype in skeletal muscle in the early phase of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), and determined whether upregulation of mitochondrial biogenesis via PGC-1_ transfection is beneficial in the mdx mice, a murine m[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Jedrzejowska M ; Milewski M ; Zimowski J ; Kostera-Pruszczyk A ; Jurek M ; Hausmanowa-Petrusewicz I | AFM-TELETHON | 2011In this report we summarize the results of the work on the phenotype, epidemiology and molecular genetics of Polish cases of spinal muscular atrophy caused by SMN1 mutations.Biallelic loss of exon 7 of the SMN1 gene, the most frequent SMA mutati[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Briggs D ; Morgan J ; Boldrin L | 2011Satellite cells are the principal muscle stem cell, however not all satellite cells contribute equally to muscle regeneration. It is thought that there is a sub-population of satellite cells which is more 'stem cell like' than others. We aim to [...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Viollet L ; Lewelt A ; Alvarez JC ; Reyna S ; Stoddard G ; Etheridge S ; LaSalle B ; Swoboda K | AFM-TELETHON | 2011The aim of this project is to determine whether 3,4 diaminopyridine (3,4DAP) is a viable treatment candidate for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Aminopyridines are voltage dependent potassium channel inhibitors that increase the duration and the [...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Helmbacher F ; Caruso N ; Herberth B ; Bartoli M ; Dumonceaux J ; Lebossé M ; Maina F | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Generation of skeletal muscles with forms adapted to their function is essential for normal movement, and involves developmental mechanisms such as those regulating muscle diversification and migration. Understanding these developmental processe[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Roig-Borrellas A ; Diaz-Ramos MA ; García-Melero A ; Lopez-Alemany R | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Plasminogen activation system (PA) plays an important role in the degradation of extracellular matrix components. Plasmin (Pli), the activated form of plasminogen (Plg), is implicated in several biological processes such as tissue remodelating a[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Cassinelli LM ; Maciotta S ; Gandolfi F ; Forcato M ; Bicciato S ; Meregalli M ; Torrente Y | 2011Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a common X-linked disease characterized by frameshift mutations in the dystrophin gene. Among the molecular mechanisms potentially involved in DMD, we focused our attention on microRNAs (miRNAs) a new class o[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Pinto Mariz F ; Barthelemy I ; Yada E ; Voit T ; Silva-Barbosa SD ; Savino W ; Butler Browne G ; Blot S | 2011It is well known that the disease course in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) patients is heterogeneous, varying from patient to patient. Such heterogeneity is also seen in the Golden Retriever Muscular Dystrophy (GRMD) dogs. This is a drawback [...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Wahbi K ; Meune C ; Bécane HM ; Laforet P ; Behin A ; Stojkovic T ; Radvanyi-Hoffman H ; Eymard B ; Duboc D | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Background: Permanent pacing is recommended in patients with myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) for the prevention of sudden cardiac death. However its impact on mortality is unknown.Methods: We retrospectively analyzed medical information of DM1 p[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Diguet N ; Mallat Y ; Ladouce R ; Clodic G ; Tritsch E ; Blanc J ; Larcher JC ; Delcayre C ; Samuel JL ; Friguet B ; Bolbach G ; Li Z ; Mericskay M | 2011RATIONALE: Alterations in the balance between sarcomeric and extra-sarcomeric cytoskeleton as well as energetic proteins are involved in the remodelling of cardiomyocytes cytoarchitecture in dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). OBJECTIVE: Inactivation [...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Benedetti S ; Magagnotti C ; Bachi A ; Zerbini G ; Fattore E ; Riba M ; Previtali S ; M.Ferrari ; Andolfo A | 2011Lamins A/C, encoded by the LMNA gene, are intermediate filaments of the nuclear lamina playing multiple roles in nuclear integrity, chromatin organization and transcriptional control. Defects in the LMNA gene have been associated with a growing [...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Denard J ; Beley C ; Kotin R ; Samulski J ; Moullier P ; Voit T ; Garcia L ; Svinartchouk F | 2011Despite the well-established safety and efficacy of rAAV vectors for in vivo gene transfer, there is still little information concerning the fate of vectors after systemic delivery. By using a proteomic approach, we screened for serum proteins i[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Barthelemy I ; Thibaud JL ; Aguilar P ; Le Chevoir M ; Blot S | 2011Most of DMD (Duchenne muscular dystrophy) patients die from respiratory failure. Their canine homologues, GRMD (Golden retriever muscular dystrophy) dogs, also develop respiratory dysfunction. The evaluation of this function seems essential duri[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Carlier PG ; Loureiro De Sousa P ; Azzabou N ; Wary C ; Carlier RY | 2011Muscle imaging, and in particular NMR imaging, will play an increasingly important role, together with dynamometry and actimetry, for the evaluation of therapeutic interventions in patients with neuro-muscular disorders. To fulfil this mission, [...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Hébert L ; Puymirat J ; Saulnier J ; Vial C ; Remec JF | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Introduction. Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is a multisystem disorder that demonstrates variable symptoms and rates of progression. Muscle weakness is considered one of the main problems with a clinical picture that is characterized by distal [...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Guevel L ; Talon S ; Perez Iratxeta C ; Dubreil L ; Lavoie J ; Feron M ; Brand M ; Megeney L ; Rouger K | 2011Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), the most common form of inherited neuromuscular disorder, is caused by null mutations in the dystrophin gene, leading to progressive and unrelenting muscle loss. Although the genetic basis of DMD is well resolv[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Borel P ; Guerchet N ; Tanniou G ; Bloch R ; Roche J ; Richard I ; Stockholm D | 2011Sarcolemmal disruptions in myofibers can represent a physiologic response to a particular mechanic stress like lengthening contractions. These membrane tears result in intracellular changes that play a crucial role in physiopathology of the dise[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Decorte N ; Cabrol L ; Drouet M ; Azzabou N ; Carlier PG | 2011Purpose. Abnormal skeletal muscle enhancement post Gd-contrast agent (Gd-CA) injection is a common feature on NMR images in inflammatory diseases but also inchronic interstitial fibrosis or in conditions where sarcolemma permeability is increase[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Hardeman E ; Lee A ; Joya J ; Gunning P | 2011We are developing a strategy for the selective engraftment of stem cells in a solid tissue. It is based on the forced expression in transplanted cells of a mutant form of methylguanine methyltransferase [MGMT(P140K)] which can confer resistance [...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Guiraud A ; Baas D ; Schaeffer L ; Goillot E | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Membrane remodelling is a fundamental process in skeletal muscle. It is involved in the generation and repair of myofibers, the formation and maintenance of neuromuscular junctions, and the development of T-tubules. The importance of membrane re[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Castel D ; Sambasivan R ; Tajbakhsh S | 2011Satellite cells play a major role in postnatal growth and regeneration of skeletal muscle. Thus, satellite cells exhibit several attributes of stem cells: quiescence, selfrenewal and regenerative potential. Since all skeletal muscle satellite ce[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Lacourpaille L ; Bouillard K ; Hug F ; Hogrel JY ; Nordez A | 2011Non-invasive measurements are required for monitoring neuromuscular disorders (NDM) and following the effects of rehabilitation/therapy programs. Since it provides localized elastic modulus (i.e. stiffness) measurements, elastographic methods co[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Vincent L ; Féasson L ; Messonnier L | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited blood disorder that leads to the production of abnormal haemoglobin (Hb), called HbS. In previous experiments, we have shown that sickle cell trait (SCT) carriers (heterozygous form of the disease, chara[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Vandenburgh H ; Shansky J ; Benesch-Lee F ; Skelly K ; Spinazzola J ; Green S ; Saponjian Y ; Butler Browne G ; Mouly V ; Tseng B | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Skeletal muscle weakness and fatigue disorders affect millions of individuals each year and few treatments are available. A high content physiological drug screening technology was developed using skeletal muscle myoblasts bioengineered into con[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Domi T ; Porrello E ; Velardo D ; Capotondo A ; Triolo D ; Ruegg MA ; Biffi A ; Comi G ; Quattrini A ; Previtali S | 2011CMD is characterized by progressive wasting muscular dystrophy and dysmyelinating neuropathy with variable involvement of the central nervous system, which may lead to severe disability in early childhood. Among this group, laminin 2deficient CM[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Buyse G ; Goemans N ; van den Hauwe M ; Thijs D ; Wei H ; Rummey C ; Meier T ; Mertens L | 2011Background: A 12-month double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled phase II study in 21 patients with DMD (DELPHI study) has indicated that idebenone (Catena®, 450 mg/d) may improve cardiac and respiratory function in 8-16 year old patients wit[...]Article
Reversal of myotonic dystrophy type 1 MIS-splicing events using truncated-muscle blind-like factor 1
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Tran H ; Lermercier C ; Dhaenens CM ; Fernandez-Gomez F ; Eddarkaoui S ; Begard S ; Obriot H ; Van Brussels E ; Caillierez R ; Buee L ; Charlet Berguerand N ; Schraen-Maschke S ; Déglon N ; Colin M ; Furling D ; Caillet-Boudin ML ; Sergeant N | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Myotonic dystrophy of type I (DM1), the most common form of adult muscular dystrophy, is an autosomal dominant multisystemic inherited disease. The mutation consists of an unstable CTG expansion in the 3'UTR of the DMPK gene, which confers to th[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Stockholm D ; Edom-Vovard F ; Coutant S ; Sanatine P ; Corre C ; Neildez-Nguyen TMA ; Paldi A | AFM-TELETHON | 2011The Neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM;CD56) is considered as a marker of myogenic cells committed to differentiation. It is commonly used for the enumeration of satellite cells and for the enrichment of myogenic cell population from muscle for[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Lefebvre S ; Renvoisé B ; Verrier ER ; Quérol G | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Infantile muscular atrophy (SMA) is a group of inherited neuromuscular disorders cause by mutations in the Survival Motor Neuron (SMN) gene. SMAs are characterized by the degeneration of the alpha-motorneurons and muscular atrophy. The ubiquitou[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Ben Yaou R ; Beugnet C ; Chikhaoui K ; Hamroun D ; Deburgrave N ; Kaplan JC ; Beroud C ; Bonne G ; Leturcq F | 2011In 1966, A. Emery and F. Dreifuss described a large family from Virginia, where affected males showed an unusual type of X-linked condition characterised by muscular dystrophy with early joint contractures and cardiac disease, thus starting the [...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Giagnacovo M ; Malatesta M ; Cardani R ; Pellicciari C ; Meola G | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Myotonic dystrophies (DMs) have highly variable clinical manifestations consisting in muscle weakness and atrophy, and a wide spectrum of extramuscular manifestations. In both DM1 and DM2 forms, expanded nucleotide sequences cause the accumulati[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Vassilopoulos S ; Gentil C ; Laine J ; Buclez PO ; Brodsky F ; Bonne G ; Voit T ; Garcia L ; Pietri Rouxel F ; Bitoun M | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Clathrin CHC17, the ubiquitous clathrin heavy chain encoded on human chromosome 17, is the main component of clathrin coated vesicles (CCV), well characterized for its role in vesicle formation during endocytosis of membrane receptors from the p[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Joanne P ; Ochala J ; Hourde C ; Hadj-Said W ; Mounier R ; Zibroba D ; Sakamoto K ; Agbulut O ; Butler Browne G ; Ferry A | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Dystrophin contributes to force transmission and has a protein-scaffolding role for a variety of proteins (e.g. mechanoreceptor, nNOS, DHPR&) and is thus emerged to play an important role as components of signaling pathways acting in skeletal mu[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Villemeur M ; Biondi O ; Temchenko A ; Marchand A ; Bourg N ; Richard I ; Authier FJ | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Dysferlin is a membrane-anchored protein implicated in plasma membrane repair process. In mammalians, dysferlin deficiency induces persistent sarcolemma disruptions leading to myofiber necrosis and chronic myopathy. Dysferlin myopathy is charact[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Falcone S ; Gache V ; Didier N ; Sassoon D ; Gomes E | 2011Centronuclear myopathies (CNMs) are congenital muscle disorders, described for the first time in 1966 by A. Spiro, characterized morphologically by small fibers with centrally-positioned nuclei. Although, at present, mutations in at least three [...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Jessica KM ; Relaix F | AFM-TELETHON | 2011During embryogenesis, the skeletal muscle is constituted by myogenic progenitor cells. But around birth, foetal muscle progenitor cells adopt a satellite cell position, becoming embedded within the basal lamina in close contact to the muscle fib[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Deltour L ; Tajbakhsh S ; Poirier F | 2011Galectins belong to a family of soluble proteins that can be found both extracellularly and intracellularly. In vivo, their localisation is highly regulated depending on physiological situations. Several studies has established that, in addition[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Ratti F ; Ramond F ; Gilquin B ; Zhang Y ; Khochbin S ; Matthias P ; Méjat A ; Schaeffer L | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Skeletal muscle atrophy is a widespread and debilitating disease that mainly results from the massive degradation of muscle proteins, together with an inhibition of regenerating activity. The main occurring event is the down-regulation of the ak[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Picard B ; Anne B ; Cassar-Malek I ; Chelh I ; Cottin P ; Gabillard JC ; Hadj Sassi A ; Leibovitch S ; Rodriguez J ; Seilliez I | AFM-TELETHON | 2011The control of muscle mass is determined by a dynamic balance of anabolic and catabolic processes. In the last decade, myostatin, a member of the TGFuperfamily, has emerged as a key factor in muscle growth regulation. The importance of myostatin[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Weiss J ; Bismuth J ; Eymard B ; Berrih-Aknin S ; Le Panse R | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Myasthenia Gravis (MG) with anti-acetylcholine receptor antibodies is commonly associated with thymic hyperplasia characterized by the presence of germinal centers containing B cells producing pathogenic antibodies.Our analysis of hyperplastic t[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Christodoulou-Vafeiadou E ; Favier M ; Navière A ; Maire P ; Guillet-Deniau I | 2011Intramyocellular lipid deposition contributes to muscle insulin resistance, particularly in obese, type 2 diabetic patients, or in patients with myotonic dystrophy. On the other hand, disruption of Wnt signaling caused transdifferentiation of my[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Boutonnet C ; Bello NF ; Lamsoul I ; Métais A ; Mouly V ; Lutz P ; Moog-Lutz C | 2011Our work is based on human primary myoblast cultures derived from single satellite cells. In human, as in other species, it is well established that myoblast differentiation is mainly controlled by two families of transcription factors, the Myog[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Grassi F ; Bigi R ; Deflorio C ; Fucile S | AFM-TELETHON | 2011In slow-channel congenital myasthenia (CM), excessive Ca2+ influx through mutant endplate acetylcholine receptor (AChR) channels leads to endplate degeneration and myasthenic symptoms. The high Ca2+ permeability of human AChR-channels, which is [...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Tajsharghi H | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Saba Abdul-Hussein, Homa Tajsharghi Department of Pathology, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Gothenburg, 413 45 Gothenburg, Sweden In vertebrates skeletal muscle is found throughout the body and forms during the entire life span. Adult s[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Castets P ; Bertrand A ; Beuvin M ; Ferry A ; Grand FL ; Castets M ; Chazot G ; Rederstorff M ; Krol A ; Lescure A ; Romero NB ; Guicheney P ; Allamand V | 2011In humans, selenoprotein N (SelN) deficiency, due to mutations in the SEPN1 gene, causes a group of inherited neuromuscular disorders termed SEPN1-Related Myopathies. These congenital diseases are characterized by an early onset generalized musc[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Huchet-Cadiou C ; Carré-Pierrat M ; Lafoux A ; Roux A ; Tanniou G ; Chambonnier L ; Ségalat L | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Screening of drugs in mdx miceCorinne Huchet-Cadiou2,Ma Carre-Pierrat1, Aude Lafoux2, Antoine Roux2, Guillaume Tanniou3, Lucie Chambonnier1 and Laurent Slat11 CGMC, CNRS-UMR 5534, Universitaude Bernard Lyon-1, 69622 Villeurbanne, France; 2 UMR I[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Picchio L ; Taghli O ; DaPonte JP ; Jagla C | 2011Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is a dominant neuromuscular disorder affecting 1/8000 individuals worldwide. This disease is caused by an unstable expansion of CTG trinucleotide repeats located in the 3' untranslated region of the dystrophy myot[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Coletti D ; Aulino P ; Mericskay M ; Li Z ; Adamo S | 2011In humans, selenoprotein N (SelN) deficiency, due to mutations in the SEPN1 gene, causes a group of inherited neuromuscular disorders termed SEPN1-RelatedMyopathies. These congenital diseases are characterized by an early onset generalized muscl[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Mamaeva D ; Mesirca P ; Torrente A ; Arsic N ; Nargeot J ; Mangoni M ; Lamb N ; Fernandez A | 2011Adult stem cells can be isolated from skeletal muscle and display spontanous multi-lineage differentiation including towards cardiac lineage. (Arsic et al. 2008)*. Before differentiation and in addition to Sca-1 and Bcrp1/ABCG2, skeletal Muscle-[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Stuelsatz P ; Shearer A ; Kirillova I ; Yablonka-Reuveni Z | 2011Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is a dominant neuromuscular disorder affecting 1/8000 individuals worldwide. This disease is caused by an unstable expansion of CTG trinucleotide repeats located in the 3' untranslated region of the dystrophy myot[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Latil M ; Rocheteau P ; Tajbakhsh S ; Chrétien F | 2011Stem cells are usually located in a niche more or less defined both micro-anatomically and molecularly that insures their maintenance, their quiescence state and the self-renewal. As an example, part of hematopoietic stem cells is found in a nic[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Carlier PG ; Thibaud JL | 2011Background. Except for fatty infiltration mapping, skeletal muscle T1-weighted (T1w) NMR imaging is reputed to be non-informative, in particular with regard to myocyte inflammation, oedema, necrosis or more broadly speaking cell damage. These pa[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Berkholz J ; Munz B ; Berger F ; Breustedt T | 2011Myofilament organization into the highly structured sarcomeres requires the accurate assembly, folding and interaction of newly synthesized sarcomeric proteins. This complex process, termed myofibrillogenesis, occurs during striated muscle devel[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Robin V ; Ittig D ; Voit T ; Leumann CJ ; Garcia L | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Spinal muscular atrophy is a recessive disease caused by mutations in the SMN1 gene, which encodes a protein (SMN) involved in RNA processing whose absence dramatically affects the survival of motor neurons. In Man, the severity of the disease i[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Soheili T ; Gicquel Zouida E ; Bartoli M ; Richard I | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Sarcoglycanopathies are recessive muscular disorders caused by defects in a group of transmembrane proteins, known as sarcoglycans, and part of the dystrophinassociated complex. Mutations in the alpha, beta, gamma and delta sarcoglycan genes lea[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Buendia B ; Attanda W ; Duband-Goulet I ; Vadrot N ; Cabet E ; Ostlund C ; Worman H ; Zinn-Justin S | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Prelamin A and mature lamin A are A-type lamins, nuclear intermediate filament proteins that play a role in organizing the chromatin structure and gene expression. Lamin A results from the proteolytic processing of prelamin A. It is shorter (646[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Willmann R | 2011Disease-specific animal models offer the possibility to test the efficacy of new therapeutic interventions for neuromuscular diseases. A large plethora of data on animal models is generated every year reporting important therapeutic effects base[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Darbellay B ; Konig K ; Arnaudeau S ; Bader C ; Bernheim L | 2011Cytosolic Ca2+ signals encoded by repetitive Ca2+ releases rely on two processes to refill Ca2+ stores: (i) Ca2+ re-uptake from the cytosol and (ii) activation of a Ca2+ influx via Store Operated Calcium Entry (SOCE). SOCE activation is, however[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Rucker-Martin C ; Gouadon E ; Lambert V ; Renaud JF | 2011Cell therapy appears as a new mean for the prevention or treatment of cardiac dysfunction. To analyse the relationship between cardiac progenitor cells and host cells: adult cardiac myocytes and fibroblasts, we developed an ex vivo model.Primate[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Schumperli D ; Nlend Nlend R ; Huo Q ; Neve A ; Cudré-Mauroux F ; Meyer K ; Heller M ; Voit T ; Saxena S | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is characterised by the degeneration of motor neurons in the spinal cord and results from a loss of function (usually a deletion) of the SMN1 (Survival Motor-Neuron 1) gene. The highly similar SMN2 gene partly compe[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Jain N ; Shah A | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Objective: 62 consecutive patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) seen between 2004 and 2007 were analyzed for epidemiological characteristics, clinical features, yield of diagnostic tests and outcome in relation to various therapeutic options used[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Hogrel JY ; Decostre V ; Canal A ; Ledoux I ; Sari S ; Bloch C ; Benveniste O | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Inclusion body myositis (IBM) is a late-onset inflammatory myopathy which is the most common occurring over the age of 50 years. New emerging treatments are being to be tested in a near future and the choice of robust and reliable outcome measur[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Brouilly N ; Pierson L ; Lecroisey C ; Schwab Y ; Labouesse M ; Gieseler K | 2011Muscle degeneration is a progressive process, which ultimately leads to muscle cell death. It can be induced by many different primary genetic defects. We use the genetic model organism Caenorhabditis elegans to investigate the process of muscle[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Repele A ; Rossi C ; Gastaldello A ; Al-Musawi S ; Stickland N ; Campanella M | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Cell therapy represents a valid tool for tissue replacement, in particular in the contest of muscle dystrophies or structural defects. According to recent studies, satellite cells (SCs) seem to be divided into two subpopulations: one of committe[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Zupan A | AFM-TELETHON | 2011INTRODUCTION Swimming and other kinds of water exercise are highly suitable forms of recreation for people with any type of physical disability. The physical properties of water facilitate movement and for some people water represents the only e[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Mével M ; Chatin B ; Beilvert F ; Pitard B | 2011Colipids lipids or helper-lipids, a class of lipids uncharged at physiological pH, were found to be essential components in the final formulation of liposomes used for gene transfection. Lots of cationic lipids developed have often been associat[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Gherardi RK ; Khan Z ; Authier FJ ; Tillement O | 2011Nanosized particles have various innovative medical applications in fields such as imaging contrast fluids, topic antimicrobials, surgery tools, drug and gene delivery and vaccine adjuvant (Alum). Biodistribution of particles injected into muscl[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Dorchies O ; Reutenauer-Patte J ; Petermann O ; Patthey-Vuadens O ; Gayi E ; Ruegg U | 2011To date, no cure exists for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a fatal muscle disorder. Recently, we evaluated tamoxifen (TAM), a selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM), used to treat certain breast cancers, on the mdx5Cv dystrophic mouse. We fo[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Jaimovich E ; Valladares D ; Casas M ; Jorquera G ; Fernandez R ; Altamirano F ; Figueroa R ; Buvinic S ; Juretic N | 2011Tetanic electrical stimulation of muscle cells elicit, in addition to contraction, a series of events characterized by ATP release through pannexin1 hemichannels, activation of purinergic P2Y receptors, IP3 production and slow calcium transients[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Dieterich K ; Fabre B ; Lallemand G ; Jouk PS ; Monnier N ; Lunardi J ; Marty I | 2011Arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (AMC) is caused by reduced fetal mouvements in utero. It describes congenital joint contractures present in more than one body area at birth. Neuromuscular types of AMC are basically linked to anterior horn cel[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Hogrel JY ; Ledoux I ; Behin A ; Stojkovic T ; Laforet P | AFM-TELETHON | 2011The Grip Test was created to develop a standardized non-ischemic forearm-exercise test for a safe screening of patients with exercise intolerance. In only one session, the maximum grip strength, the fatigue resistance and the muscle metabolism d[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Guiraud-Dogan C ; Hamroun D ; Beroud C ; Eymard B ; Bassez G | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Myotonic dystrophy (DM) is the commonest muscular dystrophy in adults and the most variable neuromuscular disorder. Such variability together with multisystemic involvement creates particular challenges for both clinical management and design of[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Messaoud-Khelifi M ; Khau Van Kien P ; Thorel D ; Méchin D ; Ishmukhametova A ; Vincent MC ; Claustres M ; Tuffery-Giraud S | 2011While it is admitted that 74%-95% of multiexon genes in human undergo alternative splicing, the occurrence of aberrant pseudoexon (PE) inclusion in mature transcripts in normal and pathological conditions is far from being known. PEs are introni[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Lachey J ; Wong V ; Seehra J | 2011Activin receptor type IIB (ActRIIB) is a signaling receptor for ligands involved in suppressing muscle growth. Blocking ActRIIB signaling increases muscle mass and function. RAP-031, a soluble fusion protein comprised of a form of ActRIIB extrac[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Sirvent P ; Ennequin G ; Gerbaix M ; Guillet C ; Masgrau A ; Courteix D ; Metz L | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Neuregulin was initially described as a neurotrophic factor involved in the formation of the neuromuscular junction in skeletal muscle. However, in recent years, neuregulin has been reported to be a myokine that exerts relevant effects on the re[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Nguyen K ; Walrafen P ; Bernard R ; Attarian S ; Chaix C ; Vovan C ; Renard E ; Pouget J ; Vannier A ; Bensimon A | AFM-TELETHON | 2011The genetic modifications associated with facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD), one of the most common hereditary muscular disorders are complex, including mainly the contraction of a D4Z4 repeat array at the 4q35 subtelomeric region together wi[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Leonardis L ; de Greef J ; Lemmers R | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is linked in more than 95% of cases to D4Z4 repeat contraction on chromosome 4q35 (FSHD1). In patients with a typical clinical presentation but without D4Z4 repeat deletions, loss of DNA methylation [...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Puymirat J ; Bouchard JP ; Mathieu J ; Cossette L ; Bassez G | 2011A DM registry is essential to both identify potential participants in clinical trials and to follow the natural history of the disease. Such a registry will serve as an indicator of the effectiveness of the health care provided to the DM populat[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Vallese D ; Negroni E ; Yada E ; Di Santo J ; Ferry A ; Vitiello L ; Mouly V ; Butler-Browne GS | 2011Cell therapy has been long explored as a potential approach for DMD, although the positive results obtained in animal models have been followed by discouraging evidences in clinical trials. This emphasized the importance of investigating the in [...]Article
The RNA-binding protein STAUFEN1 is increased in DM1 skeletal muscle and regulates PRE-MRNA splicing
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Ravel Chapuis A ; Bélanger G ; Yadava R ; Mahadevan M ; Desgroseillers L ; Coté J ; Jasmin B | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Myotonic Dystrophy (DM1) is caused by an expansion of CTG repeats in the 3' untranslated region (3'UTR) of DMPK mRNA. The expanded mRNA aggregates in the nucleus and becomes toxic to cells by sequestering and/or misregulating RNA-binding protein[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Rizzato V ; Fappi A ; Xavier G ; Godoy T ; Bonten E ; van de Vlekkert D ; Chadi G ; d'Azzo A ; Zanoteli E | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Lysosomal neuraminidase (NEU1) is the glycosidase responsible for the catabolism of sialic acid-containing glycoconjugates. A deficiency of this enzyme is associated with the lysosomal storage disease sialidosis. Children affected by this diseas[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Metzger D | 2011Skeletal muscles generate locomotor force and heat, and play an important metabolic role in mammals. They are composed of myofibers exhibiting distinct contractile and metabolic properties, and display a remarkable adaptation to functional and m[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Hébert L ; Puymirat J ; Saulnier J | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Introduction. In Myotonic Dystrophy type 1 (DM1), few consensuses have emerged with regard to muscle strength impairments, and level of function. Distal weakness first appears and is usually identified after 9 to 10 years' duration of the illnes[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Barthelemy F ; N.Wein ; Krahn M ; Courrier S ; Leturcq F ; Avril A ; Mouly V ; Garcia L ; Bartoli M | 2011Mutations in gene encoding dysferlin (DYSF, Chr. 2p13; 55 exons, mRNA 6,2kb) causes Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy type 2B and Miyoshi myopathy. Both diseases are autosomic recessive diseases with an age of onset at the early adulthood, associat[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Prevel N ; Allenbach Y ; Herson S ; Klatzmann D ; Benveniste O | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Introduction:Polymyositis (PM) and Inclusion body myositis (IBM) are inflammatory myopathies caraterized by invaded muscle fibers by autoreactive CD8+ T cells. Immunosupressive drugs used in PM are not always efficacious and have no effect on IB[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Le Panse R ; Cufi P ; Weiss J ; Dragin-Mamavi N ; Berrih-Aknin S | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Myasthenia Gravis (MG) is mainly due to autoantibodies against the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AChR) at the postsynaptic membrane that cause loss of functional AChR and disturb neuromuscular transmission. The thymus is clearly involved in [...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Hackman P ; Screen M ; Illa I ; Hankiewicz K ; Rojas R ; Richard I ; Vihola A ; Suominen T ; Penttila S ; Solders G ; Udd B | 2011The gene defects underlying the autosomal dominant late onset distal myopathy tibial muscular dystrophy (TMD, OMIM #600334 Udd myopathy) are in the titin (TTN) gene. TTN codes for the sarcomeric giant protein titin spanning one half sarcomere in[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Jonuschies J ; Boldrin L ; Muntoni F ; Morgan J | 2011Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is an X-linked genetic disorder characterized by an early onset and rapidly progressing muscle degeneration due to the absence of functional dystrophin protein. Damaged muscle fibres can be regenerated by their [...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Schepens I ; Poliakova K ; Borradori L | AFM-TELETHON | 2011The dystonin gene encodes several tissue selective BPAG1 protein isoforms, issued from alternative splicing. In skeletal muscle, the main isoform is BPAG1-b, a 830kDa protein that presents the hallmarks of both spectrin and plakin families. The [...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Beyer S ; Mlquerol L | 2011Left ventricular non-compaction (LVNC), frequently associated with neuromuscular disorders, can be considered a third form of congenital cardiomyopathy. This is a rare and severe form of cardiomyopathy, characterized by extensive ventricular tra[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Monjaret F ; Gallardo E ; Karine C ; Richard I | 2011Deficiency in Dysferlin cause two major phenotypes: Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy type 2B (LGMD2B) and Miyoshi Myopathy (MM). There is no treatment to date for these diseases. However, several therapeutic strategies by gene therapy have already[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Lorain S ; Peccate C ; Le Hir M ; Griffith G ; Voit T ; Garcia L | 2011Mutations in the dystrophin gene cause Duchenne muscular dystrophy, the most common severe childhood muscular pathology. With antisense sequences linked to a modified U7 small nuclear RNA, we achieved persistent exon skipping that removes the mu[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Philippi S ; Lorain S ; Zacharias U ; Marg A ; Bartoli M ; Krahn M ; Bigot B ; Mouly V ; Spuler S ; Garcia L | 2011Mutations in the gene encoding dysferlin cause Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy Type 2B (LGMD2B) and Miyoshi Myopathy (MM). While LGMD2B leads to muscle weakness and atrophy in proximal muscles of the limb girdle regions, MM mainly affects posteri[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Etienne M ; Hoogaars W ; Relizani K ; Hourde C ; Precigout G ; Ferry A ; Garcia L ; Ritvos O ; Hoen P ; Amthor H | 2011Myostatin and homologous molecules restrain growth of skeletal muscle by signalling via the transmembrane Activin-receptor-IIB (ActRIIB). Treatment with soluble ActRIIB-Fc fusion protein sequesters ActRIIB-ligands, which inhibits signal transduc[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Tupler R ; Sancisi V ; Germinario E ; Esposito A ; Morini E ; Peron S ; Moggio M ; Tomelleri G ; Danieli D | 2011Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy is an autosomal dominant neuromuscular disorder that is not due to a classical mutation within a protein-coding gene. Instead, almost all FSHD patients carry a reduced number of tandem 3.3-kilobase repeat u[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Fabrice A ; Konig S ; Bernheim L ; Frieden M | 2011The myogenesis process involves the expression of muscle-specific transcription factors such as myogenin and MEF2, and is essentially regulated by fluctuations of the cytosolic Ca2+ concentration. Previous work demonstrated that hyperpolarizatio[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Lotteau S ; Ducreux S ; Romestaing C ; Van Coppenolle F | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) is an important compartment of the skeletal muscle cells involved in calcium release and calcium re-uptake during fibers contraction and relaxation. SR calcium concentration is mainly due to a balance between calcium [...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Mezghrani A ; Julie S ; Metz A ; Huc-Brandt S ; Page K ; Dolphin A ; Lory P | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Soluble and membrane misfolded proteins are generally retained and degraded in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) by the proteasome system known as Endoplasmic Reticulum Associated Degradation (ERAD). A crucial step in ERAD is the protein recognitio[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Monestier O ; Brun C ; Heu K ; Malhouroux M ; Vuillier Devillers K ; Magnol L ; Blanquet V | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Gasp-1 (Growth and differentiation factor associated serum protein 1) contains multiple domains associated with protease-inhibitory proteins. Like its homologous protein Gasp-2, Gasp-1 is able to bind both Gdf8 and Gdf11, two secreted factors th[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Panaite PA ; Kielar M ; Gourdon G ; Kuntzer T ; Kraftsik R ; Barakat-Walter I | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Objective: Myotonic dystrophy (DM1, also known as Steinert disease) is characterized primarily by myotonia and muscle weakness and is a multisystemic disorder. Although several studies have been carried out to verify the possible involvement of [...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Buyse G ; Voit T ; Schara U ; Verschuuren J ; Bernert G ; Jeannet P ; Sejersen T ; Rubino R ; Meier T | 2011Respiratory complications cause early morbidity and mortality in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The use of glucocorticoids slows the decline in respiratory function, but their long-term use is hampered by significant side effec[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Hogrel JY ; Benali M ; Canal A ; Moraux A ; De Coninck N ; Desguerre I ; Quijano Roy S ; Estournet B ; Mayer M ; Thémar-Noël C ; Voit T ; Servais L | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Disease progression in children with neuromuscular disorder is frequently assessed by the 6-min walk test, which classically constitutes the clinical primary outcome in the present therapeutic trials. However, assessing the muscle function in no[...]Article
Validation of a new ankle dynamometer for ankle dorsiflexion and plantar flexion torque measurements
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Moraux A ; Canal A ; Ollivier G ; Ledoux I ; Doppler V ; Payan C ; Roques S ; Behin A ; Hogrel JY | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Ankle strength is one of the functions primarily affected in several neuromuscular disorders such as Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease or Myotonic Dystrophy type 1. In order to accurately follow the evolution of the disease and quantify effects of new[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Argov Z ; Sela I ; Yakovlev L ; Mitrani-Rosenbaum S | 2011Mutations in GNE cause Hereditary Inclusion Body Myopathy (HIBM), an adult onset, slowly progressive distal and proximal myopathy. GNE is well known as the key enzyme for the biosynthesis of sialic acid, but the exact mechanism of the disease is[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Zamba-Papanicolaou E ; Nicolaou P ; Kleopa K ; Middleton L ; Christodoulou K ; Kyriakides T | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease is one of the most common inherited neuromuscular disorders, with a prevalence of 17-40 per 100,000 individuals. CMT is classified into two main subgroups, demyelinating (HMSN I or CMT1) and axonal (HMSN II or C[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Blondelle J ; Maurer M ; Walmsley G ; Piercy R ; Blot S ; Tiret L ; Pilot-Storck F | 2011An autosomal form of centronuclear myopathy (CNM) spontaneously segregates in Labrador retrievers and constitutes a large animal model suitable for comparative functional analyses. In young affected dogs, muscle fibers exhibit size heterogeneity[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Carlier RY ; Laforet P ; Wary C ; Mompoint D ; Pellegrini N ; Annane D ; Carlier PG ; Orlikowski D | 2011Purpose. To describe muscle involvement on whole-body MRI scans in adult patients at different stages of late-onset Pompe disease.Materials and methods. Twenty patients aged 37 to 75 were examined. Five were bedridden and required ventilatory su[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Jarraya M ; Quijano Roy S ; Behin A ; Avila-Smirnow D ; Monnier N ; Romero NB ; Barois A ; Estournet B ; Carlier PG ; Carlier RY | 2011Mutations of TPM2, a gene coding for tropomyosin 2, have been identified in patients with nemalin myopathy or CAPs disease. Using whole-body (WB) MRI, we determined the patterns of muscle involvement in patients with TPM2 mutations. Materials an[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Fakhfakh F ; Mkaouar-Rebai E ; Chamkha I ; Kammoun F ; Kammoun N ; Hsairi I ; Triki C | 2011Mitochondrial diseases are a wide group of disorders characterized by genetic or biochemical abnormalities of the oxidative phosphorylation. They may depend on mitochondrial DNA as well as on nuclear genome defects. Mitochondrial DNA related dis[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Bernabe Gelot A | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Type IV Glycogen storage disease is a rare hereditary metabolic disorder, which is due to the absence of the glycogen branching enzyme amylo-1,4-1,6 transglucosidase, critical in the production of glycogen. This leads to very long unbranched glu[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Bernardi H ; Gay S ; Y.Fedon ; B.Vernus ; Bonnieu A ; Bacou F | 2011Expression of Wnt proteins is known to be important for developmental processes such as embryonic pattern formation and determination of cell fate. Previous studies have shown that Wn4 was involved in the myogenic fate of somites, in the myogeni[...]Article
4th International Congress of Myology, 4ème colloque international de Myologie (9-13 mai 2011; Lille (France)) ; Strochlic L ; Falk J ; Goillot E ; Sigoillot S ; Bourgeois F ; Delers P ; Swain A ; Castellani V ; Schaeffer L ; Legay C | AFM-TELETHON | 2011Neuromuscular junction (NMJ) formation requires a highly coordinated communication via several reciprocal signaling processes between motoneurons and muscle targets. Identification of the local and early cues in target recognition at the NMJ is [...]