{"id":754,"date":"2017-02-25T21:45:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T21:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/?page_id=754"},"modified":"2024-02-27T10:03:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T15:03:04","slug":"whats-new-in-progeria-research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/fr\/whats-new-in-progeria-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Quoi de neuf dans la recherche sur la prog\u00e9ria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=\u201d1\u2033 fullwidth=\u201don\u201d disabled_on=\u201doff|off|off\u201d _builder_version=\u201d4.16\u2033 border_width_bottom=\u201d55px\u201d border_color_bottom=\u201d#29327a\u201d global_colors_info=\u201d{}\u201d][et_pb_fullwidth_header _builder_version=\u201d4.16\u2033 title_font_size=\u201d55\u2033 background_color=\u201d#29327a\u201d background_image=\u201dhttps:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/About-Header.jpg\u201d background_position=\u201dcenter_left\u201d custom_padding=\u201d9vw||9vw||true\u201d custom_padding_tablet=\u201d\u201d custom_padding_phone=\u201d|56px||\u201d custom_padding_last_edited=\u201dsur|bureau\u201d title_font_size_tablet=\u201d45px\u201d title_font_size_phone=\u201d40px\u201d title_font_size_last_edited=\u201dsur|t\u00e9l\u00e9phone\u201d z_index_tablet=\u201d500\u2033 custom_css_main_element=\u201dbackground-position: center 18% !important;\u201d global_colors_info=\u201d{}\u201d]<\/p>\n<h1>Quoi de neuf dans<\/h1>\n<h1>Recherche sur la prog\u00e9ria<\/h1>\n<p>[\/et_pb_fullwidth_header][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=\u201d1\u2033 use_custom_gutter=\u201don\u201d gutter_width=\u201d1\u2033 specialty=\u201don\u201d padding_left_1=\u201d35px\u201d padding_left_2=\u201d35px\u201d padding_2_tablet=\u201d|||0px\u201d padding_2_phone=\u201d|||0px\u201d padding_2_last_edited=\u201don|desktop\u201d module_class_1=\u201dsidebar-secondary-nav\u201d module_class=\u201dempreinte-de-la-main-bg\u201d _builder_version=\u201d4.16\u2033 background_image=\u201dhttps:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/empreinte-de-la-main-bleue-uniquement.png\u201d parallax=\u201don\u201d parallax_method=\u201doff\u201d inner_width=\u201d100%\u201d inner_max_width=\u201d100%\u201d custom_padding=\u201d0|0px|54px|0px|false|false\u201d z_index_tablet=\u201d500\u2033 border_width_top=\u201d10px\u201d border_color_top=\u201d#8fd2ed\u201d use_custom_width=\u201don\u201d width_unit=\u201doff\u201d custom_width_percent=\u201d100%\u201d global_colors_info=\u201d{}\u201d][et_pb_column type=\u201d1_4\u2033 _builder_version=\u201d4.16\u2033 custom_padding=\u201d|||\u201d global_colors_info=\u201d{}\u201d custom_padding__hover=\u201d|||\u201d][et_pb_sidebar area=\u201det_pb_widget_area_18\u2033 disabled_on=\u201don|on|off\u201d module_class=\u201dsubpage-sidebars\u201d _builder_version=\u201d4.16\u2033 animation_style=\u201dfade\u201d z_index_tablet=\u201d500\u2033 border_width_right=\u201d5px\u201d global_colors_info=\u201d{}\u201d]<br \/>\n[\/et_pb_sidebar][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\u201d3_4\u2033 specialty_columns=\u201d3\u2033 _builder_version=\u201d4.16\u2033 custom_padding=\u201d|||\u201d global_colors_info=\u201d{}\u201d custom_padding__hover=\u201d|||\u201d][et_pb_row_inner custom_padding_last_edited=\u201don|phone\u201d _builder_version=\u201d4.16\u2033 custom_padding=\u201d39.4375px|35px|35px||false|false\u201d custom_padding_tablet=\u201d|35px||35px||true\u201d custom_padding_phone=\u201d\u201d animation_direction=\u201dhaut\u201d global_colors_info=\u201d{}\u201d][et_pb_column_inner saved_specialty_column_type=\u201d3_4\u2033 _builder_version=\u201d4.16\u2033 custom_padding=\u201d|||\u201d global_colors_info=\u201d{}\u201d custom_padding__hover=\u201d|||\u201d][et_pb_text _builder_version=\u201d4.16\u2033 background_size=\u201dinitial\u201d background_position=\u201dtop_left\u201d background_repeat=\u201dr\u00e9p\u00e9ter\u201d z_index_tablet=\u201d500\u2033 global_colors_info=\u201d{}\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>Nous avons ajout\u00e9 cette section afin que vous puissiez acc\u00e9der facilement aux informations sur les publications scientifiques les plus r\u00e9centes et les plus importantes sur la recherche sur la prog\u00e9ria.<\/p>\n<p>En plus des articles mis en \u00e9vidence ci-dessous, il existe d\u00e9sormais des centaines d&#039;articles sur la prog\u00e9ria et les sujets li\u00e9s \u00e0 la prog\u00e9ria. Nous vous sugg\u00e9rons de rechercher dans PubMed le(s) sujet(s) sp\u00e9cifique(s) que vous recherchez.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_row_inner custom_padding_last_edited=\u201dsur|t\u00e9l\u00e9phone\u201d _builder_version=\u201d4.16\u2033 custom_padding=\u201d0px|35px|35px||false|false\u201d custom_padding_tablet=\u201d|35px||35px||true\u201d custom_padding_phone=\u201d\u201d animation_direction=\u201dhaut\u201d global_colors_info=\u201d{}\u201d][et_pb_column_inner saved_specialty_column_type=\u201d3_4\u2033 _builder_version=\u201d4.16\u2033 custom_padding=\u201d|||\u201d global_colors_info= \u00bb{} \u00bb custom_padding__hover= \u00bb||| \u00bb][et_pb_toggle title= \u00bbMars 2023 : Des \u00e9tapes passionnantes dans la recherche sur l\u2019\u00e9valuation des traitements et la prolongation de la vie ! \u00bb open_toggle_background_color= \u00bb#f7f7f7\u2033 closed_toggle_text_color= \u00bb#ffffff \u00bb closed_toggle_background_color= \u00bb#00b2e2\u2033 icon_color= \u00bb#ffc15e \u00bb open_icon_color= \u00bb#ffc15e \u00bb admin_label= \u00bbMars 2023 : Des \u00e9tapes passionnantes dans la recherche sur l\u2019\u00e9valuation des traitements et la prolongation de la vie ! \u00bb _builder_version=\u201d4.24.0\u2033 title_text_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 background_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d custom_margin=\u201d10px||10px||true\u201d custom_padding=\u201d|50px||50px||true\u201d animation_style=\u201ddiapositive\u201d animation_direction=\u201dhaut\u201d animation_intensity_slide=\u201d25%\u201d link_option_url_new_window=\u201don\u201d hover_enabled=\u201d0\u2033 z_index_tablet=\u201d500\u2033 border_width_all=\u201d0px\u201d global_colors_info=\u201d{}\u201d sticky_enabled=\u201d0\u2033]<\/p>\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nous sommes ravis de partager avec vous deux mises \u00e0 jour de recherche passionnantes, publi\u00e9es en ligne aujourd&#039;hui dans la plus grande revue cardiovasculaire au monde, <em>Diffusion (1):<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Biomarqueur dans la prog\u00e9ria<br \/><\/strong>Une nouvelle m\u00e9thode de mesure de la prog\u00e9rine, la prot\u00e9ine toxique responsable de la prog\u00e9ria, a \u00e9t\u00e9 mise au point par une \u00e9quipe dirig\u00e9e par le Dr Leslie Gordon, cofondateur et directeur m\u00e9dical de la PRF. Gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 la d\u00e9couverte de ce biomarqueur, qui utilise le plasma sanguin pour mesurer les niveaux de prog\u00e9rine, <strong>les chercheurs peuvent comprendre comment les traitements affectent les participants aux essais cliniques apr\u00e8s une p\u00e9riode de temps plus courte<\/strong>\u00a0et \u00e0 plusieurs moments de chaque essai clinique.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ce test peut optimiser le processus d\u2019essai clinique en\u00a0<strong>fournir des informations pr\u00e9coces sur l&#039;efficacit\u00e9 des traitements test\u00e9s<\/strong>, en guise d&#039;introduction \u00e0 d&#039;autres tests cliniques tels que la prise de poids, les changements dermatologiques, la contracture et la fonction articulaires, etc., qui n\u00e9cessitent tous beaucoup plus de temps pour se manifester. Ces caract\u00e9ristiques cliniques de la prog\u00e9ria sont des mesures importantes \u00e0 long terme des effets du traitement qui sont d\u00e9sormais compl\u00e9t\u00e9es par les niveaux de prog\u00e9rine mesur\u00e9s plus t\u00f4t dans le traitement. Nous pouvons d\u00e9sormais \u00eatre en mesure de comprendre les b\u00e9n\u00e9fices du traitement d\u00e8s quatre mois apr\u00e8s le d\u00e9but du traitement, ou d&#039;arr\u00eater un traitement qui pourrait ne pas b\u00e9n\u00e9ficier au participant \u00e0 l&#039;essai, afin d&#039;\u00e9viter des effets secondaires inutiles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Une vie encore plus longue gr\u00e2ce au lonafarnib<br \/><\/strong>En plus d&#039;acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer les futures d\u00e9couvertes de traitements et de rem\u00e8des, cette nouvelle m\u00e9thode innovante de mesure de la prog\u00e9rine indique que la <strong>Les b\u00e9n\u00e9fices \u00e0 long terme du lonafarnib pour les enfants atteints de prog\u00e9ria sont sup\u00e9rieurs \u00e0 ceux pr\u00e9c\u00e9demment d\u00e9termin\u00e9s<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Les donn\u00e9es de l&#039;\u00e9tude indiquent que des taux de prog\u00e9rine plus faibles dans le sang refl\u00e8tent un avantage en termes de survie : plus une personne atteinte de prog\u00e9ria reste longtemps sous lonafarnib, plus le b\u00e9n\u00e9fice de survie du traitement est important. Les taux de prog\u00e9rine ont diminu\u00e9 d&#039;environ 30 \u00e0 60% pendant toute la dur\u00e9e du traitement, et l&#039;esp\u00e9rance de vie des patients sous traitement pendant plus de 10 ans a \u00e9t\u00e9 estim\u00e9e augmenter de pr\u00e8s de 5 ans. <strong>plus d&#039;une augmentation de 35% de la dur\u00e9e de vie moyenne, de 14,5 ans \u00e0 pr\u00e8s de 20 ans<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Progerin-Plasma-Biomarker-press-release-FINAL.pdf\" data-outlook-id=\"bbe0e1f1-6496-4aff-99c3-2551e9923410\"><strong>Pour en savoir plus, consultez notre communiqu\u00e9 de presse ici<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00ab L\u2019une des histoires les plus remarquables jamais partag\u00e9es dans ce podcast \u00bb<br \/><\/strong>\u2013 Dr Carolyn Lam, cardiologue de renomm\u00e9e mondiale et animatrice du podcast\u00a0<em>La circulation en marche,\u00a0<\/em>sur le voyage qui a conduit \u00e0 ces d\u00e9couvertes passionnantes<em>.\u00a0<\/em><strong>\u00c9coutez l&#039;interview compl\u00e8te<\/strong>\u00a0sur l&#039;impact profond de cette \u00e9tude directement du Dr Gordon. \u00c9couter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001cLXauJ5R6hFjgU6UNVj8z1ubk-cU5xChRkxoAUyz5uADnaWoiVSXmGDO6nDbCFI6BusWzoswFG0iru8PXvTinayQ2nuBWZkmbHn8pNOQ-qsUB1VpMUndro-VBH-aWDvJUzVgfNvTim0xjz6cUlYUsEKvW6Ac2WVwzATNn1BxwmDhQLC1rKekmK7seL8r8YfP&amp;c=WFQd6JESprJMCu4rKF2oA9DZh92aflFfVggkN5fMTdEL4z9YqYGm8g==&amp;ch=BuG-LaRM92CDJVKzSsfwhIYuKm0CXdEFhP1J1G8vN4oKaWQGcoaRLw==\" data-outlook-id=\"47426cae-5b9a-4ee8-a162-57056ba0138b\"><strong>ici<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001cLXauJ5R6hFjgU6UNVj8z1ubk-cU5xChRkxoAUyz5uADnaWoiVSXmGDO6nDbCFI6BusWzoswFG0iru8PXvTinayQ2nuBWZkmbHn8pNOQ-qsUB1VpMUndro-VBH-aWDvJUzVgfNvTim0xjz6cUlYUsEKvW6Ac2WVwzATNn1BxwmDhQLC1rKekmK7seL8r8YfP&amp;c=WFQd6JESprJMCu4rKF2oA9DZh92aflFfVggkN5fMTdEL4z9YqYGm8g==&amp;ch=BuG-LaRM92CDJVKzSsfwhIYuKm0CXdEFhP1J1G8vN4oKaWQGcoaRLw==\" data-outlook-id=\"8f269c62-a385-4eab-9cd0-6d776ff99f80\">(<\/a>(\u00e0 partir de 6:41).<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/circulation.libsyn.com\/circulation-june-6-2023-issue\" data-outlook-id=\"400960e7-6963-4c50-a46e-c9e2a9c61646\"><strong>\u00c9coutez le Dr Leslie Gordon sur le podcast Circulation on the Run<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Et en juin, deux articles \u00e9ditoriaux\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/fr\/progerinbiomarker\/#2\" data-outlook-id=\"1759c28a-86a6-44d1-8036-451892296ac0\">(2)\u00a0<\/a>et\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/fr\/progerinbiomarker\/#3\" data-outlook-id=\"254e3326-7fd7-403c-845f-7b9d02d6ef2b\">(3)<\/a>\u00a0ont \u00e9t\u00e9 publi\u00e9s dans\u00a0<em>Circulation\u00a0<\/em>soulignant l\u2019importance cruciale de ce biomarqueur pour faire progresser les traitements et la gu\u00e9rison des enfants atteints de prog\u00e9ria et pour une meilleure compr\u00e9hension du vieillissement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Circulation-logo.jpg\" width=\"339\" height=\"83\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16634 alignnone size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Circulation-logo.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Circulation-logo-300x74.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1) Gordon, LB, Norris, W., Hamren, S.,\u00a0<em>et al<\/em>. Prog\u00e9rine plasmatique chez les patients atteints du syndrome de Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria : d\u00e9veloppement d&#039;immuno-essais et \u00e9valuation clinique.\u00a0<em>Circulation<\/em>, 2023<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/37276254\/\" data-outlook-id=\"5814d3c7-03fd-457d-8be0-e4ab78d8973d\">Progression des anomalies cardiaques dans le syndrome de Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria : une \u00e9tude longitudinale prospective.<\/a><br \/>Olsen FJ, Gordon LB, Smoot L, Kleinman ME, Gerhard-Herman M, Hegde SM, Mukundan S, Mahoney T, Massaro J, Ha S, Prakash A. <em>Circulation<\/em>. 6 juin 2023\u00a0;147(23):1782-1784. doi\u00a0: 10.1161\/CIRCULATIONAHA.123.064370. Publication en ligne le 5 juin 2023.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(3)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/37276251\/\" data-outlook-id=\"ade09178-5ba3-44f0-b0c7-dd67fe6db635\">Outils facilement disponibles pour d\u00e9tecter la prog\u00e9rine et la progression des maladies cardiaques dans le syndrome de Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria.<\/a><br \/>Eriksson M, Haugaa K, Rev\u00eachon G. <em>Circulation<\/em>. 6 juin 2023\u00a0;147(23):1745-1747. doi\u00a0: 10.1161\/CIRCULATIONAHA.123.064765. Publication en ligne le 5 juin 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=\u201dMars 2021 : Des avanc\u00e9es passionnantes dans le domaine des th\u00e9rapies \u00e0 ARN pour la prog\u00e9ria !\u201d open_toggle_background_color=\u201d#f7f7f7\u2033 closed_toggle_text_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d closed_toggle_background_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d open_icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d admin_label=\u201dMars 2021 : Des avanc\u00e9es passionnantes dans le domaine des th\u00e9rapies \u00e0 ARN pour la prog\u00e9ria !\u201d _builder_version=\u201d4.16\u2033 title_text_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 background_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d custom_margin=\u201d10px||10px||true\u201d custom_padding=\u201d|50px||50px||true\u201d animation_style=\u201ddiapositive\u201d animation_direction=\u201dhaut\u201d animation_intensity_slide=\u201d25%\u201d link_option_url_new_window=\u201don\u201d hover_enabled=\u201d0\u2033 z_index_tablet=\u201d500\u2033 border_width_all=\u201d0px\u201d global_colors_info=\u201d{}\u201d sticky_enabled=\u201d0\u2033]<\/p>\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nous sommes ravis de partager les r\u00e9sultats de<strong>\u00a0deux \u00e9tudes r\u00e9volutionnaires tr\u00e8s int\u00e9ressantes sur l&#039;utilisation des th\u00e9rapies \u00e0 base d&#039;ARN<\/strong>\u00a0dans la recherche sur la prog\u00e9ria. Les deux \u00e9tudes ont \u00e9t\u00e9 cofinanc\u00e9es par la Progeria Research Foundation (PRF) et co\u00e9crites par le directeur m\u00e9dical de la PRF, le Dr Leslie Gordon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La prog\u00e9rine est la prot\u00e9ine responsable de la maladie de la prog\u00e9ria. Les th\u00e9rapies \u00e0 base d&#039;ARN interf\u00e8rent avec la capacit\u00e9 du corps \u00e0 produire de la prog\u00e9rine, en bloquant sa production au niveau de l&#039;ARN. Cela signifie que<strong>\u00a0le traitement est plus sp\u00e9cifique que la plupart des th\u00e9rapies<\/strong>\u00a0qui ciblent la prog\u00e9rine au niveau prot\u00e9ique.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bien que chaque \u00e9tude ait utilis\u00e9 un syst\u00e8me d&#039;administration de m\u00e9dicament diff\u00e9rent, les deux \u00e9tudes visaient la m\u00eame strat\u00e9gie de traitement de base, \u00e0 savoir inhiber la production d&#039;ARN codant pour la prot\u00e9ine anormale, la prog\u00e9rine. Les deux \u00e9tudes ont \u00e9t\u00e9 men\u00e9es par des chercheurs des National Institutes of Health (NIH) et ont \u00e9t\u00e9 publi\u00e9es aujourd&#039;hui dans la revue\u00a0<em>M\u00e9decine naturelle<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41591-021-01274-0\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41591-021-01274-0&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1628196375938000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEARXWPZSkgwOB4LEBbCyPF4jnuhg\">Une \u00e9tude<\/a>, dirig\u00e9 par Francis Collins, MD, PhD, directeur du NIH, a montr\u00e9 que le traitement des souris atteintes de Progeria avec un m\u00e9dicament appel\u00e9 SRP2001 r<strong>a r\u00e9duit l&#039;expression nocive de l&#039;ARNm et de la prot\u00e9ine prog\u00e9rine dans l&#039;aorte<\/strong>, l&#039;art\u00e8re principale du corps, ainsi que dans d&#039;autres tissus. \u00c0 la fin de l&#039;\u00e9tude, la paroi aortique est rest\u00e9e plus solide et les souris ont d\u00e9montr\u00e9 une\u00a0<strong>augmentation de la survie de plus de 60%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00ab Le fait qu\u2019une th\u00e9rapie cibl\u00e9e \u00e0 base d\u2019ARN montre des r\u00e9sultats aussi significatifs dans un mod\u00e8le animal me donne l\u2019espoir que cela pourrait conduire \u00e0 une avanc\u00e9e majeure dans le traitement de la prog\u00e9ria \u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 Collins.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Le\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41591-021-01262-4\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41591-021-01262-4&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1628196375938000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGXxoK9WpITSpYyGqBDeUnLFF6Q9g\">autre \u00e9tude<\/a>, dirig\u00e9 par Tom Misteli, PhD, directeur du Centre de recherche sur le cancer, National Cancer Institute, NIH, a montr\u00e9 une\u00a0<strong>90 \u2013 95% r\u00e9duction de l&#039;ARN toxique producteur de prog\u00e9rine<\/strong>\u00a0dans diff\u00e9rents tissus apr\u00e8s traitement avec un m\u00e9dicament appel\u00e9 LB143. Le laboratoire de Misteli a d\u00e9couvert que la r\u00e9duction de la prot\u00e9ine prog\u00e9rine \u00e9tait plus efficace dans le foie, avec des am\u00e9liorations suppl\u00e9mentaires dans le c\u0153ur et l&#039;aorte.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nous savons maintenant qu&#039;il existe plusieurs fa\u00e7ons de r\u00e9duire la production de la prot\u00e9ine prog\u00e9rine nocive \u00e0 l&#039;aide de th\u00e9rapies \u00e0 base d&#039;ARN. Chaque \u00e9tude a trouv\u00e9 diff\u00e9rentes s\u00e9quences d&#039;ARN dans les mod\u00e8les de souris qui, lorsqu&#039;elles \u00e9taient cibl\u00e9es, offraient une voie efficace pour le traitement, ce qui a permis d&#039;obtenir\u00a0<strong>Souris atteintes de Progeria qui ont v\u00e9cu beaucoup plus longtemps que celles trait\u00e9es dans des \u00e9tudes pr\u00e9c\u00e9dentes avec Zokinvy (lonafarnib)<\/strong>, le seul m\u00e9dicament approuv\u00e9 par la FDA pour les enfants atteints de prog\u00e9ria. De plus, les chercheurs ont d\u00e9couvert qu&#039;un traitement combin\u00e9 avec des th\u00e9rapies \u00e0 base d&#039;ARN et Zokinvy (lonafarnib) r\u00e9duisait les niveaux de prot\u00e9ines prog\u00e9rines dans le foie et le c\u0153ur plus efficacement que chaque traitement pris seul.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00ab Ces deux \u00e9tudes tr\u00e8s importantes d\u00e9montrent la\u00a0<strong>des avanc\u00e9es majeures qui sont d\u00e9sormais \u00e0 nos portes<\/strong>\u00a0\u00ab Nous sommes ravis de travailler avec ces brillants groupes de recherche pour faire progresser la th\u00e9rapie \u00e0 ARN pour les enfants atteints de prog\u00e9ria \u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 le Dr Leslie Gordon, directrice m\u00e9dicale du PRF. \u00ab Il s\u2019agit de deux \u00e9tudes de d\u00e9monstration de principe passionnantes, et\u00a0<strong>PRF est ravi de progresser vers les essais cliniques<\/strong>\u00a0qui appliquent ces strat\u00e9gies de traitement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Erdos, MR, Cabral, WA, Tavarez, UL\u00a0<em>et al.<\/em>\u00a0Une approche th\u00e9rapeutique antisens cibl\u00e9e pour le syndrome de prog\u00e9ria de Hutchinson-Gilford.\u00a0<em>M\u00e9decine Nat<\/em>\u00a0(2021).<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41591-021-01274-0\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41591-021-01274-0&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1628196375938000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGEHbVxfXN_m1h-zgUxvDCQUp1cvw\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41591-021-01274-0<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Puttaraju, M., Jackson, M., Klein, S.\u00a0<em>et al.<\/em>\u00a0Le d\u00e9pistage syst\u00e9matique identifie les oligonucl\u00e9otides antisens th\u00e9rapeutiques pour le syndrome de prog\u00e9ria de Hutchinson-Gilford.\u00a0<em>M\u00e9decine Nat<\/em>\u00a0(2021).<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41591-021-01262-4\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41591-021-01262-4&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1628196375938000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEPvAtsPSrI8M4xFxeLG-BEJL51Iw\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41591-021-01262-4<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=\u201dJanvier 2021 : Progr\u00e8s remarquables en mati\u00e8re d\u2019\u00e9dition g\u00e9n\u00e9tique dans les mod\u00e8les de souris atteintes de Progeria\u201d open_toggle_background_color=\u201d#f7f7f7\u2033 closed_toggle_text_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d closed_toggle_background_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d open_icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d admin_label=\u201dJanvier 2021 : Progr\u00e8s remarquables en mati\u00e8re d\u2019\u00e9dition g\u00e9n\u00e9tique dans les mod\u00e8les de souris atteintes de Progeria\u201d _builder_version=\u201d4.24.0\u2033 title_text_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 background_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d custom_margin=\u201d10px||10px||true\u201d custom_padding=\u201d|50px||50px||true\u201d animation_style=\u201ddiapositive\u201d animation_direction=\u201dhaut\u201d animation_intensity_slide=\u201d25%\u201d link_option_url_new_window=\u201don\u201d z_index_tablet=\u201d500\u2033 border_width_all=\u201d0px\u201d global_colors_info=\u201d{}\u201d]<\/p>\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La revue scientifique\u00a0<em>Nature<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-020-03086-7\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-020-03086-7&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1614374051502000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEYq0fVGOfrx6B9FN6pdGIbdkRVFA\">r\u00e9sultats r\u00e9volutionnaires publi\u00e9s<\/a>\u00a0d\u00e9montrant que l\u2019\u00e9dition g\u00e9n\u00e9tique dans un mod\u00e8le murin de Progeria corrigeait la mutation qui cause la Progeria dans de nombreuses cellules, am\u00e9liorait plusieurs sympt\u00f4mes cl\u00e9s de la maladie et augmentait consid\u00e9rablement la dur\u00e9e de vie des souris.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cofinanc\u00e9e par la PRF et co\u00e9crite par le Dr Leslie Gordon, directrice m\u00e9dicale de la PRF, l&#039;\u00e9tude a r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 qu&#039;avec une seule injection d&#039;un \u00e9diteur de base programm\u00e9 pour corriger la mutation \u00e0 l&#039;origine de la maladie, les souris ont surv\u00e9cu 2,5 fois plus longtemps que les souris Progeria t\u00e9moins non trait\u00e9es, jusqu&#039;\u00e0 un \u00e2ge correspondant au d\u00e9but de la vieillesse chez les souris en bonne sant\u00e9. Fait important, les souris trait\u00e9es ont \u00e9galement conserv\u00e9 un tissu vasculaire sain, une d\u00e9couverte significative, car la perte d&#039;int\u00e9grit\u00e9 vasculaire est un pr\u00e9dicteur de mortalit\u00e9 chez les enfants atteints de Progeria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">L&#039;\u00e9tude a \u00e9t\u00e9 codirig\u00e9e par l&#039;expert mondial en \u00e9dition g\u00e9n\u00e9tique, David Liu, PhD, du Broad Institute, MIT, Jonathan Brown, professeur adjoint de m\u00e9decine \u00e0 la division de m\u00e9decine cardiovasculaire de l&#039;universit\u00e9 Vanderbilt, et Francis Collins, MD, PhD, directeur des National Institutes of Health.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00ab Observer cette r\u00e9ponse spectaculaire dans notre mod\u00e8le de souris Progeria est l\u2019un des d\u00e9veloppements th\u00e9rapeutiques les plus passionnants auxquels j\u2019ai particip\u00e9 en 40 ans en tant que m\u00e9decin-chercheur \u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 le Dr Collins.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00ab Il y a cinq ans, nous \u00e9tions encore en train de terminer le d\u00e9veloppement du tout premier \u00e9diteur de base \u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 le Dr Liu. \u00ab Si vous m&#039;aviez dit \u00e0 l&#039;\u00e9poque qu&#039;en cinq ans, une seule dose d&#039;un \u00e9diteur de base pourrait traiter la prog\u00e9ria chez un animal au niveau de l&#039;ADN, de l&#039;ARN, des prot\u00e9ines, de la pathologie vasculaire et de la dur\u00e9e de vie, j&#039;aurais r\u00e9pondu &quot;c&#039;est impossible&quot;. C&#039;est un v\u00e9ritable t\u00e9moignage du d\u00e9vouement de l&#039;\u00e9quipe qui a rendu ce travail possible. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Des \u00e9tudes pr\u00e9cliniques suppl\u00e9mentaires sont n\u00e9cessaires pour \u00e9tudier ces r\u00e9sultats, qui, nous l&#039;esp\u00e9rons, donneront un jour lieu \u00e0 un essai clinique. Pour en savoir plus sur cette nouvelle passionnante, lisez ce\u00a0<em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/crispr-gene-editing-treatment-could-point-way-to-fix-for-deadly-aging-disease-11609950054\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=\u201dNovembre 2020 : Approbation de la FDA pour le lonafarnib (Zokinvy)\u201d open_toggle_background_color=\u201d#f7f7f7\u2033 closed_toggle_text_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d closed_toggle_background_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d open_icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d admin_label=\u201dNovembre 2020 : Approbation de la FDA pour le lonafarnib (Zokinvy)\u201d _builder_version=\u201d4.16\u2033 title_text_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 background_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d custom_margin=\u201d10px||10px||true\u201d [custom_padding=\u201d|50px||50px||true\u201d animation_style=\u201ddiapositive\u201d animation_direction=\u201dhaut\u201d animation_intensity_slide=\u201d25%\u201d link_option_url_new_window=\u201don\u201d hover_enabled=\u201d0\u2033 z_index_tablet=\u201d500\u2033 border_width_all=\u201d0px\u201d global_colors_info=\u201d{}\u201d sticky_enabled=\u201d0\u2033]<\/p>\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Le 20 novembre 2020, PRF a accompli une partie importante de sa mission : le lonafarnib, le tout premier traitement contre la prog\u00e9ria, a re\u00e7u l&#039;approbation de la FDA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La prog\u00e9ria rejoint d\u00e9sormais moins de 5% des maladies rares avec un traitement approuv\u00e9 par la FDA.* Les enfants et les jeunes adultes atteints de prog\u00e9ria aux \u00c9tats-Unis peuvent d\u00e9sormais acc\u00e9der au lonafarnib (d\u00e9sormais appel\u00e9 \u00ab Zokinvy \u00bb) sur ordonnance, au lieu d&#039;un essai clinique.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cette \u00e9tape importante a \u00e9t\u00e9 franchie gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 13 ann\u00e9es de recherche acharn\u00e9e impliquant quatre essais cliniques, tous coordonn\u00e9s par le PRF, rendus possibles par les enfants courageux et leurs familles, et financ\u00e9s par vous, la merveilleuse communaut\u00e9 de donateurs du PRF.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/fr\/2020\/11\/20\/fda-approval\/\">Cliquez ici<\/a> pour plus d&#039;informations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>*300 maladies rares pour lesquelles un traitement a \u00e9t\u00e9 approuv\u00e9 par la FDA (https:\/\/www.rarediseases.info.nih.gov\/diseases\/FDS-orphan-drugs)\/7\u00a0000 maladies rares pour lesquelles la base mol\u00e9culaire est connue (www.OMIM.org) = 4,2%<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=\u201dAvril 2018 : Une \u00e9tude mondiale publi\u00e9e dans le JAMA r\u00e9v\u00e8le que le traitement au lonafarnib prolonge la survie des enfants atteints de prog\u00e9ria\u201d open_toggle_background_color=\u201d#f7f7f7\u2033 closed_toggle_text_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d closed_toggle_background_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d open_icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d admin_label=\u201dAvril 2018 : Une \u00e9tude mondiale publi\u00e9e dans le JAMA r\u00e9v\u00e8le que le traitement au lonafarnib prolonge la survie des enfants atteints de prog\u00e9ria\u201d _builder_version=\u201d4.16\u2033 title_text_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 background_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d custom_margin=\u201d10px||10px||true\u201d custom_padding=\u201d|50px||50px||true\u201d animation_style=\u201ddiapositive\u201d animation_direction=\u201dhaut\u201d animation_intensity_slide=\u201d25%\u201d link_option_url_new_window=\u201don\u201d hover_enabled=\u201d0\u2033 z_index_tablet=\u201d500\u2033 border_width_all=\u201d0px\u201d global_colors_info=\u201d{}\u201d sticky_enabled=\u201d0\u2033]<\/p>\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<p class=\"vc_tta-panel-title vc_tta-controls-icon-position-left\" data-fontsize=\"19\" data-lineheight=\"24\">Une nouvelle \u00e9tude publi\u00e9e dans le Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) indique que le lonafarnib, un inhibiteur de la farn\u00e9syltransf\u00e9rase (FTI), a permis de prolonger la survie des enfants atteints de prog\u00e9ria. L&#039;\u00e9tude a montr\u00e9 que le traitement par le lonafarnib seul, compar\u00e9 \u00e0 l&#039;absence de traitement, \u00e9tait associ\u00e9 \u00e0 un taux de mortalit\u00e9 significativement plus faible (3,7% contre 33,3%) apr\u00e8s une m\u00e9diane de suivi de 2,2 ans.<strong>\u00a0Il s\u2019agit de la premi\u00e8re preuve que le lonafarnib seul peut am\u00e9liorer la survie \u00e0 cette maladie mortelle.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/fr\/first-ever-demonstrate-survival-benefit-in-progeria\/\"><strong>Cliquez ici<\/strong>\u00a0pour plus de d\u00e9tails.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Association entre le traitement par lonafarnib et l&#039;absence de traitement et le taux de mortalit\u00e9 chez les patients atteints du syndrome de Hutchinson-Gilford-Progeria, Leslie B. Gordon, MD, PhD; Heather Shappell, PhD; Joe Massaro, PhD; Ralph B. D&#039;Agostino Sr., PhD; Joan Brazier, MS; Susan E. Campbell, MA; Monica E. Kleinman, MD; Mark W. Kieran, MD, PhD;\u00a0<em>JAMA,<\/em>\u00a024 avril 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=\u201dJuillet 2016 : R\u00e9sultats de l\u2019essai triple\u201d open_toggle_background_color=\u201d#f7f7f7\u2033 closed_toggle_text_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d closed_toggle_background_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d open_icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d admin_label=\u201dJuillet 2016 : R\u00e9sultats de l\u2019essai triple\u201d _builder_version=\u201d4.16\u2033 title_text_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 background_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d custom_margin=\u201d10px||10px||true\u201d custom_padding=\u201d|50px||50px||true\u201d animation_style=\u201dslide\u201d animation_direction=\u201dhaut\u201d animation_intensity_slide=\u201d25%\u201d link_option_url_new_window=\u201don\u201d hover_enabled=\u201d0\u2033 z_index_tablet=\u201d500\u2033 border_width_all=\u201d0px\u201d global_colors_info=\u201d{}\u201d sticky_enabled=\u201d0\u2033]<\/p>\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<p class=\"vc_tta-panel-title vc_tta-controls-icon-position-left\" data-fontsize=\"19\" data-lineheight=\"24\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/fr\/results-of-triple-drug-trial-for-progeria-published\/\">Juillet 2016 : R\u00e9sultats du Triple Proc\u00e8s<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=\u201dOctobre 2014 : Le parcours remarquable de PRF publi\u00e9 dans Expert Opinion\u201d open_toggle_background_color=\u201d#f7f7f7\u2033 closed_toggle_text_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d closed_toggle_background_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d open_icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d admin_label=\u201dOctobre 2014 : Le parcours remarquable de PRF publi\u00e9 dans Expert Opinion\u201d _builder_version=\u201d4.16\u2033 title_text_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 background_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d custom_margin=\u201d10px||10px||true\u201d custom_padding=\u201d|50px||50px||true\u201d animation_style=\u201ddiapositive\u201d animation_direction=\u201dhaut\u201d animation_intensity_slide=\u201d25%\u201d link_option_url_new_window=\u201don\u201d z_index_tablet=\u201d500\u2033 border_width_all=\u201d0px\u201d global_colors_info=\u201d{}\u201d]<\/p>\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-756 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Figure-1.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Figure-1.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Figure-1-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Figure-1-52x50.jpg 52w, https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Figure-1-66x66.jpg 66w\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"247\" \/>Dans un article publi\u00e9 dans\u00a0<em>Avis d&#039;expert<\/em>\u00a0et r\u00e9dig\u00e9 par la directrice ex\u00e9cutive Audrey Gordon et la directrice m\u00e9dicale Leslie Gordon, les deux dirigeants du PRF discutent de l&#039;histoire, des objectifs et des r\u00e9alisations du PRF, et de la mani\u00e8re dont les programmes du PRF ont \u00e9t\u00e9 essentiels dans le voyage de l&#039;obscurit\u00e9 au traitement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/assets\/files\/pdf\/Expert-Opinion-Article-by-LGordon-and-AGordon.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">*\u00ab La Fondation de recherche sur la prog\u00e9ria : son remarquable parcours depuis l\u2019obscurit\u00e9 jusqu\u2019au traitement \u00bb 30 octobre 2014<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1488059126298\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p>Les auteurs \u00e9crivent : \u00ab Nous esp\u00e9rons que la description des programmes et services de la PRF qui suit, ainsi qu\u2019un compte rendu de la mani\u00e8re dont ils aident la PRF \u00e0 accomplir sa mission de sauver les enfants atteints de prog\u00e9ria, aideront et inspireront d\u2019autres personnes \u00e0 prendre des mesures similaires pour les nombreuses populations atteintes de maladies rares qui ont besoin d\u2019une attention imm\u00e9diate. \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=\u201dMai 2014 : Une \u00e9tude r\u00e9v\u00e8le que les m\u00e9dicaments exp\u00e9rimentaux augmentent la dur\u00e9e de vie estim\u00e9e des enfants atteints de prog\u00e9ria\u201d open_toggle_background_color=\u201d#f7f7f7\u2033 closed_toggle_text_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d closed_toggle_background_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d open_icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d admin_label=\u201dMai 2014 : Une \u00e9tude r\u00e9v\u00e8le que les m\u00e9dicaments exp\u00e9rimentaux augmentent la dur\u00e9e de vie estim\u00e9e des enfants atteints de prog\u00e9ria\u201d _builder_version=\u201d4.16\u2033 title_text_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 background_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d custom_margin=\u201d10px||10px||true\u201d custom_padding=\u201d|50px||50px||true\u201d animation_style=\u201ddiapositive\u201d animation_direction=\u201dhaut\u201d animation_intensity_slide=\u201d25%\u201d link_option_url_new_window=\u201don\u201d z_index_tablet=\u201d500\u2033 border_width_all=\u201d0px\u201d global_colors_info=\u201d{}\u201d]<\/p>\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p>Cette \u00e9tude d\u00e9montre qu&#039;il existe des preuves qu&#039;un inhibiteur de la farn\u00e9syltransf\u00e9rase (FTI) peut prolonger la vie des enfants atteints de prog\u00e9ria d&#039;au moins un an et demi. L&#039;\u00e9tude a montr\u00e9 une prolongation de la survie moyenne de 1,6 an au cours des six ann\u00e9es suivant le d\u00e9but du traitement. Deux autres m\u00e9dicaments ajout\u00e9s plus tard dans les essais, la pravastatine et le zol\u00e9dronate, pourraient \u00e9galement contribuer \u00e0 cette d\u00e9couverte.\u00a0<strong>Il s\u2019agit de la premi\u00e8re preuve que les traitements influencent la survie pour cette maladie mortelle.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/fr\/2014\/05\/06\/drug-increases-lifespan\/\">Cliquez ici<\/a>\u00a0pour plus de d\u00e9tails.<\/p>\n<p>Impact des inhibiteurs de la farn\u00e9sylation sur la survie dans le syndrome de Hutchinson-Gilford prog\u00e9ria, Leslie B. Gordon, MD, PhD, Joe Massaro, PhD, Ralph B. D&#039;Agostino Sr., PhD, Susan E. Campbell, MA, Joan Brazier, MS, W. Ted Brown, MD, PhD, Monica E Kleinman, MD, Mark W. Kieran MD, PhD et le Progeria Clinical Trials Collaborative;\u00a0<em>Circulation<\/em>, 2 mai 2014 (en ligne).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=\u201dSeptembre 2012 : D\u00e9couverte du tout premier traitement contre la Prog\u00e9ria\u201d open_toggle_background_color=\u201d#f7f7f7\u2033 closed_toggle_text_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d closed_toggle_background_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d open_icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d admin_label=\u201dSeptembre 2012 : D\u00e9couverte du tout premier traitement contre la Prog\u00e9ria\u201d _builder_version=\u201d4.16\u2033 title_text_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 background_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d custom_margin=\u201d10px||10px||true\u201d [custom_padding=\u201d|50px||50px||true\u201d animation_style=\u201ddiapositive\u201d animation_direction=\u201dhaut\u201d animation_intensity_slide=\u201d25%\u201d link_option_url_new_window=\u201don\u201d hover_enabled=\u201d0\u2033 z_index_tablet=\u201d500\u2033 border_width_all=\u201d0px\u201d global_colors_info=\u201d{}\u201d sticky_enabled=\u201d0\u2033]<\/p>\n<p>Les r\u00e9sultats de\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/fr\/clinical-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">le tout premier essai clinique de m\u00e9dicament destin\u00e9 aux enfants<\/a>\u00a0Les r\u00e9sultats de l&#039;\u00e9tude* sur la prog\u00e9ria r\u00e9v\u00e8lent que le lonafarnib, un type d&#039;inhibiteur de la farn\u00e9syltransf\u00e9rase (FTI) d\u00e9velopp\u00e9 \u00e0 l&#039;origine pour traiter le cancer, s&#039;est av\u00e9r\u00e9 efficace contre la prog\u00e9ria. Chaque enfant a montr\u00e9 une am\u00e9lioration dans un ou plusieurs des quatre domaines suivants : prise de poids suppl\u00e9mentaire, meilleure audition, am\u00e9lioration de la structure osseuse et\/ou, plus important encore, augmentation de la flexibilit\u00e9 des vaisseaux sanguins. L&#039;\u00e9tude* a \u00e9t\u00e9 financ\u00e9e et coordonn\u00e9e par la Progeria Research Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/FINAL-PNAS-Press-Release.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cliquez ici<\/a>\u00a0pour plus de d\u00e9tails.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Gordon LB<\/strong>, Kleinman ME, Miller DT, Neuberg D, Giobbie-Hurder A, Gerhard-Herman M, Smoot L, Gordon CM, Cleveland R, Snyder BD, Fligor B, Bishop WR, Statkevich P, Regen A, Sonis A, Riley S, Ploski C, Correia A, Quinn N, Ullrich NJ, Nazarian A, Liang MG, Huh SY, Schwartzman A, Kieran MW, Essai clinique d&#039;un inhibiteur de la farn\u00e9syltransf\u00e9rase chez les enfants atteints du syndrome de Hutchinson-Gilford-Progeria,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/cgi\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.1202529109\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Actes de l&#039;Acad\u00e9mie nationale des sciences<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong>9 octobre 2012 vol. 109 no. 41 16666-16671<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=\u201dOctobre 2011 : Une nouvelle approche du traitement de la prog\u00e9ria\u201d open_toggle_background_color=\u201d#f7f7f7\u2033 closed_toggle_text_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d closed_toggle_background_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d open_icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d admin_label=\u201dOctobre 2011 : Une nouvelle approche du traitement de la prog\u00e9ria\u201d _builder_version=\u201d4.16\u2033 title_text_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 background_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d custom_margin=\u201d10px||10px||true\u201d custom_padding=\u201d|50px||50px||true\u201d animation_style=\u201ddiapositive\u201d animation_direction=\u201dhaut\u201d animation_intensity_slide=\u201d25%\u201d link_option_url_new_window=\u201don\u201d z_index_tablet=\u201d500\u2033 border_width_all=\u201d0px\u201d global_colors_info=\u201d{}\u201d]<\/p>\n<div id=\"1488059409784-71ca0fef-3046\" class=\"vc_tta-panel vc_active\" data-vc-content=\".vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<p class=\"vc_tta-panel-title vc_tta-controls-icon-position-left\" data-fontsize=\"19\" data-lineheight=\"24\">Des scientifiques espagnols et fran\u00e7ais, dirig\u00e9s par Carlos L\u00f3pez-Otin (Oviedo) et Nicolas L\u00e9vy (Marseille), ont publi\u00e9 une \u00e9tude passionnante qui pourrait d\u00e9boucher sur une nouvelle approche du traitement de la prog\u00e9ria (1). Alors que les m\u00e9dicaments utilis\u00e9s jusqu&#039;\u00e0 pr\u00e9sent dans les essais cliniques du PRF ciblaient les modifications apport\u00e9es \u00e0 la prot\u00e9ine anormale lamine A (prog\u00e9rine) produite dans les cellules de la prog\u00e9ria, dans le nouveau travail, l&#039;\u00ab \u00e9pissage \u00bb anormal de l&#039;ARN messager (ARNm) de la lamine A codant pour la prot\u00e9ine lamine A est bloqu\u00e9, ce qui entra\u00eene une diminution de la production de prog\u00e9rine. L&#039;agent bloquant utilis\u00e9 est une petite mol\u00e9cule d&#039;ARN modifi\u00e9e dont la s\u00e9quence est compl\u00e9mentaire de la r\u00e9gion de l&#039;ARNm de la prog\u00e9ria o\u00f9 se produit l&#039;\u00e9pissage. Cette mol\u00e9cule se lie au site d&#039;\u00e9pissage et emp\u00eache la liaison \u00e0 celui-ci du complexe de prot\u00e9ines et de mol\u00e9cules d&#039;ARN n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l&#039;\u00e9pissage (le \u00ab spliceosome \u00bb).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p>En 2005, il a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9montr\u00e9 que l&#039;\u00e9pissage anormal des cellules cutan\u00e9es cultiv\u00e9es de Progeria pouvait \u00eatre \u00e9vit\u00e9 de cette mani\u00e8re (2). Cependant, pour traiter les patients, le r\u00e9actif inhibiteur doit \u00eatre d\u00e9livr\u00e9 intact \u00e0 tous les tissus du patient. Il a fallu six ann\u00e9es suppl\u00e9mentaires et des travaux dans plusieurs laboratoires pour d\u00e9velopper ces m\u00e9thodes de \u00ab d\u00e9livrance \u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>Dans la nouvelle \u00e9tude (1), le blocage de l&#039;\u00e9pissage anormal chez la souris mod\u00e8le a donn\u00e9 des r\u00e9sultats impressionnants. On a observ\u00e9 une nette r\u00e9duction des concentrations de prog\u00e9rine dans tous les tissus analys\u00e9s, \u00e0 l&#039;exception du muscle squelettique, qui peut avoir une absorption r\u00e9duite de l&#039;agent bloquant. Les souris mod\u00e8les ont r\u00e9capitul\u00e9 de nombreux ph\u00e9notypes des patients atteints de prog\u00e9ria, notamment<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dur\u00e9e de vie consid\u00e9rablement r\u00e9duite (103 jours contre 2 ans pour les souris de type sauvage).<\/li>\n<li>R\u00e9duction du taux de croissance.<\/li>\n<li>Posture anormale avec courbure de la colonne vert\u00e9brale.<\/li>\n<li>Aberrations nucl\u00e9aires profondes r\u00e9sultant de l&#039;accumulation de prog\u00e9rine.<\/li>\n<li>Perte g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de la couche de graisse sous la peau.<\/li>\n<li>Alt\u00e9rations osseuses profondes.<\/li>\n<li>Alt\u00e9rations cardiovasculaires, y compris une perte importante de cellules musculaires lisses vasculaires.<\/li>\n<li>Modifications des concentrations de diverses hormones dans le plasma sanguin circulant, notamment l\u2019insuline et l\u2019hormone de croissance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Le\u00a0<strong>in vivo\u00a0<\/strong>La d\u00e9monstration de l\u2019efficacit\u00e9 de la r\u00e9duction de la production de prog\u00e9rine en bloquant l\u2019\u00e9pissage aberrant est un candidat solide pour une nouvelle approche pr\u00e9cieuse de la th\u00e9rapie de la Prog\u00e9ria.<\/p>\n<p>(1) Osorio FG, Navarro CL, Cadi\u00f1anos J, L\u00f3pez-Mejia IC, Quir\u00f3s PM, et al, Science Translational Medicine,\u00a0<strong>3:\u00a0<\/strong>Num\u00e9ro 106, publication anticip\u00e9e en ligne, 26 octobre (2011).<\/p>\n<p>(2) Scaffidi, P. et Misteli, T. Inversion du ph\u00e9notype cellulaire dans le syndrome de Hutchinson-Gilford, une maladie de vieillissement pr\u00e9matur\u00e9, Nature Medicine\u00a0<strong>11<\/strong>\u00a0(4): 440-445 (2005).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"1488059460261-c11561ba-9652\" class=\"vc_tta-panel\" data-vc-content=\".vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<h4 class=\"vc_tta-panel-title vc_tta-controls-icon-position-left\" data-fontsize=\"19\" data-lineheight=\"24\">\u00a0<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=\u201dJuin 2011 : Une \u00e9tude financ\u00e9e par le PRF identifie la rapamycine comme traitement possible de la prog\u00e9ria\u201d open_toggle_background_color=\u201d#f7f7f7\u2033 closed_toggle_text_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d closed_toggle_background_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d open_icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d admin_label=\u201dJuin 2011 : Une \u00e9tude financ\u00e9e par le PRF identifie la rapamycine comme traitement possible de la prog\u00e9ria\u201d _builder_version=\u201d4.16\u2033 title_text_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 background_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d custom_margin=\u201d10px||10px||true\u201d custom_padding=\u201d|50px||50px||true\u201d animation_style=\u201ddiapositive\u201d animation_direction=\u201dhaut\u201d animation_intensity_slide=\u201d25%\u201d link_option_url_new_window=\u201don\u201d z_index_tablet=\u201d500\u2033 border_width_all=\u201d0px\u201d global_colors_info=\u201d{}\u201d]<\/p>\n<div id=\"1488059409784-71ca0fef-3046\" class=\"vc_tta-panel vc_active\" data-vc-content=\".vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/assets\/images\/medical_images\/Cao-with-caption.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"169\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p>Des chercheurs des National Institutes of Health et du Massachusetts General Hospital de Boston, dans le Massachusetts, ont publi\u00e9 aujourd&#039;hui une nouvelle \u00e9tude\u00a0<em>Sciences, M\u00e9decine translationnelle<\/em>\u00a0Cela pourrait conduire \u00e0 un nouveau traitement m\u00e9dicamenteux pour les enfants atteints de prog\u00e9ria.*<\/p>\n<p><em>Rapamycin<\/em> La rapamycine est un m\u00e9dicament approuv\u00e9 par la FDA qui a d\u00e9j\u00e0 montr\u00e9 qu&#039;il prolongeait la vie des mod\u00e8les de souris non atteintes de prog\u00e9ria. Cette nouvelle \u00e9tude d\u00e9montre que la rapamycine diminue la quantit\u00e9 de la prot\u00e9ine prog\u00e9rine responsable de la maladie de 50%, am\u00e9liore la forme nucl\u00e9aire anormale et prolonge la dur\u00e9e de vie des cellules prog\u00e9ria. Cette \u00e9tude fournit la premi\u00e8re preuve que la rapamycine pourrait \u00eatre capable de r\u00e9duire les effets n\u00e9fastes de la prog\u00e9rine chez les enfants atteints de prog\u00e9ria.<\/p>\n<p>La couverture m\u00e9diatique est \u00e9norme \u00e0 ce sujet ! Cliquez ci-dessous pour acc\u00e9der aux liens vers les articles des m\u00e9dias :<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/health\/2011\/06\/29\/a-new-drug-for-rare-fatal-childhood-disease\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blog sur la sant\u00e9 du Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/health.usnews.com\/health-news\/family-health\/boomer-health\/articles\/2011\/06\/29\/organ-transplant-drug-might-treat-rapid-aging-disease-in-kids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Actualit\u00e9s am\u00e9ricaines et mondiales<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2014\/05\/unorthodox-study-claims-drug-prolongs-lives-children-premature-aging-disease\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Magazine scientifique<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.com\/lifestyle\/health\/articles\/2011\/06\/30\/childrens_hospital_plans_trial_of_drug_for_aging_disorder\/?p1=News_links\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boston Globe<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/HEALTH\/07\/01\/progeria.treatment.aging.collins\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN<\/a><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>La Fondation de recherche sur la prog\u00e9ria a \u00e9t\u00e9 ravie de fournir des cellules pour ce projet \u00e0 partir de la\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/fr\/cell-and-tissue-bank\/\">Banque de cellules et de tissus PRF<\/a><\/strong>, et aidez \u00e0 financer la recherche gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 notre\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/fr\/grants-funded\/\">programme de subventions<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cette nouvelle \u00e9tude passionnante d\u00e9montre le rythme remarquable de la recherche sur la prog\u00e9ria, tout en offrant un meilleur aper\u00e7u du processus de vieillissement qui nous affecte tous.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*\u00ab La rapamycine inverse les ph\u00e9notypes cellulaires et am\u00e9liore la clairance des prot\u00e9ines mutantes dans les cellules prog\u00e9ria de Hutchinson-Gilford \u00bb<br \/>Kan Cao, John J. Graziotto, Cecilia D. Blair, Joseph R. Mazzulli, Michael R. Erdos, Dimitri Krainc, Francis S. Collins<\/strong><br \/><strong>Sci Transl Med. 2011 29 juin;3(89):89ra58.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=\u201dJuin 2011 : \u00c9tude r\u00e9volutionnaire sur le lien entre la prog\u00e9ria et le vieillissement\u201d open_toggle_background_color=\u201d#f7f7f7\u2033 closed_toggle_text_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d closed_toggle_background_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d open_icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d admin_label=\u201dJuin 2011 : \u00c9tude r\u00e9volutionnaire sur le lien entre la prog\u00e9ria et le vieillissement\u201d _builder_version=\u201d4.16\u2033 title_text_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 background_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d custom_margin=\u201d10px||10px||true\u201d custom_padding=\u201d|50px||50px||true\u201d animation_style=\u201ddiapositive\u201d animation_direction=\u201dhaut\u201d animation_intensity_slide=\u201d25%\u201d link_option_url_new_window=\u201don\u201d z_index_tablet=\u201d500\u2033 border_width_all=\u201d0px\u201d global_colors_info=\u201d{}\u201d]<\/p>\n<div id=\"1488059409784-71ca0fef-3046\" class=\"vc_tta-panel vc_active\" data-vc-content=\".vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2011\/06\/13\/eveningnews\/main20070910.shtml?tag=broadcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Journal du soir de CBS<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/health\/2011\/06\/13\/rare-disease-of-progeria-offers-clues-to-normal-aging\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>\u00a0et\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/healthy-aging\/news\/20110613\/scientists-find-new-clues-to-aging\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Autres<\/a>\u00a0Rapport sur une nouvelle \u00e9tude<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv314624100msonormal\">Des chercheurs des National Institutes of Health ont d\u00e9couvert un lien jusqu&#039;alors inconnu entre la prog\u00e9ria et le vieillissement. Les r\u00e9sultats apportent des informations sur la relation entre la prot\u00e9ine toxique \u00e0 l&#039;origine de la prog\u00e9ria, connue sous le nom de\u00a0<strong>prog\u00e9rine\u00a0<\/strong>et\u00a0<strong>t\u00e9lom\u00e8res<\/strong>, qui prot\u00e8gent les extr\u00e9mit\u00e9s de l\u2019ADN dans les cellules jusqu\u2019\u00e0 ce qu\u2019elles s\u2019usent avec le temps et que les cellules meurent.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/assets\/images\/medical_images\/panel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"159\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Les cellules exprimant la prog\u00e9rine provenant d&#039;individus normaux pr\u00e9sentent des signes de s\u00e9nescence. L&#039;ADN du noyau est color\u00e9 en bleu. Les t\u00e9lom\u00e8res sont visibles sous forme de points rouges.<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"yiv314624100msonormal\">L&#039;\u00e9tude* est parue dans l&#039;\u00e9dition en ligne du 13 juin 2011 du Journal of Clinical Investigation. Elle conclut que dans le vieillissement normal, les t\u00e9lom\u00e8res courts ou dysfonctionnels stimulent les cellules \u00e0 produire de la prog\u00e9rine, qui est associ\u00e9e aux dommages cellulaires li\u00e9s \u00e0 l&#039;\u00e2ge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv314624100msonormal\">\u00ab<strong>\u00ab Pour la premi\u00e8re fois, nous savons que le raccourcissement et le dysfonctionnement des t\u00e9lom\u00e8res influencent la production de prog\u00e9rine \u00bb, explique le Dr Leslie B. Gordon, directrice m\u00e9dicale de la Progeria Research Foundation. \u00ab Ces deux processus, qui influencent tous deux le vieillissement cellulaire, sont donc en r\u00e9alit\u00e9 li\u00e9s. \u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv314624100msonormal\">Des recherches ant\u00e9rieures ont montr\u00e9 que la prog\u00e9rine n\u2019est pas seulement produite chez les enfants atteints de prog\u00e9ria, mais qu\u2019elle est produite en plus petite quantit\u00e9 chez nous tous, et que les niveaux de prog\u00e9rine augmentent avec l\u2019\u00e2ge. Ind\u00e9pendamment, des recherches ant\u00e9rieures sur le raccourcissement et le dysfonctionnement des t\u00e9lom\u00e8res ont \u00e9t\u00e9 associ\u00e9es au vieillissement normal. Depuis 2003, avec la d\u00e9couverte de la mutation du g\u00e8ne de la prog\u00e9ria et de la prot\u00e9ine prog\u00e9rine qui cause la maladie, l\u2019un des principaux domaines de recherche s\u2019est concentr\u00e9 sur la compr\u00e9hension du lien entre la prog\u00e9ria et le vieillissement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv314624100msonormal\">\u00ab L\u2019association entre ce ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne de maladie rare et le vieillissement normal porte ses fruits de mani\u00e8re importante \u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 le directeur du NIH, Francis S. Collins, docteur en m\u00e9decine et auteur principal de l\u2019\u00e9tude. \u00ab Cette \u00e9tude montre que l\u2019\u00e9tude de troubles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques rares tels que la prog\u00e9ria permet d\u2019obtenir des informations biologiques pr\u00e9cieuses. Nous avons senti d\u00e8s le d\u00e9part que la prog\u00e9ria avait beaucoup \u00e0 nous apprendre sur le processus normal de vieillissement. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv314624100msoplaintext\">Les scientifiques ont traditionnellement \u00e9tudi\u00e9 les t\u00e9lom\u00e8res et la prog\u00e9rine s\u00e9par\u00e9ment. Bien qu\u2019il reste encore beaucoup \u00e0 apprendre pour savoir si cette nouvelle connexion peut conduire \u00e0 un traitement pour les enfants atteints de prog\u00e9ria ou peut potentiellement \u00eatre appliqu\u00e9e \u00e0 l\u2019allongement de la dur\u00e9e de vie humaine, cette \u00e9tude fournit une preuve suppl\u00e9mentaire que la prog\u00e9rine, la prot\u00e9ine toxique d\u00e9couverte gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 la d\u00e9couverte de la mutation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique de la prog\u00e9ria, joue un r\u00f4le dans le processus normal de vieillissement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv314624100msoplaintext justifyleft\"><strong>*<em>La prog\u00e9rine et le dysfonctionnement des t\u00e9lom\u00e8res collaborent pour d\u00e9clencher la s\u00e9nescence cellulaire dans les fibroblastes humains normaux<\/em>, Cao et al,\u00a0<em>J Clin Invest\u00a0<\/em>doi:10.1172\/JCI43578.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv314624100msoplaintext\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/fr\/assets\/files\/pdf\/psa_ads\/NIH%20Press%20Release.pdf\/\">Cliquez ici<\/a>\u00a0pour le texte int\u00e9gral du communiqu\u00e9 de presse du NIH.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=\u201dMai 2011 : La cause du syndrome prog\u00e9ro\u00efde d\u00e9couverte, offrant un nouvel \u00e9clairage sur le lien entre la prog\u00e9ria et le vieillissement\u201d open_toggle_background_color=\u201d#f7f7f7\u2033 closed_toggle_text_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d closed_toggle_background_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d open_icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d admin_label=\u201dMai 2011 : La cause du syndrome prog\u00e9ro\u00efde d\u00e9couverte, offrant un nouvel \u00e9clairage sur le lien entre la prog\u00e9ria et le vieillissement\u201d _builder_version=\u201d4.16\u2033 title_text_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 background_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d custom_margin=\u201d10px||10px||true\u201d custom_padding=\u201d|50px||50px||true\u201d animation_style=\u201ddiapositive\u201d animation_direction=\u201dhaut\u201d animation_intensity_slide=\u201d25%\u201d link_option_url_new_window=\u201don\u201d z_index_tablet=\u201d500\u2033 border_width_all=\u201d0px\u201d global_colors_info=\u201d{}\u201d]<\/p>\n<div id=\"1488059409784-71ca0fef-3046\" class=\"vc_tta-panel vc_active\" data-vc-content=\".vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<p class=\"vc_tta-panel-title vc_tta-controls-icon-position-left\" data-fontsize=\"19\" data-lineheight=\"24\">Une mutation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique r\u00e9cemment d\u00e9couverte associ\u00e9e \u00e0 une maladie de type Progeria pourrait ouvrir la voie \u00e0 de nouveaux traitements possibles pour les troubles du vieillissement pr\u00e9matur\u00e9 et pourrait apporter de nouvelles perspectives sur le vieillissement normal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p>Une \u00e9quipe de recherche dirig\u00e9e par un chercheur sur la prog\u00e9ria<strong>\u00a0Dr Carlos L\u00f3pez-Ot\u00edn<\/strong>\u00a0Une \u00e9quipe de chercheurs de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 d\u2019Oviedo en Espagne a rencontr\u00e9 deux familles dont les enfants \u00e9taient atteints d\u2019une maladie du vieillissement acc\u00e9l\u00e9r\u00e9 jusqu\u2019alors inconnue, semblable \u00e0 la prog\u00e9ria. Les enfants ne pr\u00e9sentaient aucun d\u00e9faut dans les g\u00e8nes qui avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9c\u00e9demment li\u00e9s aux maladies prog\u00e9ro\u00efdes, mais en \u00e9tudiant les parties \u00ab codantes \u00bb de leurs g\u00e9nomes, l\u2019\u00e9quipe a d\u00e9couvert un d\u00e9faut dans un g\u00e8ne appel\u00e9 BANF1. Les membres de la famille atteints de la maladie prog\u00e9ro\u00efde pr\u00e9sentaient de tr\u00e8s faibles quantit\u00e9s de la prot\u00e9ine produite par BANF1 et, comme les personnes atteintes de prog\u00e9ria, les enveloppes nucl\u00e9aires de leurs cellules \u00e9taient nettement anormales. Les anomalies ont disparu lors d\u2019exp\u00e9riences de culture cellulaire lorsque le g\u00e8ne d\u00e9fectueux a \u00e9t\u00e9 remplac\u00e9 par la version correcte. Les r\u00e9sultats ont \u00e9t\u00e9 publi\u00e9s dans la revue\u00a0<em>Journal am\u00e9ricain de g\u00e9n\u00e9tique humaine\u00a0<\/em>en mai 2011.<\/p>\n<p>BANF1 rejoint d\u00e9sormais le groupe de g\u00e8nes connus qui semblent influencer certaines formes de vieillissement pr\u00e9matur\u00e9 \u2013 et qui pourraient \u00e9galement affecter le vieillissement normal.<\/p>\n<p>Ces derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es, les scientifiques ont pu mieux comprendre le vieillissement normal au niveau mol\u00e9culaire, en partie gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 des \u00e9tudes sur des syndromes de vieillissement pr\u00e9matur\u00e9 comme celui-ci, ainsi que sur la prog\u00e9ria, qui \u00ab provoque le d\u00e9veloppement pr\u00e9coce de caract\u00e9ristiques normalement associ\u00e9es \u00e0 un \u00e2ge avanc\u00e9 \u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 L\u00f3pez-Ot\u00edn. Il a ajout\u00e9 que son \u00e9tude \u00ab souligne l\u2019importance de la lame nucl\u00e9aire pour le vieillissement humain et d\u00e9montre l\u2019utilit\u00e9 des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9quen\u00e7age du g\u00e9nome pour identifier la cause g\u00e9n\u00e9tique de maladies rares et d\u00e9vastatrices, qui ont traditionnellement re\u00e7u une attention limit\u00e9e \u00bb.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Xose S. Puente, Victor Quesada, Fernando G. Osorio, Rub\u00e9n Cabanillas, Juan Cadi\u00f1anos, Julia M. Fraile, Gonzalo R. Ord\u00f3\u00f1ez, Diana A. Puente, Ana Guti\u00e9rrez-Fern\u00e1ndez, Miriam Fanjul-Fern\u00e1ndez et al. &quot;Le s\u00e9quen\u00e7age de l&#039;exome et l&#039;analyse fonctionnelle identifient la mutation BANF1 comme la cause d&#039;un syndrome prog\u00e9ro\u00efde h\u00e9r\u00e9ditaire.&quot;<em>\u00a0Revue am\u00e9ricaine de g\u00e9n\u00e9tique humaine, 5 mai 2011 DOI : 10.1016\/j.ajhg.2011.04.010<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=\u201dAo\u00fbt 2010 : Le facteur de croissance analogue \u00e0 l\u2019insuline 1 am\u00e9liore les sympt\u00f4mes et prolonge la vie d\u2019une souris prog\u00e9ro\u00efde\u201d open_toggle_background_color=\u201d#f7f7f7\u2033 closed_toggle_text_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d closed_toggle_background_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d open_icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d admin_label=\u201dAo\u00fbt 2010 : Le facteur de croissance analogue \u00e0 l\u2019insuline 1 am\u00e9liore les sympt\u00f4mes et prolonge la vie d\u2019une souris prog\u00e9ro\u00efde\u201d _builder_version=\u201d4.16\u2033 title_text_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 background_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d custom_margin=\u201d10px||10px||true\u201d custom_padding=\u201d|50px||50px||true\u201d animation_style=\u201ddiapositive\u201d animation_direction=\u201dhaut\u201d animation_intensity_slide=\u201d25%\u201d link_option_url_new_window=\u201don\u201d z_index_tablet=\u201d500\u2033 border_width_all=\u201d0px\u201d global_colors_info=\u201d{}\u201d]<\/p>\n<div id=\"1488059409784-71ca0fef-3046\" class=\"vc_tta-panel vc_active\" data-vc-content=\".vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<p>Le 26 ao\u00fbt 2010,\u00a0<em>Art\u00e9rioscl\u00e9rose, thrombose et biologie vasculaire<\/em>\u00a0Les r\u00e9sultats d\u2019une \u00e9tude comparant la prog\u00e9ria et le vieillissement cardiovasculaire typique, intitul\u00e9e \u00ab Pathologie cardiovasculaire dans la prog\u00e9ria de Hutchinson-Gilford : corr\u00e9lation avec la pathologie vasculaire du vieillissement \u00bb, ont \u00e9t\u00e9 publi\u00e9s \u00e9lectroniquement avant impression. L\u2019\u00e9tude a r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 que la prog\u00e9rine, la prot\u00e9ine anormale responsable de la prog\u00e9ria, est \u00e9galement pr\u00e9sente dans le syst\u00e8me vasculaire de la population g\u00e9n\u00e9rale et augmente avec l\u2019\u00e2ge, ce qui renforce les arguments de plus en plus nombreux en faveur d\u2019un parall\u00e8le entre le vieillissement normal et le vieillissement d\u00fb \u00e0 la prog\u00e9ria.<\/p>\n<p>Les chercheurs ont examin\u00e9 les autopsies cardiovasculaires et la distribution de la prog\u00e9rine chez des patients atteints de Progeria ainsi qu&#039;un groupe sans Progeria entre les \u00e2ges d&#039;un mois et 97 ans, et ont d\u00e9couvert que la prog\u00e9rine chez les individus sans Progeria augmentait en moyenne de 3,3 pour cent par an dans les art\u00e8res coronaires.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab Nous avons d\u00e9couvert des similitudes entre de nombreux aspects des maladies cardiovasculaires, \u00e0 la fois dans la prog\u00e9ria et dans l\u2019ath\u00e9roscl\u00e9rose qui touche des millions de personnes dans le monde \u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 le Dr Leslie Gordon, auteur principal de l\u2019\u00e9tude et directeur m\u00e9dical de la Progeria Research Foundation. \u00ab En examinant l\u2019une des maladies les plus rares au monde, nous acqu\u00e9rons des connaissances cruciales sur une maladie qui touche des millions de personnes dans le monde. Les recherches en cours ont le potentiel d\u2019avoir un impact significatif sur notre compr\u00e9hension des maladies cardiaques et du vieillissement. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Cette \u00e9tude soutient la possibilit\u00e9 que la prog\u00e9rine contribue au risque d\u2019ath\u00e9roscl\u00e9rose dans la population g\u00e9n\u00e9rale et m\u00e9rite d\u2019\u00eatre examin\u00e9e en tant que nouveau trait potentiel pour aider \u00e0 pr\u00e9dire le risque de maladie cardiaque.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fran\u00e7ais Olive M, Harten I, Mitchell R, Beers J, Djabali K, Cao K, Erdos MR, Blair C, Funke B, Smoot L, Gerhard-Herman M, Machan JT, Kutys R, Virmani R, Collins FS, Wight TN, Nabel EG, Gordon LB.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/20798379\"><br \/>\u00ab Pathologie cardiovasculaire dans la prog\u00e9ria de Hutchinson-Gilford : corr\u00e9lation avec la pathologie vasculaire du vieillissement \u00bb<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><strong><em>Art\u00e9rioscl\u00e9reux Thromb Vasc Biol.<\/em><\/strong><strong>\u00a02010\u00a0<\/strong><strong>novembre\u00a0; 30\u00a0(11)\u00a0:\u00a02301-9\u00a0; Publication en ligne le 26 ao\u00fbt 2010.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=\u201dMai 2010 : Des \u00e9tudes d\u2019Oxford montrent comment la recherche sur la Prog\u00e9ria peut am\u00e9liorer notre compr\u00e9hension du vieillissement normal\u201d open_toggle_background_color=\u201d#f7f7f7\u2033 closed_toggle_text_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d closed_toggle_background_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d open_icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d admin_label=\u201dMai 2010 : Des \u00e9tudes d\u2019Oxford montrent comment la recherche sur la Prog\u00e9ria peut am\u00e9liorer notre compr\u00e9hension du vieillissement normal\u201d _builder_version=\u201d4.16\u2033 title_text_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 background_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d custom_margin=\u201d10px||10px||true\u201d custom_padding=\u201d|50px||50px||true\u201d animation_style=\u201ddiapositive\u201d animation_direction=\u201dhaut\u201d animation_intensity_slide=\u201d25%\u201d link_option_url_new_window=\u201don\u201d z_index_tablet=\u201d500\u2033 border_width_all=\u201d0px\u201d global_colors_info=\u201d{}\u201d]<\/p>\n<div id=\"1488059409784-71ca0fef-3046\" class=\"vc_tta-panel vc_active\" data-vc-content=\".vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<p class=\"vc_tta-panel-title vc_tta-controls-icon-position-left\" data-fontsize=\"19\" data-lineheight=\"24\">Dans cet article, Catherine Shanahan et son groupe de l&#039;Universit\u00e9 d&#039;Oxford ont r\u00e9alis\u00e9 une avanc\u00e9e majeure dans l&#039;\u00e9lucidation d&#039;une \u00e9tape cl\u00e9 du vieillissement des vaisseaux sanguins humains (vieillissement vasculaire). Les exp\u00e9riences d\u00e9coulent directement des travaux sur la prog\u00e9ria, r\u00e9alis\u00e9s dans un certain nombre de laboratoires. Les deux principales d\u00e9couvertes du groupe de Shanahan sont les suivantes : (1) la pr\u00e9lamine A s&#039;accumule dans les cellules musculaires lisses vasculaires (VSMC) des individus \u00e2g\u00e9s mais pas des individus jeunes, et (2) cette accumulation r\u00e9sulte, au moins en partie, de l&#039;\u00e9puisement de l&#039;enzyme FACE1. FACE1 (\u00e9galement appel\u00e9 Zmpte24) est n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l&#039;\u00e9limination du groupe farn\u00e9syle de la pr\u00e9lamine A, lors de la transformation en lamine A normale, un composant essentiel du noyau cellulaire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p>Cette situation est tr\u00e8s similaire \u00e0 celle de la Prog\u00e9ria. Dans ce cas, la pr\u00e9lamine A (appel\u00e9e prog\u00e9rine) conserve le groupe farn\u00e9syle. En effet, l&#039;\u00e9tape initiale de la maladie est l&#039;\u00e9chec de l&#039;\u00e9limination du groupe farn\u00e9syle. Cet \u00e9chec se produit parce que la mutation de la Prog\u00e9ria entra\u00eene la suppression de la partie de la pr\u00e9lamine A n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 la liaison de FACE 1 et \u00e0 l&#039;\u00e9limination du groupe farn\u00e9syle. Ainsi, la cause des d\u00e9fauts du vieillissement et de la Prog\u00e9ria est la m\u00eame : FACE1 ne peut pas faire son travail.<\/p>\n<p>On sait depuis quelques ann\u00e9es que les inhibiteurs de la farn\u00e9syltransf\u00e9rase (FTI) inhibent (et peuvent inverser) la pr\u00e9sence de marqueurs nucl\u00e9aires de la maladie dans les cellules de Progeria. Shanahan et al ont maintenant d\u00e9couvert que les FTI inhibent l\u2019apparition de marqueurs nucl\u00e9aires similaires dans les cellules d\u2019individus normaux \u00e2g\u00e9s. Les FTI sont actuellement utilis\u00e9s dans les essais cliniques sur la Progeria et Shanahan et al notent que ces essais cliniques \u00ab apporteront un \u00e9clairage suppl\u00e9mentaire sur le potentiel th\u00e9rapeutique de ces m\u00e9dicaments dans le traitement du vieillissement \u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>Les \u00e9tudes d\u00e9crites dans cet article sont le meilleur exemple \u00e0 ce jour de la mani\u00e8re dont les \u00e9tudes sur la prog\u00e9ria am\u00e9liorent notre compr\u00e9hension du vieillissement normal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ragnauth CD, Warren DT, Liu Y, Shanahan CM et al, \u00ab La pr\u00e9lamine A agit pour acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer la s\u00e9nescence des cellules musculaires lisses et constitue un nouveau biomarqueur du vieillissement vasculaire humain. \u00bb Circulation : 25 mai 2010, pp. 2200-2210.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=\u201dAvril 2010 : Nouvelle preuve que dans la Progeria, la pr\u00e9sence d\u2019un groupe farn\u00e9syle dans la mol\u00e9cule de prog\u00e9rine est responsable des sympt\u00f4mes de la maladie.\u201d open_toggle_background_color=\u201d#f7f7f7\u2033 closed_toggle_text_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d closed_toggle_background_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d open_icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d admin_label=\u201dAvril 2010 : Nouvelle preuve que dans la Progeria, la pr\u00e9sence d\u2019un groupe farn\u00e9syle dans la mol\u00e9cule de prog\u00e9rine est responsable des sympt\u00f4mes de la maladie.\u201d _builder_version=\u201d4.16\u2033 title_text_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 background_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d custom_margin=\u201d10px||10px||true\u201d custom_padding=\u201d|50px||50px||true\u201d animation_style=\u201ddiapositive\u201d animation_direction=\u201dhaut\u201d animation_intensity_slide=\u201d25%\u201d link_option_url_new_window=\u201don\u201d z_index_tablet=\u201d500\u2033 border_width_all=\u201d0px\u201d global_colors_info=\u201d{}\u201d]<\/p>\n<div id=\"1488059409784-71ca0fef-3046\" class=\"vc_tta-panel vc_active\" data-vc-content=\".vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<p class=\"vc_tta-panel-title vc_tta-controls-icon-position-left\" data-fontsize=\"19\" data-lineheight=\"24\">Dans notre article de f\u00e9vrier intitul\u00e9 \u00ab Quoi de neuf dans la recherche sur la prog\u00e9ria \u00bb, nous avons rapport\u00e9 des preuves selon lesquelles un inhibiteur de la farn\u00e9syltransf\u00e9rase (FTI) agit pour soulager les sympt\u00f4mes de la maladie par la farn\u00e9sylation de la prog\u00e9rine, et non en inhibant d\u2019autres prot\u00e9ines que la prog\u00e9rine. Le groupe de l\u2019UCLA dirig\u00e9 par les anciens boursiers de recherche du PRF Stephen Young et Loren Fong a maintenant rapport\u00e9 des r\u00e9sultats sur une autre laminopathie prog\u00e9ro\u00efde s\u00e9v\u00e8re qui \u00e9tayent cette conclusion. Dans la dermatopathie restrictive (RD), la pr\u00e9lamine A reste farn\u00e9syl\u00e9e, comme c\u2019est le cas pour la prog\u00e9rine chez les patients atteints de prog\u00e9ria, la pr\u00e9lamine A RD ne pr\u00e9sente pas la d\u00e9l\u00e9tion de 50 acides amin\u00e9s de la prog\u00e9rine, mais elle a conserv\u00e9 les 15 acides amin\u00e9s terminaux \u00e0 l\u2019extr\u00e9mit\u00e9 carboxyle de la pr\u00e9lamine A, qui est cliv\u00e9e dans la prog\u00e9rine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p>Davies et ses coll\u00e8gues ont pr\u00e9par\u00e9 un nouveau mod\u00e8le de souris dont la pr\u00e9lamine A, contrairement \u00e0 la pr\u00e9lamine A RD, n&#039;est pas farn\u00e9syl\u00e9e, mais conserve la s\u00e9quence de 15 acides amin\u00e9s qui est normalement cliv\u00e9e dans le chemin de synth\u00e8se de la lamine A. Cette souris ne pr\u00e9sente pas de sympt\u00f4mes prog\u00e9ro\u00efdes, ce qui indique que dans le RD, ainsi que dans la Progeria, la pr\u00e9sence du groupe farn\u00e9syle, et non un changement de s\u00e9quence d&#039;acides amin\u00e9s, est responsable des sympt\u00f4mes de la maladie.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Davies BS, Barnes RH 2nd, Tu Y, Ren S, Andres DA, Spielmann HP, Lammerding J, Wang Y, Young SG, Fong LG,<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/20421363\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00ab Une accumulation de pr\u00e9lamine A non farn\u00e9syl\u00e9e provoque une cardiomyopathie mais pas de prog\u00e9ria \u00bb<\/a>,<\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0Hum Mol Genet.<\/em>\u00a026 avril 2010. [Publication \u00e9lectronique avant impression]<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=\u201dF\u00e9vrier 2010 : De nouvelles preuves que les FTI ont des effets b\u00e9n\u00e9fiques gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 la farn\u00e9sylation de la prog\u00e9rine\u201d open_toggle_background_color=\u201d#f7f7f7\u2033 closed_toggle_text_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d closed_toggle_background_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d open_icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d admin_label=\u201dF\u00e9vrier 2010 : De nouvelles preuves que les FTI ont des effets b\u00e9n\u00e9fiques gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 la farn\u00e9sylation de la prog\u00e9rine\u201d _builder_version=\u201d4.16\u2033 title_text_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 background_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d custom_margin=\u201d10px||10px||true\u201d custom_padding=\u201d|50px||50px||true\u201d animation_style=\u201ddiapositive\u201d animation_direction=\u201dhaut\u201d animation_intensity_slide=\u201d25%\u201d link_option_url_new_window=\u201don\u201d z_index_tablet=\u201d500\u2033 border_width_all=\u201d0px\u201d global_colors_info=\u201d{}\u201d]<\/p>\n<div id=\"1488059409784-71ca0fef-3046\" class=\"vc_tta-panel vc_active\" data-vc-content=\".vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<p>Les auteurs ont \u00e9valu\u00e9 la possibilit\u00e9 que l&#039;am\u00e9lioration de la maladie prog\u00e9ro\u00efde par un inhibiteur de la farn\u00e9syltransf\u00e9rase (FTI) dans un mod\u00e8le murin de Progeria soit due \u00e0 l&#039;effet du m\u00e9dicament sur la farn\u00e9sylation de prot\u00e9ines autres que la prog\u00e9rine. Ils ont construit une souris qui produisait de la prog\u00e9rine non farn\u00e9syl\u00e9e, mais pas de la prog\u00e9rine farn\u00e9syl\u00e9e. Cette souris a \u00e9galement d\u00e9velopp\u00e9 des ph\u00e9notypes de maladie de type prog\u00e9ro\u00efde, mais le FTI ne les a pas am\u00e9lior\u00e9s. Ce r\u00e9sultat indique que le m\u00e9dicament n&#039;agit pas en inhibant des prot\u00e9ines autres que la prog\u00e9rine ; il doit agir sur la farn\u00e9sylation de la prog\u00e9rine, l&#039;\u00e9tape biochimique qui n&#039;est pas pr\u00e9sente dans le mod\u00e8le test\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yang SH, Chang SY, Andres DA, Spielmann HP, Young SG, Fong LG. \u00ab \u00c9valuation de l\u2019efficacit\u00e9 des inhibiteurs de la prot\u00e9ine farn\u00e9syltransf\u00e9rase dans des mod\u00e8les murins de prog\u00e9ria. \u00bb<em><br \/>J Lipid Res.<\/em>\u00a02010 f\u00e9vr.;51(2):400-5. Epub 2009 oct. 26.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=\u201dOctobre 2009 : Les Arts Rencontrent les Sciences dans l\u2019Histoire de Benjamin Button\u201d open_toggle_background_color=\u201d#f7f7f7\u2033 closed_toggle_text_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d closed_toggle_background_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d open_icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d admin_label=\u201dOctobre 2009 : Les Arts Rencontrent les Sciences dans l\u2019Histoire de Benjamin Button\u201d _builder_version=\u201d4.16\u2033 title_text_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 background_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d custom_margin=\u201d10px||10px||true\u201d custom_padding=\u201d|50px||50px||true\u201d animation_style=\u201ddiapositive\u201d animation_direction=\u201dhaut\u201d animation_intensity_slide=\u201d25%\u201d link_option_url_new_window=\u201don\u201d z_index_tablet=\u201d500\u2033 border_width_all=\u201d0px\u201d global_colors_info=\u201d{}\u201d]<\/p>\n<div id=\"1488059409784-71ca0fef-3046\" class=\"vc_tta-panel vc_active\" data-vc-content=\".vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<p class=\"vc_tta-panel-title vc_tta-controls-icon-position-left\" data-fontsize=\"19\" data-lineheight=\"24\">En 1921, F. Scott Fitzgerald a publi\u00e9 une nouvelle intitul\u00e9e \u00ab L&#039;\u00c9trange histoire de Benjamin Button \u00bb, qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 adapt\u00e9e au cin\u00e9ma en 2008 avec Brad Pitt dans le r\u00f4le principal. Le personnage principal de l&#039;\u0153uvre fictive de Fitzgerald est n\u00e9 avec une maladie tr\u00e8s rare dans laquelle il ressemble \u00e0 une personne \u00e2g\u00e9e. La principale diff\u00e9rence entre l&#039;individu fictif et les individus atteints du syndrome de HGPS est que le personnage de Fitzgerald rajeunit au fil des ans. Cet article pr\u00e9sente scientifiquement la possibilit\u00e9 que Fitzgerald ait consciemment bas\u00e9 son personnage, Benjamin Button, sur des individus atteints du syndrome de HGPS, et que les individus atteints du syndrome de HGPS puissent non seulement avoir l&#039;apparence d&#039;une personne \u00e2g\u00e9e, mais aussi subir un v\u00e9ritable vieillissement physique, ce qui permettrait aux chercheurs d&#039;obtenir des informations pr\u00e9cieuses sur le traitement des maladies g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement associ\u00e9es au processus naturel de vieillissement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p><strong>Maloney WJ, \u00ab Le syndrome de Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria : sa pr\u00e9sentation dans la nouvelle de F. Scott Fitzgerald \u00ab L&#039;\u00e9trange cas de Benjamin Button \u00bb et ses manifestations orales. \u00bb<br \/><em>J. Dent. Res<\/em>\u00a02009 octobre 88 (10) : 873-6<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=\u201dMai 2009 : Un article innove sur l\u2019effet du HGPS sur les fonctions cellulaires.\u201d open_toggle_background_color=\u201d#f7f7f7\u2033 closed_toggle_text_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d closed_toggle_background_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d open_icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d admin_label=\u201dMai 2009 : Un article innove sur l\u2019effet du HGPS sur les fonctions cellulaires.\u201d _builder_version=\u201d4.16\u2033 title_text_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 background_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d custom_margin=\u201d10px||10px||true\u201d custom_padding=\u201d|50px||50px||true\u201d animation_style=\u201ddiapositive\u201d animation_direction=\u201dhaut\u201d animation_intensity_slide=\u201d25%\u201d link_option_url_new_window=\u201don\u201d z_index_tablet=\u201d500\u2033 border_width_all=\u201d0px\u201d global_colors_info=\u201d{}\u201d]<\/p>\n<div id=\"1488059409784-71ca0fef-3046\" class=\"vc_tta-panel vc_active\" data-vc-content=\".vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p>Il a d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9montr\u00e9 que le HGPS affecte de nombreuses fonctions cellulaires fondamentales, notamment la r\u00e9plication, l\u2019expression g\u00e9n\u00e9tique et la r\u00e9paration de l\u2019ADN. Busch et ses coll\u00e8gues ont ajout\u00e9 \u00e0 cette liste le transport des prot\u00e9ines du cytoplasme vers le noyau. Toutes les prot\u00e9ines sont synth\u00e9tis\u00e9es dans le cytoplasme, et celles qui finissent par se retrouver dans le noyau doivent traverser la membrane nucl\u00e9aire. Le transport s\u2019effectue par des canaux dans la membrane nucl\u00e9aire appel\u00e9s \u00ab pores nucl\u00e9aires \u00bb. De nombreuses prot\u00e9ines sont trop grosses pour simplement se diffuser \u00e0 travers les pores nucl\u00e9aires, mais sont \u00ab introduites \u00bb \u00e0 travers eux par des prot\u00e9ines sp\u00e9ciales qui ont \u00e9volu\u00e9 \u00e0 cette fin. Dans cet article, il a \u00e9t\u00e9 constat\u00e9 que les cellules qui expriment le g\u00e8ne mutant responsable du HGPS pr\u00e9sentaient un transport r\u00e9duit de prot\u00e9ines dans les noyaux par mesure directe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Busch A, Kiel T, Heupel WM, Wehnert M, Huebner S., \u00ab L\u2019importation de prot\u00e9ines nucl\u00e9aires est r\u00e9duite dans les cellules exprimant des mutants de lamine A responsables d\u2019une enveloppopathie nucl\u00e9aire. \u00bb\u00a0<em>Exp Cell Res.\u00a0<\/em>11 mai 2009.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=\u201dAvril 2009 : Lien entre la prog\u00e9ria et le vieillissement normal : de nouvelles perspectives\u201d open_toggle_background_color=\u201d#f7f7f7\u2033 closed_toggle_text_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d closed_toggle_background_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d open_icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d admin_label=\u201dAvril 2009 : Lien entre la prog\u00e9ria et le vieillissement normal : de nouvelles perspectives\u201d _builder_version=\u201d4.16\u2033 title_text_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 background_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d custom_margin=\u201d10px||10px||true\u201d custom_padding=\u201d|50px||50px||true\u201d animation_style=\u201ddiapositive\u201d animation_direction=\u201dhaut\u201d animation_intensity_slide=\u201d25%\u201d link_option_url_new_window=\u201don\u201d z_index_tablet=\u201d500\u2033 border_width_all=\u201d0px\u201d global_colors_info=\u201d{}\u201d]<\/p>\n<div id=\"1488059409784-71ca0fef-3046\" class=\"vc_tta-panel vc_active\" data-vc-content=\".vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<p class=\"vc_tta-panel-title vc_tta-controls-icon-position-left\" data-fontsize=\"19\" data-lineheight=\"24\">Cet article est une revue tr\u00e8s r\u00e9fl\u00e9chie et \u00e0 jour qui int\u00e9ressera les chercheurs travaillant sur les maladies prog\u00e9ro\u00efdes (en mettant l&#039;accent sur le HGPS) et leur relation avec le vieillissement normal. Il aborde \u00e9galement la relation entre le vieillissement et le cancer. Les sujets abord\u00e9s sont\u00a0:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p>\u2192 Fournir structure et organisation : architecture nucl\u00e9aire et int\u00e9grit\u00e9 du g\u00e9nome<br \/>\u2192 Les dommages et la r\u00e9paration de l&#039;ADN ont mal tourn\u00e9<br \/>\u2192 Les suppresseurs de tumeurs anciens et au-del\u00e0 de la r\u00e9paration et de la s\u00e9nescence cellulaire, et<br \/>\u2192 R\u00e9g\u00e9n\u00e9ration et renouvellement : la biologie des cellules souches. R\u00e9g\u00e9n\u00e9ration et renouvellement : la biologie des cellules souches.<\/p>\n<p>L\u2019article met en \u00e9vidence la mani\u00e8re dont les avanc\u00e9es r\u00e9centes dans l\u2019\u00e9tude des maladies prog\u00e9ro\u00efdes donnent un aper\u00e7u des fonctions cellulaires de base ainsi que du vieillissement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Capell BS, Tlougan BE, Orlow SJ, \u00ab Du plus rare au plus courant : aper\u00e7u des syndromes prog\u00e9ro\u00efdes sur le cancer de la peau et le vieillissement. \u00bb\u00a0<em>Journal de dermatologie d&#039;investigation<\/em>\u00a0(23 avril 2009), 1-11<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=\u201dAvril 2009 : D\u2019anciens boursiers de recherche du PRF \u00e9laborent une nouvelle m\u00e9thode pour \u00e9tudier la prog\u00e9rine dans les cellules\u201d open_toggle_background_color=\u201d#f7f7f7\u2033 closed_toggle_text_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d closed_toggle_background_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d open_icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d admin_label=\u201dAvril 2009 : D\u2019anciens boursiers de recherche du PRF \u00e9laborent une nouvelle m\u00e9thode pour \u00e9tudier la prog\u00e9rine dans les cellules\u201d _builder_version=\u201d4.16\u2033 title_text_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 background_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d custom_margin=\u201d10px||10px||true\u201d custom_padding=\u201d|50px||50px||true\u201d animation_style=\u201ddiapositive\u201d animation_direction=\u201dhaut\u201d animation_intensity_slide=\u201d25%\u201d link_option_url_new_window=\u201don\u201d z_index_tablet=\u201d500\u2033 border_width_all=\u201d0px\u201d global_colors_info=\u201d{}\u201d]<\/p>\n<div id=\"1488059409784-71ca0fef-3046\" class=\"vc_tta-panel vc_active\" data-vc-content=\".vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<p align=\"left\">Des exp\u00e9riences ant\u00e9rieures sur des cellules fibroblastes de patients atteints de Progeria ont montr\u00e9 que les dommages caus\u00e9s par la mutation sont initialement le r\u00e9sultat de l&#039;action de la forme alt\u00e9r\u00e9e de la Lamine A, appel\u00e9e Prog\u00e9rine. Mais l&#039;interpr\u00e9tation de ces exp\u00e9riences peut \u00eatre difficile en culture sur un nombre variable de g\u00e9n\u00e9rations. Fong et al. ont mis au point un syst\u00e8me exp\u00e9rimental dans lequel la quantit\u00e9 de Prog\u00e9rine dans\u00a0<em>Type sauvage<\/em>\u00a0Les cellules prog\u00e9rines peuvent \u00eatre augment\u00e9es ou diminu\u00e9es. Cette m\u00e9thode permettra aux chercheurs de distinguer les effets directs de la prog\u00e9rine des effets secondaires, faisant ainsi progresser l&#039;\u00e9tude des m\u00e9canismes cellulaires qui conduisent \u00e0 la physiopathologie des cellules prog\u00e9rines.<\/p>\n<p>Activation de la synth\u00e8se de la prog\u00e9rine, la pr\u00e9lamine A mutante dans le syndrome de prog\u00e9ria de Hutchinson-Gilford, avec des oligonucl\u00e9otides antisens. (Article PubMed) \u00a0\u00a0<strong>Fong LG, Vickers TA, Farber EA, Choi C, Yun UJ, Hu Y, Yang SH, Coffinier C, Lee R, Yin L, Davies BS, Andres DA, Spielmann HP, Bennett CF, Young SG, \u00ab Activation de la synth\u00e8se de la prog\u00e9rine, la pr\u00e9lamine A mutante dans le syndrome de prog\u00e9ria de Hutchinson-Gilford, avec des oligonucl\u00e9otides antisens. \u00bb\u00a0<em>Hum Mol Genet.<\/em>\u00a017 avril 2009.<\/strong><br \/>Les Drs Fong et Young ont d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e9t\u00e9 financ\u00e9s par des subventions de la Progeria Research Foundation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=\u201dJanvier 2009 : Quantification de l\u2019expression du g\u00e8ne de la Progeria dans les cellules normales et prog\u00e9ria par une nouvelle technique puissante.\u201d open_toggle_background_color=\u201d#f7f7f7\u2033 closed_toggle_text_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d closed_toggle_background_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d open_icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d admin_label=\u201dJanvier 2009 : Quantification de l\u2019expression du g\u00e8ne de la Progeria dans les cellules normales et prog\u00e9ria par une nouvelle technique puissante.\u201d _builder_version=\u201d4.16\u2033 title_text_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 background_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d custom_margin=\u201d10px||10px||true\u201d custom_padding=\u201d|50px||50px||true\u201d animation_style=\u201ddiapositive\u201d animation_direction=\u201dhaut\u201d animation_intensity_slide=\u201d25%\u201d link_option_url_new_window=\u201don\u201d z_index_tablet=\u201d500\u2033 border_width_all=\u201d0px\u201d saved_tabs=\u201dtous\u201d global_colors_info=\u201d{}\u201d]<\/p>\n<div id=\"1488059409784-71ca0fef-3046\" class=\"vc_tta-panel vc_active\" data-vc-content=\".vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p data-fontsize=\"34\" data-lineheight=\"48\"><strong>Une \u00e9quipe su\u00e9doise d\u00e9couvre une accumulation d&#039;ARN prog\u00e9rine dans les cellules normales \u00e0 mesure qu&#039;elles vieillissent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>La prog\u00e9rine est la prot\u00e9ine anormale responsable de la prog\u00e9ria. Au cours des derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es, plusieurs groupes de recherche ont d\u00e9couvert que les cellules normales produisent \u00e9galement de la prog\u00e9rine, mais beaucoup moins que les cellules d&#039;un enfant atteint de prog\u00e9ria. De plus, la quantit\u00e9 de prot\u00e9ine prog\u00e9rine dans les cellules normales augmente avec l&#039;\u00e2ge en laboratoire. Ces r\u00e9sultats ont \u00e9tabli un lien direct au niveau cellulaire entre la prog\u00e9ria et le vieillissement normal.<\/p>\n<p>Le Dr Maria Eriksson, auteur de la d\u00e9couverte du g\u00e8ne de la prog\u00e9ria en 2003, a invent\u00e9 une nouvelle technique puissante pour mesurer quantitativement l&#039;expression du g\u00e8ne de la prog\u00e9ria. Le laboratoire du Dr Eriksson \u00e0 l&#039;Institut Karolinska en Su\u00e8de a utilis\u00e9 cette technique pour mesurer la quantit\u00e9 d&#039;ARN prog\u00e9rine dans les cellules normales et les cellules prog\u00e9ria. L&#039;ARN est la mol\u00e9cule de r\u00e9f\u00e9rence de nos cellules pour la fabrication des prot\u00e9ines. Le groupe su\u00e9dois a d\u00e9couvert que les cellules normales et les cellules prog\u00e9ria produisent des quantit\u00e9s de plus en plus importantes d&#039;ARN prog\u00e9rine \u00e0 mesure qu&#039;elles vieillissent. Les r\u00e9sultats d&#039;Eriksson montrent que le signal ARN pour la production de prog\u00e9rine se d\u00e9veloppe rapidement dans les cellules des enfants atteints de prog\u00e9ria et se d\u00e9veloppe lentement au cours de la vie chez nous tous.<\/p>\n<p>Ces nouvelles d\u00e9couvertes renforcent notre compr\u00e9hension du lien entre le vieillissement normal et la prog\u00e9ria. De plus, la nouvelle technique devrait \u00eatre largement utilis\u00e9e dans les exp\u00e9riences visant \u00e0 \u00e9tudier le m\u00e9canisme d\u2019action de la prog\u00e9rine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rodriguez S, Copped\u00e8 F, Sagelius H et Erikson M. \u00ab Expression accrue du transcrit de la lamine A tronqu\u00e9e du syndrome de prog\u00e9ria de Hutchinson-Gilford au cours du vieillissement cellulaire \u00bb.\u00a0<em>Journal europ\u00e9en de g\u00e9n\u00e9tique humaine<\/em>\u00a0(2009), 1-10.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=\u201dAo\u00fbt et octobre 2008 : la prog\u00e9ria est-elle r\u00e9versible ? Deux publications r\u00e9centes montrent que les FTI et la th\u00e9rapie g\u00e9nique pourraient y parvenir !\u201d open_toggle_background_color=\u201d#f7f7f7\u2033 closed_toggle_text_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d closed_toggle_background_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d open_icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d admin_label=\u201dAo\u00fbt et octobre 2008 : la prog\u00e9ria est-elle r\u00e9versible ? Deux publications r\u00e9centes montrent que les FTI et la th\u00e9rapie g\u00e9nique pourraient y parvenir !\u201d _builder_version=\u201d4.16\u2033 title_text_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 background_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d custom_margin=\u201d10px||10px||true\u201d custom_padding=\u201d|50px||50px||true\u201d animation_style=\u201ddiapositive\u201d animation_direction=\u201dhaut\u201d animation_intensity_slide=\u201d25%\u201d link_option_url_new_window=\u201don\u201d z_index_tablet=\u201d500\u2033 border_width_all=\u201d0px\u201d saved_tabs=\u201dtous\u201d global_colors_info=\u201d{}\u201d]<\/p>\n<div id=\"1488059409784-71ca0fef-3046\" class=\"vc_tta-panel vc_active\" data-vc-content=\".vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\">\n<p>Deux \u00e9tudes distinctes montrent que la prog\u00e9ria est r\u00e9versible dans le syst\u00e8me cardiovasculaire et la peau de mod\u00e8les de souris. Les exp\u00e9riences ont \u00e9t\u00e9 significatives dans la mesure o\u00f9 les souris n&#039;ont pas \u00e9t\u00e9 trait\u00e9es avant qu&#039;elles n&#039;expriment les sympt\u00f4mes de la prog\u00e9ria, alors que la plupart des \u00e9tudes pr\u00e9c\u00e9dentes ont commenc\u00e9 le traitement avant que la prog\u00e9ria ne soit apparente. La production de prog\u00e9rine (la prot\u00e9ine nocive produite \u00e0 partir du g\u00e8ne de la prog\u00e9ria) a \u00e9t\u00e9 inhib\u00e9e soit par traitement avec un inhibiteur de la farn\u00e9syltransf\u00e9rase (FTI) soit par d\u00e9sactivation du g\u00e8ne. Dans les deux cas, les souris sont revenues \u00e0 des conditions normales ou presque normales. Ces observations fournissent des preuves encourageantes pour l&#039;essai clinique actuel sur les FTI pour la prog\u00e9ria.<\/p>\n<p>Dans une d\u00e9monstration \u00e9tonnante des progr\u00e8s r\u00e9alis\u00e9s avec le m\u00e9dicament FTI, d\u00e9sormais utilis\u00e9 dans le\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/fr\/clinical-trials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Premier essai clinique d&#039;un m\u00e9dicament contre la prog\u00e9ria<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 L\u2019\u00e9quipe de recherche du Dr Francis Collins aux National Institutes of Health* a d\u00e9couvert que les FTI pr\u00e9venaient et m\u00eame inversaient l\u2019effet le plus d\u00e9vastateur de la prog\u00e9ria chez les souris : les maladies cardiovasculaires.* \u00ab Nous avons \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9tonn\u00e9s de voir que [le m\u00e9dicament] fonctionnait si bien \u00bb, d\u00e9clare Francis Collins, g\u00e9n\u00e9ticien et ancien directeur du National Human Genome Research Institute, qui \u00e9tait l\u2019auteur principal de l\u2019\u00e9quipe de recherche qui a identifi\u00e9 la mutation du g\u00e8ne de la prog\u00e9ria en 2003. \u00ab Non seulement ce m\u00e9dicament a emp\u00each\u00e9 ces souris de d\u00e9velopper une maladie cardiovasculaire, mais il a invers\u00e9 les dommages chez les souris qui \u00e9taient d\u00e9j\u00e0 atteintes de la maladie. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Les souris atteintes de Progeria d\u00e9veloppent une maladie cardiaque qui ressemble \u00e0 celle des enfants atteints de Progeria. Les auteurs ont d\u00e9couvert que le FTI \u00e9tait \u00e0 la fois capable de pr\u00e9venir le d\u00e9veloppement de maladies cardiaques dans une certaine mesure lorsque les souris \u00e9taient trait\u00e9es d\u00e8s leur sevrage, et d\u2019inverser partiellement la maladie \u00e9tablie lorsque les souris \u00e9taient trait\u00e9es \u00e0 partir de l\u2019\u00e2ge de 9 mois. \u00ab L\u2019une des choses les plus frappantes de mon point de vue \u00e9tait la capacit\u00e9 \u00e0 inverser la maladie \u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 Collins, ce qui est essentiel \u00e9tant donn\u00e9 que la Progeria n\u2019est g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement pas diagnostiqu\u00e9e \u00e0 la naissance, mais seulement lorsque les enfants commencent \u00e0 pr\u00e9senter des sympt\u00f4mes, alors qu\u2019une partie des dommages a d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e9t\u00e9 faite.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab Si ces m\u00e9dicaments s\u2019av\u00e8rent avoir des effets similaires chez les enfants, cela pourrait constituer une avanc\u00e9e majeure dans le traitement de cette maladie d\u00e9vastatrice \u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 le Dr Nabel du NHLBI, co-auteur de l\u2019\u00e9tude. \u00ab De plus, ces r\u00e9sultats mettent en lumi\u00e8re le r\u00f4le potentiel des m\u00e9dicaments FTI dans le traitement d\u2019autres formes de maladie coronarienne. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Voir l&#039;article en\u00a0<em>Scientifique am\u00e9ricain<\/em>\u00ab\u00a0Un nouvel espoir pour la prog\u00e9ria\u00a0: un m\u00e9dicament pour une maladie rare li\u00e9e au vieillissement\u00a0\u00bb, \u00e0\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?id=new-hope-for-progeria-drug-for-rare-aging-disease\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?id=new-hope-for-progeria-drug-for-rare-aging-disease\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?id=new-hope-for-progeria-drug-for-rare-aging-disease<\/a>\u00a0et le communiqu\u00e9 de presse du NIH \u00e0\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.nih.gov\/news\/health\/oct2008\/nhgri-06.htm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nih.gov\/news\/health\/oct2008\/nhgri-06.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.nih.gov\/news\/health\/oct2008\/nhgri-06.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>*\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genome.gov\/Pages\/Research\/DIR\/100608PNAS_Progeria.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Capell et al.,<\/a>\u00a0\u00ab Un inhibiteur de la farn\u00e9syltransf\u00e9rase pr\u00e9vient \u00e0 la fois l\u2019apparition et la progression tardive des maladies cardiovasculaires dans un mod\u00e8le murin de Progeria. \u00bb<em>\u00a0Actes de l&#039;Acad\u00e9mie nationale des sciences,\u00a0<\/em>Vol. 105, no. 41, 15902-15907 (14 octobre 2008)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dans une deuxi\u00e8me \u00e9tude publi\u00e9e en ligne dans le Journal of Medical Genetics**, l&#039;\u00e9quipe de recherche du Dr Maria Eriksson au Karolinska Institutet en Su\u00e8de a cr\u00e9\u00e9 un autre mod\u00e8le murin de prog\u00e9ria pr\u00e9sentant des anomalies de la peau et des dents. Les souris ont \u00e9t\u00e9 g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9es de mani\u00e8re \u00e0 ce que la mutation de la prog\u00e9ria puisse \u00eatre d\u00e9sactiv\u00e9e \u00e0 tout moment. Une fois la maladie apparue, le g\u00e8ne de la prog\u00e9ria \u00e9tait d\u00e9sactiv\u00e9. Au bout de 13 semaines, la peau \u00e9tait presque impossible \u00e0 distinguer de la peau normale. Cette \u00e9tude montre que dans ces tissus, l&#039;expression de la mutation de la prog\u00e9ria ne provoque pas de dommages irr\u00e9versibles et que l&#039;inversion de la maladie est possible, ce qui est prometteur pour le traitement de la prog\u00e9ria.<\/p>\n<p><strong>**Eriksson, et. al., \u00ab Ph\u00e9notype r\u00e9versible dans un mod\u00e8le murin du syndrome de Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria. \u00bb\u00a0<em>J. Med. Genet.<\/em>\u00a0publi\u00e9 en ligne le 15 ao\u00fbt 2008 ; doi:10.1136\/jmg.2008.060772<\/strong><br \/>Pour acheter cet article, rendez-vous sur :\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jmg.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2008\/08\/15\/jmg.2008.060772.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/jmg.bmj.com\/cgi\/rapidpdf\/jmg.2008.060772v1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>De nouvelles preuves du lien entre la prog\u00e9ria, le vieillissement normal et les maladies cardiaques<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ces \u00e9tudes passionnantes de Capell et Eriksson montrent qu\u2019au-del\u00e0 de la prog\u00e9ria, ces r\u00e9sultats pourraient b\u00e9n\u00e9ficier \u00e0 tous les patients atteints de maladies cardiovasculaires. Les chercheurs ont d\u00e9couvert que la prot\u00e9ine toxique responsable de la prog\u00e9ria est en fait produite \u00e0 de faibles niveaux chez tous les humains, et qu\u2019elle s\u2019accumule peut-\u00eatre avec l\u2019\u00e2ge. Ainsi, en \u00e9tudiant ces enfants rares, nous pouvons approfondir notre compr\u00e9hension d\u2019un m\u00e9canisme majeur du vieillissement humain et peut-\u00eatre trouver de nouvelles fa\u00e7ons de ralentir le processus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=\u201dPrintemps 2007 : Faits marquants de l\u2019atelier scientifique 2007 de la Progeria Research Foundation : Progr\u00e8s dans la science translationnelle\u201d open_toggle_background_color=\u201d#f7f7f7\u2033 closed_toggle_text_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d closed_toggle_background_color=\u201d#00b2e2\u2033 icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d open_icon_color=\u201d#ffc15e\u201d admin_label=\u201dPrintemps 2007 : Faits marquants de l\u2019atelier scientifique 2007 de la Progeria Research Foundation : Progr\u00e8s dans la science translationnelle\u201d 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\/>We\u2019ve added this section so you can easily access information on the latest, and the most significant\u00a0scientific publications on Progeria research.\r\n\r\nIn addition to the articles highlighted below, there are now hundreds of articles on Progeria and Progeria-related subjects. We suggest you search PubMed to find the specific topic(s) you are looking for.[\/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion active_section=\"0\" collapsible_all=\"true\"][vc_tta_section title=\"April 2018: Global Study Published in JAMA Finds Treatment with Lonafarnib Extends Survival in Children with Progeria\" tab_id=\"1524612578130-3d8792f7-1a2c\"][vc_column_text]A new study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reports that lonafarnib, a farnesyltransferase inhibitor (FTI), helped extend survival in children with Progeria. The study showed that treatment with lonafarnib alone compared with no treatment was associated with a significantly lower mortality rate (3.7% vs. 33.3%) after a median of 2.2 years of follow up.<strong> This is the first evidence that lonafarnib alone can improve survival for this fatal disease.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/first-ever-demonstrate-survival-benefit-in-progeria\/\"><strong>Click Here<\/strong> for more details.<\/a>\r\n\r\nAssociation of Lonafarnib Treatment vs No Treatment With Mortality Rate in Patients With Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome, Leslie B. Gordon, MD, PhD; Heather Shappell, PhD; Joe Massaro, PhD; Ralph B. D\u2019Agostino Sr., PhD; Joan Brazier, MS; Susan E. Campbell, MA; Monica E. Kleinman, MD; Mark W. Kieran, MD, PhD; <em>JAMA,<\/em> April 24, 2018.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"July 2016: Triple Trial Results\" tab_id=\"1488058981371-c6262aa3-8f62\"][vc_column_text]<a href=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/results-of-triple-drug-trial-for-progeria-published\/\">July 2016: Triple Trial Results<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"October 2014: PRF\u2019s remarkable journey published in Expert Opinion\" tab_id=\"1493768350502-9ca89a59-bfba\"][vc_column_text]In an article published in <em>Expert Opinion<\/em> and authored by Executive Director Audrey Gordon and Medical Director Leslie Gordon, the two PRF leaders discuss PRF's history, goals and accomplishments, and how the PRF programs have been pivotal in the journey from obscurity to treatment.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/assets\/files\/pdf\/Expert-Opinion-Article-by-LGordon-and-AGordon.pdf\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/assets\/images\/iconPDF.gif\" width=\"34\" height=\"20\" \/>*\"The Progeria Research Foundation: its remarkable journey from obscurity to treatment\" October 30, 2014<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1488059126298{background-color: #d3e9ff !important;}\"]<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-756\" src=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Figure-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"247\" \/>The authors write, \"It is our hope that the description of the PRF programs and services that follows, along with an account of how they are helping PRF accomplish its mission to save children with Progeria, will assist and inspire others to take similar action for the many rare disease populations that need immediate attention.\"[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"May 2014: Study Finds Trial Medications Increase Estimated Lifespan in Children With Progeria\" tab_id=\"1488058981456-e77b0de3-9e08\"][vc_column_text]This study demonstrates there is evidence that a farnesyltransferase inhibitor (FTI) can extend the lives of children with Progeria by at least one-and-a-half years. The study showed an extension of mean survival of 1.6 years during the six years following initiation of treatment. Two additional drugs added later in the trials, pravastatin and zoledronate, may also contribute to this finding. <strong>This is the first evidence of treatments influencing survival for this fatal disease.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/first-ever-progeria-treatment.html\">Click here<\/a> for more details.\r\n\r\nImpact of Farnesylation Inhibitors on Survival in Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome, Leslie B. Gordon, MD, PhD, Joe Massaro, PhD, Ralph B. D\u2019Agostino Sr., PhD, Susan E. Campbell, MA, Joan Brazier, MS, W. Ted Brown, MD, PhD, Monica E Kleinman, MD, Mark W. Kieran MD, PhD and the Progeria Clinical Trials Collaborative; <em>Circulation<\/em>, May 2, 2014 (on-line).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"September 2012: First-ever Progeria Treatment for Progeria Discovered \" tab_id=\"1488059360019-2bf0f2cd-dddd\"][vc_column_text]The results of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/clinical_trial.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the first-ever clinical drug trial for children<\/a>\u00a0with Progeria reveal that\u00a0Lonafarnib, a type of farnesyltransferase inhibitor (FTI) originally developed to treat cancer, has proven effective for Progeria. Every child showing improvement in one or more of four ways: gaining additional weight, better hearing, improved bone structure and\/or, most importantly, increased flexibility of blood vessels. The study* was\u00a0funded and coordinated by The Progeria Research Foundation.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/first-ever-progeria-treatment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0for more details.\r\n\r\n<strong>*Gordon LB<\/strong>, Kleinman ME, Miller DT, Neuberg D, Giobbie-Hurder A, Gerhard-Herman M, Smoot L, Gordon CM, Cleveland R, Snyder BD, Fligor B, Bishop WR, Statkevich P, Regen A, Sonis A, Riley S, Ploski C, Correia A, Quinn N, Ullrich NJ, Nazarian A, Liang MG, Huh SY, Schwartzman A, Kieran MW, Clinical Trial of a Farnesyltransferase Inhibitor in Children with Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/cgi\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.1202529109\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong>October 9, 2012\u00a0vol. 109\u00a0no. 41\u00a016666-16671[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"October 2011: A Novel Approach to Progeria Therapy\" tab_id=\"1488059409784-71ca0fef-3046\"][vc_column_text]Spanish and French scientists under the leadership of Carlos L\u00f3pez-Otin (Oviedo) and Nicolas L\u00e9vy (Marseille) have published an exciting study that may result in a new approach to treating Progeria (1). While drugs used in PRF's clinical trials to date have targeted changes made in the abnormal lamin A protein (progerin) that is made in Progeria cells, \u00a0in the new work, the aberrant \"splicing\" of the lamin A messenger RNA (mRNA) coding for the lamin A protein is blocked, resulting in lowering the production of progerin. \u00a0 The blocking agent used is a small modified RNA molecule whose sequence is complementary to the region of the Progeria mRNA at which the splicing occurs. \u00a0This molecule binds to the splice site and prevents the binding there of the complex of protein and RNA molecules required for splicing (the \"spliceosome\").\r\n\r\nThat aberrant splicing in cultured skin cells of Progeria can be prevented in this manner was shown in \u00a02005 (2). \u00a0However, for treatment of patients the inhibiting reagent must be delivered intact to all tissues of the patient. \u00a0it took another six years, and work in several laboratories, to develop these \"delivery\" methods.\r\n\r\nIn the new research (1), blocking the aberrant splicing in the model mouse resulted in impressive results. There were clear reductions in progerin concentrations in all tissues analyzed except skeletal muscle, which may have a reduced uptake of the blocking agent. \u00a0The model mice recapitulated many of the phenotypes of Progeria patients, including\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Severely shortened life span (103 days compared to 2 years for wild-type mice.)<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Reduction of growth rate.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Abnormal posture with curvature of the spine.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Profound nuclear aberrations as a result of progerin accumulation.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>General loss of the fat layer under the skin.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Profound bone alterations.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Cardiovascular alterations, including significant loss of vascular smooth muscle cells.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Alterations in the concentrations of various hormones in circulating blood plasma, including insulin and growth hormone.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nThe <strong>in vivo <\/strong>demonstration of the efficacy of reducing progerin production by blocking the aberrant splicing is a strong candidate for a valuable new approach to Progeria therapy.\r\n\r\n(1) Osorio FG, Navarro CL, Cadi\u00f1anos J, L\u00f3pez-Mejia IC, Quir\u00f3s PM, et al, Science Translational Medicine, <strong>3:\u00a0<\/strong>Issue 106, advance on-line publication,\u00a0October 26 (2011).\r\n\r\n(2) Scaffidi, P. and Misteli, T. Reversal of the , cellular phenotype in the premature aging disease Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, Nature Medicine <strong>11<\/strong> (4): 440-445 (2005).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"June 2011: PRF-funded study Identifies Rapamycin as Possible Treatment for Progeria\" tab_id=\"1488059460261-c11561ba-9652\"][vc_column_text]Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA published a new study today in <em>Science, Translational Medicine<\/em> that may lead to a new drug treatment for children with Progeria.*\r\n\r\n<em>Rapamycin<\/em> is an FDA approved drug that has previously been shown to extend the lives of non-progeria mouse models. This new study demonstrates that rapamycin decreases the amount of the disease-causing protein progerin by 50%, improves the abnormal nuclear shape, and extends the lifespan of progeria cells. This study provides the first evidence that rapamycin may be able to decrease <img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/assets\/images\/medical_images\/Cao-with-caption.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"169\" \/>progerin's damaging effects in children with progeria.\r\n\r\nThere is tremendous media coverage on this! Click below for links to media stories:\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/health\/2011\/06\/29\/a-new-drug-for-rare-fatal-childhood-disease\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wall Street Journal Health Blog<\/a><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/health.usnews.com\/health-news\/family-health\/boomer-health\/articles\/2011\/06\/29\/organ-transplant-drug-might-treat-rapid-aging-disease-in-kids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">US News and World Report<\/a><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2014\/05\/unorthodox-study-claims-drug-prolongs-lives-children-premature-aging-disease\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Science Magazine<\/a><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.com\/lifestyle\/health\/articles\/2011\/06\/30\/childrens_hospital_plans_trial_of_drug_for_aging_disorder\/?p1=News_links\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boston Globe<\/a><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/HEALTH\/07\/01\/progeria.treatment.aging.collins\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN<\/a>\r\n<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe Progeria Research Foundation was delighted to provide cells for this project from the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/cell_tissue_bank\/\">PRF Cell & Tissue Bank<\/a><\/strong>, and help fund the research through our <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/grants_funded.html\">grants program<\/a>.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThis exciting new study demonstrates the remarkable pace of progeria research, while providing further insight into the aging process that affects us all.\r\n\r\n<strong>*\"Rapamycin Reverses Cellular Phenotypes and Enhances Mutant Protein Clearance in Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Cells\"\r\nKan Cao, John J. Graziotto, Cecilia D. Blair, Joseph R. Mazzulli, Michael R. Erdos, Dimitri Krainc, Francis S. Collins<\/strong>\r\n<strong>Sci Transl Med. 2011 Jun 29;3(89):89ra58.<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"June 2011: Groundbreaking Study on Progeria-Aging Link\" tab_id=\"1488059910211-e2a7e676-f108\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2011\/06\/13\/eveningnews\/main20070910.shtml?tag=broadcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CBS Evening News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/health\/2011\/06\/13\/rare-disease-of-progeria-offers-clues-to-normal-aging\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/healthy-aging\/news\/20110613\/scientists-find-new-clues-to-aging\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Others<\/a> Report on New Study<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"yiv314624100msonormal\">National Institutes of Health researchers have discovered a previously unknown link between Progeria and aging.\u00a0 The findings provide insights about the relationship between the toxic, Progeria-causing protein known as <strong>progerin <\/strong>and <strong>telomeres<\/strong>, which protect the ends of DNA within cells until they wear away over time and the cells die.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"yiv314624100msonormal\">The study* appears in the June 13, 2011 early online edition of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. It concludes that in normal aging, short or dysfunctional telomeres stimulate cells to produce progerin, which is associated with age-related cell damage.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><img src=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/assets\/images\/medical_images\/panel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"159\" \/>\r\nProgerin-expressing cells from normal individuals show signs of senescence.\r\nDNA in the nucleus is stained blue. Telomeres are seen as red dots.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<p class=\"yiv314624100msonormal\">\"<strong>For the first time, we know that telomere shortening and dysfunction influences the production of progerin,\" says The Progeria Research Foundation Medical Director Leslie B. Gordon, MD, PhD. \"Thus these two processes, both of which influence cellular aging, are actually linked.\"<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"yiv314624100msonormal\">Prior research has shown that progerin is not only produced in children with Progeria, but that it is produced in smaller amounts in all of us, and progerin levels increase with aging. Independently, previous research on telomere shortening and dysfunction has been associated with normal aging. Since 2003, with the discovery of the Progeria gene mutation and the progerin protein that causes the disease, one of the key areas of research has focused on understanding whether and how Progeria and aging are linked.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"yiv314624100msonormal\">\"Connecting this rare disease phenomenon and normal aging is bearing fruit in an important way,\" said NIH Director Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, a senior author of the paper. \"This study highlights that valuable biological insights are gained by studying rare genetic disorders such as Progeria. Our sense from the start was that Progeria had a lot to teach us about the normal aging process. \"<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"yiv314624100msoplaintext\">Scientists have traditionally studied telomeres and progerin separately. While there is still much to learn about whether this new connection can lead to a cure for children with Progeria or potentially be applied to extending the human lifespan, this study provides further evidence that progerin, the toxic protein discovered through finding the gene mutation in Progeria, plays a role in the normal aging process.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"yiv314624100msoplaintext justifyleft\"><strong>*<em>Progerin and telomere dysfunction collaborate to trigger cellular senescence in normal human fibroblasts<\/em>, Cao et al, <em>J Clin Invest <\/em>doi:10.1172\/JCI43578.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"yiv314624100msoplaintext\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/assets\/files\/pdf\/psa_ads\/NIH%20Press%20Release.pdf\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/assets\/images\/iconPDF.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"34\" height=\"20\" \/>Click here<\/a> for the full text of the NIH press release.<\/p>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"May 2011: Cause of Progeroid Syndrome Discovered, Providing Further Insight into Progeria\u2019s Link to Aging\" tab_id=\"1488059951718-2c9d5e3a-5878\"][vc_column_text]A newly discovered gene mutation associated with a Progeria-like disease could open the door for possible new treatments for premature aging disorders and could provide fresh insight into normal aging.\r\n\r\nA research team led by Progeria researcher<strong> Dr. Carlos L\u00f3pez-Ot\u00edn<\/strong> from the University of Oviedo in Spain encountered two families whose children have a previously unknown accelerated aging disease similar to Progeria. The children showed no defects in any genes that had previously been linked to progeroid diseases, but by studying the \"coding\" portions of their genomes, the team found a defect in a gene called BANF1. Family members with the progeroid disease had very low amounts of the protein made by BANF1, and, like people with Progeria, the nuclear envelopes in their cells were markedly abnormal. The abnormalities went away in cell culture experiments when the defective gene was replaced with the correct version. The findings were published in the <em>American Journal of Human Genetics <\/em>in May 2011.\r\n\r\nBANF1 now joins the group of known genes that appear to influence some forms of premature aging\u2014and that might affect normal aging as well.\r\n\r\nIn the past few years, scientists have been able to better understand normal aging on a molecular level thanks in part to studies of premature aging syndromes like this one as well as Progeria, which \"cause the early development of characteristics normally associated with advanced age,\" said L\u00f3pez-Ot\u00edn. He added that his study \"underscores the importance of the nuclear lamina for human aging and demonstrates the utility of the new methods of genome sequencing to identify the genetic cause of rare and devastating diseases, which have traditionally received limited attention.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>Xose S. Puente, Victor Quesada, Fernando G. Osorio, Rub\u00e9n Cabanillas, Juan Cadi\u00f1anos, Julia M. Fraile, Gonzalo R. Ord\u00f3\u00f1ez, Diana A. Puente, Ana Guti\u00e9rrez-Fern\u00e1ndez, Miriam Fanjul-Fern\u00e1ndez et al. \"Exome Sequencing and Functional Analysis Identifies BANF1 Mutation as the Cause of a Hereditary Progeroid Syndrome.\"<em> American Journal of Human Genetics, May 5, 2011 DOI: 10.1016\/j.ajhg.2011.04.010<\/em><\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"August 2010: Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 Improves Symptoms, Extends Life in a Progeroid Mouse\" tab_id=\"1488060004892-959f0a03-4f13\"][vc_column_text]In recent years, the factors that regulate longevity have been extensively studied.\u00a0 Signaling between growth hormone(GH) and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) has been identified as a major regulator in animals ranging from worms to man.\u00a0 (This signaling system is often referred to as the<strong> <em>somatotrophic axis<\/em><\/strong>.)\u00a0 In this article, Dr. Carlos L\u00f3pez-Otin\u00a0 and his colleagues at the University of Oviedo (Spain), studied whether, and how, changes in these hormones play a role in premature aging in a progeric mouse model<em>, Zmpste 24<sup>-\/-.<\/sup><\/em>. IGF-1 hormone levels decreased and growth hormone levels increased when the mice aged. Growth hormone is known to be the major regulator of IGF-1.\u00a0 These hormone changes did not happen in the normal mice, which tells us that the changes are a consequence of disease in the progeroid mice. <strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>The investigators treated the progeroid mice with IGF-1 and found substantial recovery from progeroid phenotypes<\/strong>, including \u00a0weight gain, increased amount of subcutaneous fat, reduced kyphosis\u00a0 (curvature of the spine) and alopecia (baldness), <strong>and increased lifespan<\/strong>, with a 17% extension of the median life span (from 123 days to 145 days) and a 24% increase in the maximum lifespan (from 151 days to 187 days).\r\n\r\nThese findings highlight that levels of the hormones insulin-like growth factor 1 and growth hormone are important in controlling longevity in this mouse model of Progeria.\u00a0 Unlike this mouse, children with Progeria have normal levels of IGF-1 and growth hormone.\u00a0 Given the links between Progeria and aging, this study may lead to additional approaches to therapy of HGPS, as the mechanisms by which these hormones affect longevity are discovered.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed?term=%2522Mari%25C3%25B1o%20G%2522%255BAuthor%255D\">Mari\u00f1o G<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed?term=%2522Ugalde%20AP%2522%255BAuthor%255D\">Ugalde AP<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed?term=%2522Fern%25C3%25A1ndez%20AF%2522%255BAuthor%255D\">Fern\u00e1ndez AF<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed?term=%2522Osorio%20FG%2522%255BAuthor%255D\">Osorio FG<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed?term=%2522Fueyo%20A%2522%255BAuthor%255D\">Fueyo A<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed?term=%2522Freije%20JM%2522%255BAuthor%255D\">Freije JM<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed?term=%2522L%25C3%25B3pez-Ot%25C3%25ADn%20C%2522%255BAuthor%255D\">L\u00f3pez-Ot\u00edn C<\/a>. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2010\/08\/24\/1002696107.abstract\">Insulin-like growth factor 1 treatment extends longevity in a mouse model of human premature aging by restoring somatotroph axis function.<\/a>\u201d<em> Proc Natl Acad Sci <\/em><em>U S A<\/em>. 2010 Aug 30.<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"August 2010: landmark study, led by PRF\u2019s Medical Director, demonstrates the Progeria-causing protein Progerin increases in everyone as we age, suggesting a possible new risk factor for heart disease.\" tab_id=\"1488060041123-b5aee525-a768\"][vc_column_text]On August 26, 2010, <em>Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology<\/em> electronically published, ahead of print, the results of a study comparing Progeria and typical cardiovascular aging, entitled \"Cardiovascular Pathology in Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria: Correlation With the Vascular Pathology of Aging\". The study found that progerin, the abnormal protein that causes Progeria, is also present in the vasculature of the general population and increases with age, adding to the growing case that there are parallels between normal aging and progeria aging.\r\n\r\nResearchers examined cardiovascular autopsies and progerin distribution in patients with Progeria along with a group without Progeria between the ages of one month and 97 years, and found that progerin in individuals without Progeria increased an average of 3.3 percent per year in the coronary arteries.\r\n\r\n\"We found similarities between many aspects of cardiovascular disease in both Progeria and the atherosclerosis that affects millions of people throughout the world\" said Dr. Leslie Gordon, senior author of the study and The Progeria Research Foundation's Medical Director. \"By examining one of the rarest diseases in the world, we are gaining crucial insight into a disease that affects millions of people worldwide. Ongoing research has the potential to have a significant impact on our understanding of heart disease and aging.\"\r\n\r\nThis study supports the possibility that progerin is a contributor to the risk of atherosclerosis in the general population, and merits examination as a potential new trait to help predict heart-disease risk.\r\n\r\n<strong>Olive M, Harten I, Mitchell R, Beers J, Djabali K, Cao K, Erdos MR, Blair C, Funke B, Smoot L, Gerhard-Herman M, Machan JT, Kutys R, Virmani R, Collins FS, Wight TN, Nabel EG, Gordon LB.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/20798379\">\r\n\u201cCardiovascular Pathology in Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria: Correlation With the Vascular Pathology of Aging\u201d<\/a>. <\/strong><strong><em>Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol.<\/em><\/strong><strong> 2010 <\/strong><strong>Nov;30(11):2301-9; Epub 2010 Aug 26.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/assets\/files\/Cardiovascular%20Press%20Release%209%207%2010.doc\">Click here<\/a> for the full press release.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"May 2010: Oxford studies show how Progeria research can further our understanding of normal aging\" tab_id=\"1488060087252-d5c16d4a-e7b1\"][vc_column_text]In this article, Catherine Shanahan and her group at Oxford University have made a major advance in elucidating a key step in the aging of human blood vessels (vascular aging.)\u00a0 The experiments derive directly from work on Progeria, performed in\u00a0 a number of laboratories.\u00a0 The Shanahan group's two key findings are: (1) prelamin A accumulates in vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) of aged individuals but not of young individuals,\u00a0and (2) this accumulation results, at least in part, from depletion of the enzyme FACE1. \u00a0FACE1(also called Zmpte24)\u00a0is required for the removal of the farnesyl group in prelamin A, during processing to normal lamin A, a critical component of the cell nucleus.\r\n\r\nThis situation is very similar to that in Progeria. \u00a0There, \u00a0prelamin A (called progerin) \u00a0retains the farnesyl group. Indeed, the initial step in causing the disease is the failure to remove the farnesyl group. This failure happens because the Progeria mutation results in deletion of the part of prelamin A needed for FACE 1 to bind and remove\u00a0the farnesyl group. \u00a0Thus, the cause of the defects in aging and Progeria are the same: FACE1 can not do its job.\r\n\r\nIt has been known for some years that farnesyl transferase inhibitors (FTIs) inhibit (and can reverse) the presence of nuclear markers of disease in Progeria cells. \u00a0Now, Shanahan et al\u00a0\u00a0have found that FTIs inhibit the appearance of similar nuclear markers in cells from aged normal individuals.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 FTIs are currently in use in Progeria clinical trials and \u00a0Shanahan et al note that, these clinical trials \u201cwill shed further light on the therapeutic potential of these drugs in the treatment of aging.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe studies described in this article are the best example to date of how studies of Progeria are furthering our understanding of normal aging.\r\n\r\n<strong>Ragnauth CD, Warren DT, Liu Y,\u00a0 Shanahan CM et al, \u00a0\u201cPrelamin A Acts to Accelerate Smooth Muscle Cell Senescence and is a Novel biomarker of Human Vascular Aging.\u201d Circulation: May 25, 2010, pp. 2200-2210.<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"April 2010: Further evidence that in Progeria, the presence of a farnesyl group in the progerin molecule is responsible for the disease symptoms.\" tab_id=\"1488060122599-b1009191-c547\"][vc_column_text]In our February posting of \"What's New in Progeria Research\" we reported evidence that a farnesyl transferase inhibitor (FTI) acts to relieve disease symptoms by the farnesylation of progerin, and not by inhibiting proteins other than progerin. The UCLA group headed by former PRF research grantees Stephen Young and Loren Fong has now reported results with another severe progeroid laminopathy that support this conclusion. In Restrictive Dermatopathy (RD), the prelamin A remains farnesylated, as is the case for progerin in Progeria patients, RD prelamin A does not have the 50 amino acid deletion of progerin, but it has retained the terminal 15 amino acids at the carboxyl end of prelamin A, which is cleaved off in progerin.\r\n\r\nDavies and coworkers prepared a new model mouse whose prelamin A, unlike RD prelamin A, is not farnesylated, but does retain the 15 amino acid sequence that is normally cleaved in the path to synthesize lamin A. This mouse does not have progeroid symptoms, indicating that in RD, as well as in Progeria, the presence of the farnesyl group, and not a change in amino acid sequence, is responsible for the disease symptoms.\r\n\r\n<strong>DaviesBS, Barnes RH 2nd, Tu Y, Ren S, Andres DA, Spielmann HP, Lammerding J, Wang Y, Young SG, Fong LG,\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/20421363\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"An accumulation of nonfarnesylated prelamin A causes cardiomyopathy but not progeria\"<\/a>,<\/strong><strong><em> Hum Mol Genet.<\/em> 2010 Apr 26. [Epub ahead of print]<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"February 2010: More Evidence FTIs provide beneficial effects through Farnesylation of Progerin\" tab_id=\"1488060195664-0837e082-5685\"][vc_column_text]<img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-755\" src=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/beaker3-80x80.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" \/>The authors evaluated the possibility that the ameliation of progeroid disease by a farnesyltransferase inhibitor (FTI) in a mouse model of Progeria is due to the effect of the drug on farnesylation of protein(s) other than progerin. They constructed a mouse that made unfarnesylated progerin, but not farnesylated progerin. This mouse also developed progeria-like disease phenotypes, but FTI did not ameliorate them. This result indicates that the drug does not act by inhibiting proteins other than progerin; it must be acting on the farnesylation of progerin, the biochemical step that is not present in the tested model.\r\n\r\n<strong>Yang SH, Chang SY, Andres DA, Spielmann HP, Young SG, Fong LG. \u201cAssessing the efficacy of protein farnesyltransferase inhibitors in mouse models of progeria.\u201d<em>\r\nJ Lipid Res.<\/em> 2010 Feb;51(2):400-5. Epub 2009 Oct 26.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"October 2009: The Arts Meet the Sciences in Benjamin Button Story\" tab_id=\"1488060248740-e5107dad-a832\"][vc_column_text]In 1921, F. Scott Fitzgerald published a short story entitled 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', which was made into a movie in 2008 starring Brad Pitt. The main character of Fitzgerald's fictional work is born with a very rare condition in which he looks like an elderly person. The main difference between the fictional individual and individuals with HGPS is that Fitzgerald's character becomes younger as the years go by. This paper scientifically presents the possibility that Fitzgerald consciously based his character, Benjamin Button, upon individuals with HGPS, and that HGPS individuals might not only have the appearance of an aged person, but also might actually undergo true physical aging, which would enable researchers to gain valuable information into the treatment of ailments commonly associated with the natural process of aging.\r\n\r\n<strong>Maloney WJ, \u201cHutchinson-Gilford Progeria syndrome: its presentation in F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story 'the curious case of Benjamin Button' and its oral manifestations.\u201d\r\n<em>J. Dent. Res<\/em> 2009 Oct 88 (10): 873-6<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"May 2009: Article breaks new ground on HGPS affect on cellular functions.\" tab_id=\"1488060305616-f7ddab04-e153\"][vc_column_text]HGPS has previously been shown to affect many fundamental cellular functions including replication, gene expression, and DNA repair. Busch and coworkers have added the transport of proteins from the cytoplasm into the nucleus to this list. All proteins are synthesized in the cytoplasm, and those that end up being in the nucleus have to get across the nuclear membrane. The transport is accomplished through channels in the nuclear membrane called \"nuclear pores\". Many proteins are too large to simply diffuse through the nuclear pores, but are \"ushered\" through them by special proteins that have evolved for this purpose. In this article, cells that express the mutant gene responsible for HGPS were found to have reduced transport of proteins into nuclei by direct measurement.\r\n\r\n<strong>Busch A, Kiel T, Heupel WM, Wehnert M, Huebner S., \u201cNuclear protein import is reduced in cells expressing nuclear envelopathy-causing lamin A mutants.\u201d <em>Exp Cell Res. <\/em>2009 May 11.<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"April 2009: Linking Progeria and Normal Aging: Novel Insights\" tab_id=\"1488060339733-4d9fffe3-f69a\"][vc_column_text]This article is a very thoughtful and up-to-date review which will be of interest to investigators working on progeroid diseases (with emphasis on HGPS) and their relation to normal aging, It also touches on the relation of aging to cancer. Topics covered are:\r\n\r\n\u2192 Providing structure and organization: nuclear architecture and genome integrity\r\n\u2192 DNA damage and repair gone awry\r\n\u2192 Old and beyond repair tumor suppressors and cellular senescence, and\r\n\u2192 Regeneration and renewal: stem-cell biology. Regeneration and renewal: stem-cell biology.\r\n\r\nThe article highlights the ways in which recent advances in the study of progeroid diseases is giving insight into basic cellular functions as well as aging.\r\n\r\n<strong>Capell BS, Tlougan BE, Orlow SJ, \u201cFrom the Rarest to the Most Common: Insights from Progeroid Syndromes into Skin Cancer and Aging.\u201d <em>Journal of Investigative Dermatology<\/em> (2009 Apr 23), 1-11<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"April 2009: Past PRF Research Grantees Devise new Method to Study Progerin in Cells\" tab_id=\"1488060375828-93823f04-8a7e\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<p align=\"left\">Previous experiments with Fibroblast cells from Progeria patients have shown that the damage caused by the mutation is initially the result of action by the altered form of Lamin A, called Progerin. But the interpretation of these experiments can be difficult in culture for varying numbers of generations. Fong et. al. have set up an experimental system in which the amount of Progerin in <em>Wild-type<\/em> cells can be increased or decreased. This method will allow investigators to sort out the direct effects of Progerin from secondary ones, thereby advancing the study of cellular mechanisms that lead to the pathophysiology of Progeria cells.<\/p>\r\nActivating the synthesis of progerin, the mutant prelamin A in Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, with antisense oligonucleotides. (PubMed Article) \u00a0 <strong>Fong LG, Vickers TA, Farber EA, Choi C, Yun UJ, Hu Y, Yang SH, Coffinier C, Lee R, Yin L, Davies BS, Andres DA, Spielmann HP, Bennett CF, Young SG , \u201cActivating the synthesis of progerin, the mutant prelamin A in Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, with antisense oligonucleotides.\u201d <em>Hum Mol Genet.<\/em> 2009 Apr 17.<\/strong>\r\nDrs. Fong and Young have previously been funded with grants from The Progeria Research Foundation.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"January 2009: Quantification of Progeria Gene Expression in Normal and Progeria Cells By a New, Powerful Technique.\" tab_id=\"1488060413325-5a710a63-b8c6\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h1>Swedish Team Finds a Build-up of Progerin RNA in Normal Cells as They Age<\/h1>\r\nProgerin is the abnormal protein causing Progeria. In recent years, several research groups have found that normal cells also produce progerin, but much less than the cells of a child with Progeria. Moreover, the amount of progerin protein in normal cells increases as they age in the laboratory. These results established a direct link at the cellular level between Progeria and normal aging.\r\n\r\nDr. Maria Eriksson, author of the gene finding for Progeria in 2003, has now invented a new, powerful technique to quantitatively measure the expression of the Progeria gene. Dr. Eriksson's laboratory at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden used the technique to measure the amount of progerin RNA in both normal and Progeria cells. RNA is the blueprint molecule in our cells for making protein. The Swedish group found that both normal and Progeria cells make larger and larger amounts of progerin RNA as they age. Eriksson's result shows that the RNA signal for making progerin quickly builds in the cells of children with Progeria, and builds slowly over a lifetime in us all.\r\n\r\nThese new findings strengthen our understanding of the connection between normal aging and Progeria. In addition, the new technique is expected to be widely used in experiments that address the mechanism of progerin action.\r\n\r\n<strong>Rodriguez S, Copped\u00e8 F, Sagelius H and Erikson M. \"Increased expression of the Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome truncated lamin A transcript during cell aging\u201d. <em>European Journal of Human Genetics<\/em> (2009), 1-10.<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"August and October 2008: Is Progeria Reversible? Two recent publications show that FTIs and gene therapy may do just that!\" tab_id=\"1488060455158-98aa6026-d293\"][vc_column_text]<strong>August and October 2008:<\/strong> Two separate studies show that Progeria is reversible in the cardiovascular system and the skin of mouse models. The experiments were significant in not treating the mice until they expressed Progeria symptoms, whereas most previous studies began treatment before Progeria was apparent.\u00a0Production of progerin (the damaging protein made from the Progeria gene) was inhibited either by treatment with a farnesyl transferase inhibitor (FTI) or by turning off the gene. In both cases the mice reverted to normal or almost normal conditions.\u00a0These observations provide encouraging evidence for the current clinical trial of FTIs for Progeria.\r\n\r\nIn a stunning display of progress with the FTI drug \u2013 now being used in the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/clinical-trials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First-ever Progeria Clinical Drug Trial<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Dr. Francis Collins\u2019 research team at the National Institutes of Health * found that FTI\u2019s\u00a0prevented and even reversed the most devastating effect of Progeria in mice: cardiovascular disease.* \"We were amazed that [the drug] worked so well,\" says Francis Collins, a geneticist and former director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, who was senior author for the research team that identified the Progeria gene mutation in 2003. \u201cNot only did this drug prevent these mice from developing cardiovascular disease, it reversed damage in mice that already had disease.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe Progeria mice develop heart disease that mirrors that of children with Progeria. The authors found that the FTI was both able to prevent the development of heart disease to some degree when mice were treating from the time they were weaned, and partially reverse established disease when mice were treated beginning at age 9 months. \u201cOne of the striking things from my perspective was the ability to reverse disease, \u201d Collins said, which is critical given that Progeria is generally not diagnosed at birth, but only when children begin to show symptoms, when part of the damage already has been done.\r\n\r\n\"If these drugs are found to have similar effects in children, this could mark a major breakthrough for treating this devastating disease,\" said NHLBI\u2019s Dr. Nabel, who was a co-author of the study. \"In addition, these findings shed light on the potential role of FTI drugs to treat other forms of coronary artery disease.\"\r\n\r\nView the article in <em>Scientific American<\/em>, \u201cNew Hope for Progeria: Drug for Rare Aging Disease\u201d, at <a title=\"https:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?id=new-hope-for-progeria-drug-for-rare-aging-disease\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?id=new-hope-for-progeria-drug-for-rare-aging-disease\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?id=new-hope-for-progeria-drug-for-rare-aging-disease<\/a> and the NIH press release at <a title=\"https:\/\/www.nih.gov\/news\/health\/oct2008\/nhgri-06.htm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nih.gov\/news\/health\/oct2008\/nhgri-06.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.nih.gov\/news\/health\/oct2008\/nhgri-06.htm<\/a>\r\n\r\n<strong><em>* <\/em><\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genome.gov\/Pages\/Research\/DIR\/100608PNAS_Progeria.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Capell, et. al,<\/a> \u201cA farnesyltransferase inhibitor prevents both the onset and late progression of cardiovascular disease in a Progeria mouse model.\u201d<em> Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, <\/em>Vol. 105, no. 41, 15902-15907 (Oct. 14, 2008)<\/strong>\r\n\r\nIn a second study that was published online in the Journal of Medical Genetics**, Dr. Maria Eriksson\u2019s research team at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden created another mouse model of Progeria with abnormalities of the skin and teeth. \u00a0The mice are genetically engineered so that the Progeria mutation can be shut off at any time.\u00a0Once disease was apparent, the gene for Progeria was turned off.\u00a0After 13 weeks the skin was almost indistinguishable from normal skin. This study shows that in these tissues the expression of the Progeria mutation does not cause irreversible damage and that the reversal of disease is possible, which gives promise for treatment for Progeria.\r\n\r\n<strong>**Eriksson, et. al., \u201cReversible phenotype in a mouse model of Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria syndrome.\u201d <em>J. Med. Genet.<\/em> published online 15 Aug 2008; doi:10.1136\/jmg.2008.060772<\/strong>\r\nTo purchase this article, go to: <a href=\"https:\/\/jmg.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2008\/08\/15\/jmg.2008.060772.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/jmg.bmj.com\/cgi\/rapidpdf\/jmg.2008.060772v1<\/a>\r\n\r\n<strong>More Evidence of the Link between Progeria and Normal Aging and Heart Disease<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThese exciting Capell and Eriksson studies show that beyond Progeria, these results have the potential to benefit all patients with cardiovascular disease. Researchers have discovered that the toxic protein responsible for Progeria is actually produced at low levels in all humans, possibly accumulating as we age. Thus, by studying these rare children, we can further our understanding of a major mechanism of human aging\u2014and perhaps, find new ways to slow the process.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<strong>Here are some past headlines on Progeria research milestones that have helped advance the field at a fantastic pace:<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>2007:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/2007_international_progeria_workshop_featured_in_journal_of_gerontology.html\">\r\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/biomedgerontology\/article\/63\/8\/777\/567351\/Highlights-of-the-2007-Progeria-Research?searchresult=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2007 International Progeria Workshop Featured in Journal of Gerontology\u00a0 <\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/biomedgerontology\/article\/63\/8\/777\/567351\/Highlights-of-the-2007-Progeria-Research?searchresult=1\">PRF-Funded Studies Provide Support for Drug Trial<\/a>\r\n\r\n<strong>2006:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/progeria-101faq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\r\nResearch Suggests Link Between Progeria and Normal Aging<\/a>\r\n\r\n<strong>2005:\r\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/web-beta.archive.org\/web\/20170216041810\/https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/blocking_protein.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Exciting News on Potential Drug Treatments\r\nBlocking Protein May Prove Useful in Treating Progeria\r\nReversal of the cellular phenotype in the premature aging disease HGPS\r\n<\/a>\r\n<strong>2004:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/web-beta.archive.org\/web\/20170215204807\/https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/gene_mutation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\r\nGene Mutation Causes Progressive Changes to Cell Structure in Children with Progeria<\/a>\r\n\r\n<strong>2003:\r\n<\/strong><a 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