Please feel free forward to your colleagues and share the news of our journal | REVIEW ARTICLES Molecular Mechanisms of Skeletal Muscle Hypertrophy – Open Access Schiaffino, Stefano | Reggiani, Carlo | Akimoto, Takayuki | Blaauw, Bert Current View of Diagnosing Small Fiber Neuropathy – Open Access Raasing, Lisette R.M. | Vogels, Oscar J.M. | Veltkamp, Marcel | van Swol, Christiaan F.P. | Grutters, Jan C. RESEARCH ARTICLES Safety Monitoring of Gene Therapy for Spinal Muscular Atrophy with Onasemnogene Abeparvovec – A Single Centre Experience – Open Access Friese, Johannes | Geitmann, Stephanie | Holzwarth, Dorothea | Müller, Nicole | Sassen, Robert | Baur, Ute | Adler, Kristin | Kirschner, Janbernd Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 1 Treated with Nusinersen de Holanda Mendonça, Rodrigo | Jorge Polido, Graziela | Ciro Jr, Matsui | Jorge Fontoura Solla, Davi | Conti Reed, Umbertina | Zanoteli, Edmar Results from a 3-year Non-interventional, Observational Disease Monitoring Program in Adults with GNE Myopathy – Open Access Lochmüller, Hanns | Behin, Anthony | Tournev, Ivailo | Tarnopolsky, Mark | Horváth, Rita | Pogoryelova, Oksana | Shah, Jinay | Koutsoukos, Tony | Skrinar, Alison | et al. A Multidisciplinary Evaluation of Patients with DMD in An Italian Tertiary Care Center LoMauro, A. | Gandossini, S. | Russo, A. | Velardo, D. | Comi, G.P. | Turconi, A.C. | Bresolin, N. | Aliverti, A. | D’Angelo, M.G. Iranian Registry of Duchenne and Becker Muscular Dystrophies: Characterization and Preliminary Data Bayat, Farhad | Sarmiento, Isis G. | Ahmadian, Negar | Dehghani, Zahra Elucidation of the Genetic Cause in Dutch Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy Families: A 27-Year’s Journey ten Dam, L. | de Visser, M. | Ginjaar, Ieke B. | van Duyvenvoorde, Hermine A. | van Koningsbruggen, Silvana | van der Kooi, Anneke J. Intrafamilial Phenotypic Variability of Collagen VI-Related Myopathy Due to a New Mutation in the COL6A1 Gene – Open Access Bardakov, Sergey N. | Deev, Roman V. | Magomedova, Raisat M. | Umakhanova, Zoya R. | Allamand, Valérie | Gartioux, Corine | Zulfugarov, Kamil Z. | Akhmedova, Patimat G. | Tsargush, Vadim A. | et al. Clinical Experience with Eculizumab in Treatment-Refractory Acetylcholine Receptor Antibody-Positive Generalized Myasthenia Gravis – Open Access Katyal, Nakul | Narula, Naureen | Govindarajan, Raghav Cerebrospinal Fluid Protein Level and Mechanical Ventilation in Guillain-Barré Syndrome patients Davalos, Long | Nowacek, Dustin | Elsheikh, Bakri | Reynolds, Evan L. | Maher Stino, Amro Transcutaneous Carbon Dioxide Measurement in Adult Patients with Neuromuscular Disorders: A quality Level Assessment Al-Hasan, Abrar | Khalil, Omar | Yim, Dobin BRIEF REPORT Jitter Remains Stable Throughout a Single Fiber EMG Session in Healthy and Myasthenic Muscless Anagnostou, Evangelos | Dimopoulou, Panagiota | Zouvelou, Vasiliki | Karandreas, Nikolaos | Zambelis, Thomas MEETING REPORTS Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy Females with Dystrophinopathy Conference, Orlando, FL, USA, June 26–27, 2019 Apkon, Susan | Kinnett, Kathi | Cripe, Linda | Duan, Dongsheng | Jackson, Jamie L. | Kornegay, Joe N. | Mah, May Ling | Nelson, Stanley F. | Rao, Vamshi | et al. Report on the 5th Ottawa International Conference on Neuromuscular Disease & Biology, Ottawa, Canada, October 17–19, 2019 Warman-Chardon, Jodi | Jasmin, Bernard J. | Kothary, Rashmi | Parks, Robin J. | A special issue of JND is planned entitled "Terence Partridge: A Distinguished Career Dedicated to Muscle Research" An upcoming JND special issue will celebrate the distinguished career of Prof. Terence Partridge in the field of myogenesis and skeletal muscle diseases. It will aim to highlight the significant contributions Prof. Terry Partridge has made to the field of muscle biology both through his own discoveries over half a century and the exceptional trainees that he has produced over this period. Submissions will be a tribute to his contributions and will help lead the way towards future growth in this field. If you have been affiliated with Prof. Partridge and would like to participate in this special issue, then we invite you to contribute a primary research article to this special edition. Anyone interested in submitting should first get in touch to outline the submission topic so the editors can assess whether the paper will fit the scope of the journal. Submission deadline: 31 March 2021 Contact: Jyoti Jaiswal or Kanneboyina Nagaraju (details available via the link below) | TREAT-NMD News On February 26, 2021, TREAT-NMD released a statement relating to COVID-19 vaccinations along with links to information about vaccine safety and effectiveness. James Dowling, Chair, released the statement on behalf of the TREAT NMD Executive Committee, and an extract is included here: | "Our neuromuscular community has felt this impact in many ways, including concern for worsening of disease course and respiratory status with infection. Vaccines against COVID-19 are now being adopted and distributed in many countries. With vaccination comes great hope for protection against the virus and a gradual return to “normalcy”. We therefore encourage and recommend all individuals who are able to access the vaccine to do so, as data shows it is safe and effective." For full details of the statement, visit the TNMD website. | ENMC News The European Neuromuscular Centre (ENMC) was founded in 1992 by a group of European patient associations to bring leading researchers and clinicians from all over the world. It has for many years run an Early-Career Programme and, building on that success, we are now pleased to announce the launch of a new initiative: the Mid-Career Mentoring Programme. This new programme is conceived to support and prepare talented and committed neuromuscular specialists for transdisciplinary, cooperative leadership, thereby promoting innovation and progress of future neuromuscular research. These individuals will be at the stage in their careers where they are developing their own research plans and are establishing their own teams and collaborative networks. Scope of the mentoring programme is to empower these mid-career professionals and prepare them for independent leadership, most importantly increasing their chances of reaching high positions where they have the possibility to open up tenure-track perspectives for the next generations. With the two programmes in place, ENMC provides learning support to the entire spectrum of rising stars in the neuromuscular field, from PhD students to research group/clinical unit heads. For more details, visit the ENMC website. | Most Read JND Articles in February 2021 Listing articles published only in 2020 and 2021 so you can read the most popular recent content Molecular Mechanisms of Skeletal Muscle Hypertrophy – Open Access (Review Article in Vol.8, Iss.2, 2021) Schiaffino, Stefano | Reggiani, Carlo | Akimoto, Takayuki | Blaauw, Bert Current Therapeutic Approaches in FSHD – Open Access (Review Article in pre-press, 2019) Wang, Leo H. | Tawil, Rabi Current View of Diagnosing Small Fiber Neuropathy – Open Access (Review Article in Vol.8, Iss.2, 2021) Raasing, Lisette R.M. | Vogels, Oscar J.M. | Veltkamp, Marcel | van Swol, Christiaan F.P. | Grutters, Jan C. Advances in Treatment of Spinal Muscular Atrophy – New Phenotypes, New Challenges, New Implications for Care – Open Access (Review Article in Vol.7, Iss.1, 2020) Schorling, David C. | Pechmann, Astrid | Kirschner, Janbernd Mechanisms and Clinical Applications of Glucocorticoid Steroids in Muscular Dystrophy – Open Access (Review Article in Vol.8, Iss.1, 2021) Quattrocelli, Mattia | Zelikovich, Aaron S. | Salamone, Isabella M. | Fischer, Julie A. | McNally, Elizabeth M. Beyond the Traditional Clinical Trials for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and The Future Impact of Gene Therapy – Open Access (Review Article in Vol.8, Iss.1, 2021) Cappella, Marisa | Pradat, Pierre-François | Querin, Giorgia | Biferi, Maria Grazia | Sign Ups & Social Media Help Spread the News of JND! If you know of any colleagues or fellow researchers who are not yet signed up to receive the newsletter, we invite you to share this mailing with them. Click on the sign-up link at the bottom of this email or access here. 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