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Christopher Spurney

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Children's National Health System
Verified email at childrensnational.org
Cited by 4197

Effective rescue of dystrophin improves cardiac function in dystrophin-deficient mice by a modified morpholino oligomer

…, J Jiang, J Li, J Li, CF Spurney… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Antisense oligonucleotide-mediated exon skipping is able to correct out-of-frame mutations
in Duchenne muscular dystrophy and restore truncated yet functional dystrophins. However, …

Contemporary cardiac issues in Duchenne muscular dystrophy

…, JA Rafael-Fortney, SV Raman, CF Spurney… - Circulation, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
Muscular Dystrophy, convened a Working Group meeting on July 2014, in Bethesda, MD, to
explore clinical and research questions related to cardiac disease in patients with DMD. As …

Cardiomyopathy of Duchenne muscular dystrophy: current understanding and future directions

CF Spurney - Muscle & nerve, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common and severe form of muscular
dystrophy and occurs in 1 in 3500 male births. Improved survival due to improvements in clinical …

Demographics, trends, and outcomes in pediatric acute myocarditis in the United States, 2006 to 2011

…, MC Spaeder, W Pastor, CF Spurney… - … Quality and Outcomes, 2012 - Am Heart Assoc
Background— There is a lack of clear diagnostic and management guidelines for acute
myocarditis in the pediatric population. We used a multi-institutional database to characterize …

Preclinical drug trials in the mdx mouse: Assessment of reliable and sensitive outcome measures

CF Spurney, H Gordish‐Dressman… - Muscle & Nerve …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The availability of animal models for Duchenne muscular dystrophy has led to extensive
preclinical research on potential therapeutics. Few studies have focused on reliability and …

Dystrophin-deficient cardiomyopathy in mouse: expression of Nox4 and Lox are associated with fibrosis and altered functional parameters in the heart

CF Spurney, S Knoblach, EE Pistilli, K Nagaraju… - Neuromuscular …, 2008 - Elsevier
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD; dystrophin-deficiency) causes dilated cardiomyopathy
in the second decade of life in affected males. We studied the dystrophin-deficient mouse …

[HTML][HTML] Melanocyte-like cells in the heart and pulmonary veins contribute to atrial arrhythmia triggers

…, J Jochems, F Liu, CF Spurney… - The Journal of …, 2009 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Atrial fibrillation is the most common clinical cardiac arrhythmia. It is often initiated by ectopic
beats arising from the pulmonary veins and atrium, but the source and mechanism of these …

Losartan decreases cardiac muscle fibrosis and improves cardiac function in dystrophin-deficient mdx mice

CF Spurney, A Sali, AD Guerron… - Journal of …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent studies showed that chronic administration of losartan, an angiotensin II type I receptor
antagonist, improved skeletal muscle function in dystrophin-deficient mdx mice. In this …

Use of a hand-carried ultrasound device by critical care physicians for the diagnosis of pericardial effusions, decreased cardiac function, and left ventricular …

CF Spurney, CA Sable, JT Berger, GR Martin - Journal of the American …, 2005 - Elsevier
Prompt diagnosis of children with suggested cardiac disease in the acute care setting is critical
for initiation of life-saving therapy. We hypothesized that pediatric critical care physicians …

Glutamate receptors in the postmortem striatum of schizophrenic, suicide, and control brains

JT Noga, TM Hyde, MM Herman, CF Spurney… - Synapse, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
… did not reach statistical significance in the caudate (F 1.8, P .17) or nucleus accumbens (F
and suicides compared with normals at a trend level of significance in the putamen (F