Benzinga | Mar 23, 2021 06:26AM EDT

Ionis Pharmaceuticals Awarded U.S. Patent #10,954,519 'Compounds and methods for modulation of dystrophia myotonica-protein kinase (DMPK) expression'

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Provided herein are methods, compounds, and compositions for reducing expression of a DMPK mRNA and protein in an animal. Also provided herein are methods, compounds, and compositions for preferentially reducing CUGexp DMPK RNA, reducing myotonia or reducing spliceopathy in an animal. Such methods, compounds, and compositions are useful to treat, prevent, delay, or ameliorate type 1 myotonic dystrophy, or a symptom thereof.