The future of cystic fibrosis care: a global perspective

SC Bell, MA Mall, H Gutierrez, M Macek… - The Lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Executive summary The past six decades have seen remarkable improvements in health
outcomes for people with cystic fibrosis, which was once a fatal disease of infants and young …

CFTR modulators: the changing face of cystic fibrosis in the era of precision medicine

M Lopes-Pacheco - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a lethal inherited disease caused by mutations in the CF
transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene, which result in impairment of CFTR …

Lumacaftor–Ivacaftor in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis Homozygous for Phe508del CFTR

CE Wainwright, JS Elborn, BW Ramsey… - … England Journal of …, 2015 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Cystic fibrosis is a life-limiting disease that is caused by defective or deficient
cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) protein activity. Phe508del is …

Cystic fibrosis genetics: from molecular understanding to clinical application

GR Cutting - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2015 - nature.com
The availability of the human genome sequence and tools for interrogating individual
genomes provide an unprecedented opportunity to apply genetics to medicine. Mendelian …

A functional CFTR assay using primary cystic fibrosis intestinal organoids

JF Dekkers, CL Wiegerinck, HR De Jonge… - Nature medicine, 2013 - nature.com
We recently established conditions allowing for long-term expansion of epithelial organoids
from intestine, recapitulating essential features of the in vivo tissue architecture. Here we …

From CFTR biology toward combinatorial pharmacotherapy: expanded classification of cystic fibrosis mutations

G Veit, RG Avramescu, AN Chiang… - Molecular biology of …, 2016 - Am Soc Cell Biol
More than 2000 mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator
(CFTR) have been described that confer a range of molecular cell biological and functional …

Characterizing responses to CFTR-modulating drugs using rectal organoids derived from subjects with cystic fibrosis

JF Dekkers, G Berkers, E Kruisselbrink… - Science translational …, 2016 - science.org
Identifying subjects with cystic fibrosis (CF) who may benefit from cystic fibrosis
transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR)–modulating drugs is time-consuming, costly …

A CFTR corrector (lumacaftor) and a CFTR potentiator (ivacaftor) for treatment of patients with cystic fibrosis who have a phe508del CFTR mutation: a phase 2 …

MP Boyle, SC Bell, MW Konstan… - The lancet Respiratory …, 2014 - thelancet.com
Background The phe508del CFTR mutation causes cystic fibrosis by limiting the amount of
CFTR protein that reaches the epithelial cell surface. We tested combination treatment with …

Cystic fibrosis: a mucosal immunodeficiency syndrome

TS Cohen, A Prince - Nature medicine, 2012 - nature.com
Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) functions as a channel that
regulates the transport of ions and the movement of water across the epithelial barrier …

Cystic fibrosis: current therapeutic targets and future approaches

MM Rafeeq, HAS Murad - Journal of translational medicine, 2017 - Springer
Objectives Study of currently approved drugs and exploration of future clinical development
pipeline therapeutics for cystic fibrosis, and possible limitations in their use. Methods …