Protein replacement therapy is a medical treatment that supplements or replaces a protein in patients in whom that particular protein is deficient or absent. It has undergone significant advances and is being tested in clinical trials for diseases including progeria and epidermolysis bullosa dystrophica, with promising results reported for patients with the latter condition.
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nt. There have been significant advances in this treatment. PRT is being tested in clinical trials with the diseases progeria and epidermolysis bullosa dystrophica as a potential treatment. For patients with epidermolysis bullosa dystrophica there have been promising results.
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