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ReviewNeuroRx : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics2004

Cell therapy in Huntington's disease.

Stephen B Dunnett, Anne E Rosser

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Review in NeuroRx : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
19citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 74 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Advancements in surgical treatments for Huntington disease: From pallidotomy to experimental therapies.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2024
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  8. Antioxidants in Huntington's disease.Biochimica et biophysica acta · 2012
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  9. Experimental surgical therapies for Huntington's disease.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2011
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  12. Stem Cells Transplantation and Huntington's Disease.International journal of stem cells · 2009
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  14. Composite MR Contrast Agents for Conditional Cell-Labeling.International journal of imaging systems and technology · 2008
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  16. Neurodegeneration and cell replacement.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2008
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  17. Therapeutic Strategies in Huntington's Disease.Journal of clinical neurology (Seoul, Korea) · 2006
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  18. Update on Huntington's disease.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2006
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Stephen B DunnettSchool of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3US, Wales, United Kingdom. dunnett@cf.ac.uk
Anne E Rosser
Cardiff University · GBUniversity of Wales · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Huntington's disease is an autosomal dominant genetic disease, which results in progressive neuronal degeneration in the neostriatum and neocortex, and associated functional impairments in motor, cognitive, and psychiatric domains. Although the genetic mutation is identified, involving an abnormal CAG expansion within the htt gene on chromosome 4, the mechanism by which this leads to neuronal cell death and the question of why striatal neurones are targeted both remain unknown. Thus, in addition to the search for molecular and genetic strategies to inhibit development of the disease, we still need to identify effective strategies for cellular repair in affected individuals. Aspects of the human neuropathology can be well modeled by excitotoxic or metabolic lesions in experimental animals, and in transgenic mice carrying the htt mutation, providing the basis for testing alternative therapeutic strategies. The rationale and efficacy of alternative cell therapies are reviewed, including transplantation repair with embryonic striatal tissues, expansion and differentiation of striatal-like cells from stem cells, and in vivo and ex vivo gene therapy for delivery of neuroprotective growth factor molecules. Pilot and experimental clinical trials of several approaches are now also underway, and the alternative strategies are compared.

Indexed as

Cell TransplantationAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalFetal Tissue TransplantationHumansHuntington DiseaseNeostriatumNeuronsStem Cell Transplantation

Identifiers

PMID15717043
PMCPMC534948
OpenAlexW2003565511

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