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ReviewNeuroRx : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics2006

Therapeutics development for spinal muscular atrophy.

Charlotte J Sumner

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Review in NeuroRx : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers.

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42citing papers in PubMed
6.4field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

42 citing papers in PubMed, 97 citations in OpenAlex.

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  16. Reliability and validity of the TIMPSI for infants with spinal muscular atrophy type I.Pediatric physical therapy : the official publication of the Section on Pediatrics of the American Physical Therapy Association · 2013
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  19. The canonical nuclear factor-κB pathway regulates cell survival in a developmental model of spinal cord motoneurons.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2011
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Charlotte J SumnerNeurogenetics Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
National Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Studies Of Hereditary Neurological Disease: Disease Gene IdentificationZIANS002974 · NINDS · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE · PI FISCHBECK, KENNETH · 2009 to 2023
$9.8M
Studies Of Hereditary Neurological Disease: Disease Gene IdentificationZ01NS002974 · NINDS · NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE · PI FISCHBECK, KENNETH H · 1999 to 2008
$2.4M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spinal muscular atrophy is an autosomal recessive motor neuron disease that is the leading inherited cause of infant and early childhood mortality. Spinal muscular atrophy is caused by mutation of the telomeric copy of the survival motor neuron gene (SMN1), but all patients retain a centromeric copy of the gene, SMN2. SMN2 produces reduced amounts of full-length SMN mRNA, and spinal muscular atrophy likely results from insufficient levels of SMN protein in motor neurons. The SMN protein plays a well-established role in assembly of the spliceosome and may also mediate mRNA trafficking in the axon and nerve terminus of neurons. In patients, spinal muscular atrophy disease severity correlates inversely with increased SMN2 gene copy number and, in transgenic mice lacking endogenous SMN, increasing SMN2 gene copy number from two to eight prevents the SMA disease phenotype. These observations suggest that increasing SMN expression levels may be beneficial to SMA patients. Currently pursued therapeutic strategies for SMA include induction of SMN2 gene expression, modulation of splicing of SMN2-derived transcripts, stabilization of SMN protein, neuroprotection of SMN deficit neurons, and SMN1 gene replacement. Early clinical trials of candidate therapeutics are now ongoing in SMA patients. Clinical trials in this disease present a unique set of challenges, including the development of meaningful outcome measures and disease biomarkers.

Indexed as

AnimalsCyclic AMP Response Element-Binding ProteinDisease Models, AnimalGenetic TherapyHumansMuscular Atrophy, SpinalNerve Tissue ProteinsNeuroprotective AgentsRNA-Binding ProteinsSMN Complex ProteinsStem Cell TransplantationSurvival of Motor Neuron 1 ProteinSurvival of Motor Neuron 2 ProteinCyclic AMP Response Element-Binding ProteinNerve Tissue ProteinsNeuroprotective AgentsRNA-Binding ProteinsSMN1 protein, humanSmn1 protein, mouseSMN2 protein, humanSMN Complex ProteinsSurvival of Motor Neuron 1 ProteinSurvival of Motor Neuron 2 Protein

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PMID16554261
PMCPMC3593434
OpenAlexW2032950774

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