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ArticleThe Journal of clinical investigation2006

RNAi: a novel strategy for the treatment of prion diseases.

Qingzhong Kong

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Article in The Journal of clinical investigation, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. New implications for prion diseases therapy and prophylaxis.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Qingzhong KongDepartment of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA. qxk2@case.edu
Case Western Reserve University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prion disease refers to a group of fatal transmissible neurodegenerative diseases for which no pharmacological treatment is available. The cellular prion protein (PrP(C)) is required for both prion replication and pathogenesis, and reducing PrP(C) levels has been shown to extend survival time after prion infection. RNA interference (RNAi) is a sequence-specific posttranscriptional gene silencing mechanism. In this issue of the JCI, Pfeifer et al. report that lentivector-mediated RNAi significantly reduced neuronal PrP(C) expression; effectively suppressed accumulation of the infectious protease-resistant form of PrP (PrP(Sc)) in a persistently infected neuroblastoma cell line; and markedly slowed the progression of prion disease in a unique chimeric mouse model (see the related article beginning on page 3204). These findings indicate that lentivector-mediated RNAi could, in principle, be developed for the therapy of prion disease.

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RNA InterferenceAnimalsGenetic VectorsHumansLentivirusModels, BiologicalPrion DiseasesPrionsScrapiePrions

Identifiers

PMID17143323
PMCPMC1679715
OpenAlexW2160292771

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