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ReviewNeurosurgical review2007

The potential application of gene therapy in the treatment of traumatic brain injury.

Fang Shen, Liang Wen, Xiaofeng Yang, Weiguo Liu

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Review in Neurosurgical review, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 20% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Enhancement of the liver's neuroprotective role ameliorates traumatic brain injury pathology.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  3. Article
  4. Review
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  6. Cell therapy for CNS trauma.Molecular biotechnology · 2009
    Review
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Fang ShenDepartment of Neurosurgery, First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, No. 79 Qingchun Road, Hangzhou City, 310003 Zhejiang, People's Republic of China. alfon.sf@126.com
Liang Wen
Xiaofeng Yang
Weiguo Liu
Zhejiang University · CNHangzhou First People's Hospital · CNSecond Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Advances in molecular biology have allowed the possibility of using gene therapy in the treatment of traumatic brain injury. The major tactics involve picking out the appropriate gene target and, by controlling its specific regional expression, inhibiting neuronal cell deaths and/or promoting neuronal regeneration. This review addresses the preliminary usage of gene therapy in in vitro experiments and in animal models to treat traumatic brain injury. The gene targets with therapeutic potentials, the vectors that can be employed to deliver the candidate genes, as well as different approaches for gene therapy are discussed in detail in this review. Despite the existence of several major obstacles to making it practical and effective, gene therapy could provide a new strategy for treatment of the traumatically injured brain.

Indexed as

Genetic TherapyAnimalsBrain InjuriesGene TargetingGenetic VectorsHumans

Identifiers

PMID17687574
OpenAlexW2042210180

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