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ArticleAnnals of neurology2008

Future of cell and gene therapies for Parkinson's disease.

Ole Isacson, Jeffrey H Kordower

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Article in Annals of neurology, 2008. 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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19citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 52 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Transplantation of Airway Epithelial Stem/Progenitor Cells: A Future for Cell-Based Therapy.American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology · 2017
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  10. Parkinson's disease therapeutics: new developments and challenges since the introduction of levodopa.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2012
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  14. Recent advances in lentiviral vector development and applications.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2010
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  16. Spatiotemporally separable Shh domains in the midbrain define distinct dopaminergic progenitor pools.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2009
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  19. Nigrostriatal rAAV-mediated GDNF overexpression induces robust weight loss in a rat model of age-related obesity.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2009
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ole IsacsonDepartment of Neurology (Neuroscience), Center for Neuroregeneration Research and National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Udall Parkinson's Disease Research Center of Excellence, Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA.
Jeffrey H Kordower
McLean Hospital · USPenn Presbyterian Medical Center · US

Funding

Transplantation of ES Cell-derived DA Neurons into PD Primate ModelsP50NS039793 · NINDS · MC LEAN HOSPITAL (BELMONT, MA) · PI ISACSON, OLE · 1999 to 2010
$16.3M
TH and GTPCHI gene therapy for Parkinson's diseaseR01NS055143 · NINDS · RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI KORDOWER, JEFFREY H · 2007 to 2010
$2.1M
NINDS NIH HHS NS39793NINDS NIH HHS NS43920NINDS NIH HHS NS55143NINDS NIH HHS P50 NS039793NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS055143
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The experimental field of restorative neurology continues to advance with implantation of cells or transfer of genes to treat patients with neurological disease. Both strategies have generated a consensus that demonstrates their capacity for structural and molecular brain modification in the adult brain. However, both approaches have yet to successfully address the complexities to make such novel therapeutic modalities work in the clinic. Prior experimental cell transplantation to patients with PD utilized dissected pieces of fetal midbrain tissue, containing mixtures of cells and neuronal types, as donor cells. Stem cell and progenitor cell biology provide new opportunities for selection and development of large batches of specific therapeutic cells. This may allow for cell composition analysis and dosing to optimize the benefit to an individual patient. The biotechnology used for cell and gene therapy for treatment of neurological disease may eventually be as advanced as today's pharmaceutical drug-related design processes. Current gene therapy phase 1 safety trials for PD include the delivery of a growth factor (neurturin via the glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor receptor) and a transmitter enzyme (glutamic acid decarboxylase and aromatic acid decarboxylase). Many new insights from cell biological and molecular studies provide opportunities to selectively express or suppress factors relevant to neuroprotection and improved function of neurons involved in PD. Future gene and cell therapies are likely to coexist with classic pharmacological therapies because their use can be tailored to individual patients' underlying disease process and need for neuroprotective or restorative interventions.

Indexed as

Cell- and Tissue-Based TherapyGenetic TherapyAdultAnimalsCell TransplantationClinical Trials as TopicHumansNerve Growth FactorsNerve RegenerationNeurogliaNeuronsNeuroprotective AgentsOxidopamineParkinson DiseaseStem CellsSympatholyticsNerve Growth FactorsNeuroprotective AgentsOxidopamineSympatholytics

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PMID19127583
PMCPMC3982797
OpenAlexW2167431909

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