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ReviewNeurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics2010

Targeted treatments for cognitive and neurodevelopmental disorders in tuberous sclerosis complex.

Petrus J de Vries

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Review in Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01929642 (Rapalogues for Autism Phenotype in TSC), which is not on this map. Cited by 55 papers.

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55citing papers in PubMed
6.8field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT01929642 phase2completednot on this mapstarted 2013, after this paper: background citation

Rapalogues for Autism Phenotype in TSC: A Feasibility Study

TypeinterventionalSponsorHugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger, Inc.Ran2013 to 2016Enrolled3ConditionsTuberous Sclerosis Complex, Self-injury, AutismArmsSirolimus, Everolimus
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

55 citing papers in PubMed, 110 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Mast Cells in Autism Spectrum Disorder-The Enigma to Be Solved?International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  18. Peripheral Blood Leukocyte RNA-Seq Identifies a Set of Genes Related to Abnormal Psychomotor Behavior Characteristics in Patients with Schizophrenia.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2020
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  20. Effects of antiepileptic drugs in a new TSC/mTOR-dependent epilepsy mouse model.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2019
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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.

Petrus J de VriesNeurodevelopmental Service (NDS), Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust & Developmental Psychiatry Section, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 8AH United Kingdom. pd215@cam.ac.uk
University of Cambridge · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Until recently, the neuropsychiatric phenotype of tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) was presumed to be caused by the structural brain abnormalities and/or seizures seen in the disorder. However, advances in the molecular biology of the disorder have shown that TSC is a mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) overactivation syndrome, and that direct molecular pathways exist between gene mutation and cognitive/neurodevelopmental phenotype. Molecularly-targeted treatments using mTOR inhibitors (such as rapamycin) are showing great promise for the physical and neurological phenotype of TSC. Pre-clinical and early-phase clinical studies of the cognitive and neurodevelopmental features of TSC suggest that some of the neuropsychiatric phenotypes might also be reversible, even in adults with the disorder. TSC, fragile X, neurofibromatosis type 1, and disorders associated with phosphatase and tensin homo (PTEN) mutations, all signal through the mTOR signaling pathway, with the TSC1-TSC2 protein complex as a molecular switchboard at its center. Together, these disorders represent as much as 14% of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Therefore, we suggest that this signaling pathway is a key to the underlying pathophysiology of a significant subset of individuals with ASD. The study of molecularly targeted treatments in TSC and related disorders, therefore, may be of scientific and clinical value not only to those with TSC, but to a larger population that may have a neuropsychiatric phenotype attributable to mTOR overactivation or dysregulation.

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Autistic DisorderCognition DisordersHumansTuberous Sclerosis

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PMID20643380
PMCPMC5084231
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