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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine2014

Synthetic chemically modified mRNA (modRNA): toward a new technology platform for cardiovascular biology and medicine.

Kenneth R Chien, Lior Zangi, Kathy O Lui

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.

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41citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

41 citing papers in PubMed, 64 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Direct intramyocardial injection of VEGF mRNA in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2023
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  11. RNA Therapeutics: Bridging Discovery and Clinical Implementation.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
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  13. Next-generation direct reprogramming.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024
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  16. Optimization of storage conditions for lipid nanoparticle-formulated self-replicating RNA vaccines.Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society · 2023
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  17. Modified mRNA Therapeutics for Heart Diseases.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  19. Anti-atherosclerotic therapies: Milestones, challenges, and emerging innovations.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2022
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  20. Progress in Bioengineering Strategies for Heart Regenerative Medicine.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Kenneth R ChienDepartment of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 Department of Cell and Molecular Biology and Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 171 77, Sweden.
Lior ZangiDepartment of Cardiology, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
Kathy O LuiDepartment of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138.
Harvard University · USBoston Children's Hospital · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Over the past two decades, a host of new molecular pathways have been uncovered that guide mammalian heart development and disease. The ability to genetically manipulate these pathways in vivo have largely been dependent on the generation of genetically engineered mouse model systems or the transfer of exogenous genes in a variety of DNA vectors (plasmid, adenoviral, adeno-associated viruses, antisense oligonucleotides, etc.). Recently, a new approach to manipulate the gene program of the adult mammalian heart has been reported that will quickly allow the high-efficiency expression of virtually any protein in the intact heart of mouse, rat, porcine, nonhuman primate, and human heart cells via the generation of chemically modified mRNA (modRNA). The technology platform has important implications for delineating the specific paracrine cues that drive human cardiogenesis, and the pathways that might trigger heart regeneration via the rapid generation of modRNA libraries of paracrine factors for direct in vivo administration. In addition, the strategy can be extended to a variety of other cardiovascular tissues and solid organs across multiple species, and recent improvements in the core technology have supported moving toward the first human studies of modRNA in the next 2 years. These recent advances are reviewed along with projections of the potential impact of the technology for a host of other biomedical problems in the cardiovascular system.

Indexed as

AnimalsGenetic TherapyGene Transfer TechniquesHeartHeart DiseasesHumansMiceMuscle, SkeletalMyocardiumMyocytes, CardiacParacrine CommunicationProteinsRatsRegenerationRNA, MessengerStem CellsProteinsRNA, MessengerVascular Endothelial Growth Factor A

Identifiers

PMID25301935
PMCPMC4292072
OpenAlexW2152000585

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