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ReviewCNS neuroscience & therapeutics2018

Inhibition of phosphodiesterases as a strategy to achieve neuroprotection in Huntington's disease.

Antonella Cardinale, Francesca R Fusco

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Review in CNS neuroscience & therapeutics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 43 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Early-Onset Movement Disorder Syndrome Caused by Biallelic Variants in PDE1B Encoding Phosphodiesterase 1B.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2025
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  13. The Emerging Role of Phosphodiesterases in Movement Disorders.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2021
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  16. A2A Receptor Dysregulation in Dystonia DYT1 Knock-Out Mice.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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  20. Huntington's disease: From basic science to therapeutics.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Antonella CardinaleLaboratory of Neuroanatomy, Santa Lucia Foundation IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Francesca R FuscoLaboratory of Neuroanatomy, Santa Lucia Foundation IRCCS, Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2226-523X
Fondazione Santa Lucia · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Huntington's disease (HD) is a fatal neurodegenerative condition, due to a mutation in the IT15 gene encoding for huntingtin. Currently, disease-modifying therapy is not available for HD, and only symptomatic drugs are administered for the management of symptoms. In the last few years, preclinical and clinical studies have indicated that pharmacological strategies aimed at inhibiting cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase (PDEs) may develop into a novel therapeutic approach in neurodegenerative disorders. PDEs are a family of enzymes that hydrolyze cyclic nucleotides into monophosphate isoforms. Cyclic nucleotides are second messengers that transduce the signal of hormones and neurotransmitters in many physiological processes, such as protein kinase cascades and synaptic transmission. An alteration in their balance results in the dysregulation of different biological mechanisms (transcriptional dysregulation, immune cell activation, inflammatory mechanisms, and regeneration) that are involved in neurological diseases. In this review, we discuss the action of phosphodiesterase inhibitors and their role as therapeutic agents in HD.

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AnimalsHumansHuntington DiseaseNeuroprotective AgentsPhosphodiesterase InhibitorsPhosphoric Diester HydrolasesNeuroprotective AgentsPhosphodiesterase InhibitorsPhosphoric Diester Hydrolasescyclic nucleotidesHuntington's diseaseneuroprotectionPDE inhibitorsphosphodiesterase (PDEs)

Identifiers

PMID29500937
PMCPMC6489766
OpenAlexW2790867797

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