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ReviewNature reviews. Drug discovery2018

Therapeutic approaches to Huntington disease: from the bench to the clinic.

Nicholas S Caron, E Ray Dorsey, Michael R Hayden

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Review in Nature reviews. Drug discovery, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 83 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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83citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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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

83 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  10. Insights into RNA-mediated pathology in new mouse models of Huntington's disease.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2024
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23 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Nicholas S CaronCentre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics (CMMT), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
E Ray DorseyCenter for Health + Technology (CHeT), University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA.
Michael R HaydenCentre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics (CMMT), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The 25 years since the identification of the gene responsible for Huntington disease (HD) have stood witness to profound discoveries about the nature of the disease and its pathogenesis. Despite this progress, however, the development of disease-modifying therapies has thus far been slow. Preclinical validation of the therapeutic potential of disrupted pathways in HD has led to the advancement of pharmacological agents, both novel and repurposed, for clinical evaluation. The most promising therapeutic approaches include huntingtin (HTT) lowering and modification as well as modulation of neuroinflammation and synaptic transmission. With clinical trials for many of these approaches imminent or currently ongoing, the coming years are promising not only for HD but also for more prevalent neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer and Parkinson disease, in which many of these pathways have been similarly implicated.

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AnimalsClinical Trials as TopicDrug Evaluation, PreclinicalHumansHuntingtin ProteinHuntington DiseasePharmaceutical PreparationsSignal TransductionHuntingtin ProteinPharmaceutical Preparations

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PMID30237454

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