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ReviewBioconjugate chemistry2018

Passive Immunotherapies for Central Nervous System Disorders: Current Delivery Challenges and New Approaches.

Niyanta N Kumar, Michelle E Pizzo, Geetika Nehra, Brynna Wilken-Resman, Sam Boroumand, Robert G Thorne

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Review in Bioconjugate chemistry, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 57 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Progress of Immunotherapies in Parkinson's Disease.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2026
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  3. Modulation of antibody transport in the brain and spinal cord through the intranasal pathway.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2025
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  5. Neurological glycogen storage diseases and emerging therapeutics.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2024
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  10. Brain Distribution of Drugs: Pharmacokinetic Considerations.Handbook of experimental pharmacology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Niyanta N Kumar
Michelle E Pizzo
Geetika Nehra
Brynna Wilken-Resman
Sam Boroumand
University of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

Institutional Clinical and Translational Science AwardUL1TR000427 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI DREZNER, MARC KENNETH · 2012 to 2016
$32.2M
Institutional Clinical and Translational Science AwardKL2TR000428 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI DREZNER, MARC KENNETH · 2012 to 2016
$6.2M
Clinical Neuroengineering Training ProgramT32EB011434 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI MEYERAND, MARY E., PEARCE, ROBERT A · 2011 to 2015
$869k
NCATS NIH HHS KL2 TR000428NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000427NIBIB NIH HHS T32 EB011434
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Passive immunotherapy, i.e., the administration of exogenous antibodies that recognize a specific target antigen, has gained significant momentum as a potential treatment strategy for several central nervous system (CNS) disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, and brain cancer, among others. Advances in antibody engineering to create therapeutic antibody fragments or antibody conjugates have introduced new strategies that may also be applied to treat CNS disorders. However, drug delivery to the CNS for antibodies and other macromolecules has thus far proven challenging, due in large part to the blood-brain barrier and blood-cerebrospinal fluid barriers that greatly restrict transport of peripherally administered molecules from the systemic circulation into the CNS. Here, we summarize the various passive immunotherapy approaches under study for the treatment of CNS disorders, with a primary focus on disease-specific and target site-specific challenges to drug delivery and new, cutting edge methods.

Indexed as

Central Nervous System DiseasesDrug Delivery SystemsHumansImmunization, Passive

Identifiers

PMID30265523
PMCPMC7234797
OpenAlexW2893179994

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