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ReviewDrug discovery today2019

Induced pluripotent stem cells for neural drug discovery.

Atena Farkhondeh, Rong Li, Kirill Gorshkov, Kevin G Chen, Matthew Might, Steven Rodems, Donald C Lo, Wei Zheng

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Review in Drug discovery today, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

49 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Atena FarkhondehNational Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Rong LiNational Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Kirill GorshkovNational Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Kevin G ChenNational Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Matthew MightUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Steven RodemsRetrophin, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA.
Donald C LoNational Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Wei ZhengNational Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. Electronic address: wzheng@mail.nih.gov.

Funding

Drug Repurposing Screening for Rare and Neglected DiseasesZIATR000018 · NCATS · NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCING TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES · PI ZHENG, WEI · 2015 to 2025
$24.6M
Human pluripotent stem cellsZICNS003008 · NINDS · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE · PI ROBEY, PAMELA · 2009 to 2025
$21.2M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA TR000018
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease are growing problems, as average life expectancy is increasing globally. Drug discovery for neurological disease remains a major challenge. Poor understanding of disease pathophysiology and incomplete representation of human disease in animal models hinder therapeutic drug development. Recent advances with induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have enabled modeling of human diseases with patient-derived neural cells. Utilizing iPSC-derived neurons advances compound screening and evaluation of drug efficacy. These cells have the genetic backgrounds of patients that more precisely model disease-specific pathophysiology and phenotypes. Neural cells derived from iPSCs can be produced in a large quantity. Therefore, application of iPSC-derived human neurons is a new direction for neuronal drug discovery.

Indexed as

Drug DiscoveryInduced Pluripotent Stem CellsHumansNervous System Diseases

Identifiers

PMID30664937
PMCPMC6476685

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