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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2019

Epilepsy Gene Therapy Using an Engineered Potassium Channel.

Albert Snowball, Elodie Chabrol, Robert C Wykes, Tawfeeq Shekh-Ahmad, Jonathan H Cornford, Andreas Lieb, Michael P Hughes, Giulia Massaro, Ahad A Rahim, Kevan S Hashemi and 3 more

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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69citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.5field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

69 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 122 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Targeting the trunk of multi-root common epilepsy with gene therapy.Molecular therapy. Methods & clinical development · 2025
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  12. Gene therapies alleviate absence epilepsy associated withbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  15. State-of-the-art gene therapy in epilepsy.Current opinion in neurology · 2025
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  17. Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy: Central Respiratory Chemoreception.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Albert SnowballDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London WC1N 3BG, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-4632-445X
Elodie ChabrolDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London WC1N 3BG, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-8780-5375
Robert C WykesDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London WC1N 3BG, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-6141-6822
Tawfeeq Shekh-AhmadDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London WC1N 3BG, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-6165-2219
Jonathan H CornfordDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London WC1N 3BG, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-2382-514X
Andreas LiebDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London WC1N 3BG, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-9567-649X
Michael P HughesUCL School of Pharmacy, University College London, London WC1N 1AX, United Kingdom, and.ORCID 0000-0003-4859-9051
Giulia MassaroUCL School of Pharmacy, University College London, London WC1N 1AX, United Kingdom, and.ORCID 0000-0002-5986-6082
Ahad A RahimUCL School of Pharmacy, University College London, London WC1N 1AX, United Kingdom, and.ORCID 0000-0003-0044-0949
Kevan S HashemiOpen Source Instruments Inc., Watertown, Massachusetts 02472.ORCID 0000-0002-6007-893X
Dimitri M KullmannDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London WC1N 3BG, United Kingdom, d.kullmann@ucl.ac.uk m.walker@ucl.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0001-6696-3545
Matthew C WalkerDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London WC1N 3BG, United Kingdom, d.kullmann@ucl.ac.uk m.walker@ucl.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-0812-0352
Stephanie SchorgeDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London WC1N 3BG, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-1541-5148
Epilepsy Research UK · GBUniversity College London · GBEnergy Institute · GBPrimary Source · US

Funding

Medical Research Council G0801316Medical Research Council G0802158Medical Research Council G116/147Medical Research Council MR/L01095X/1Medical Research Council MR/N026101/1Medical Research Council MR/R025134/1Wellcome Trust 209807/Z/17/ZWellcome Trust 212285/Z/18/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Refractory focal epilepsy is a devastating disease for which there is frequently no effective treatment. Gene therapy represents a promising alternative, but treating epilepsy in this way involves irreversible changes to brain tissue, so vector design must be carefully optimized to guarantee safety without compromising efficacy. We set out to develop an epilepsy gene therapy vector optimized for clinical translation. The gene encoding the voltage-gated potassium channel Kv1.1,

Indexed as

Genetic TherapyAnimalsBrainDisease Models, AnimalEpilepsyGenetic VectorsKv1.1 Potassium ChannelMaleRatsSeizuresKv1.1 Potassium ChannelEEGepilepsygene therapylentiviruspotassium channelseizure detection

Identifiers

PMID30755487
PMCPMC6468110
OpenAlexW2911671193

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