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ReviewNeurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics2019

Modeling Polyglutamine Expansion Diseases with Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells.

Swati Naphade, Kizito-Tshitoko Tshilenge, Lisa M Ellerby

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Review in Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Swati NaphadeBuck Institute for Research on Aging, 8001 Redwood Blvd, Novato, CA, 94945, USA.
Kizito-Tshitoko TshilengeBuck Institute for Research on Aging, 8001 Redwood Blvd, Novato, CA, 94945, USA.
Lisa M EllerbyBuck Institute for Research on Aging, 8001 Redwood Blvd, Novato, CA, 94945, USA. lellerby@buckinstitute.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9050-7977
Buck Institute for Research on Aging · US

Funding

Training in Basic Research on Aging and Age-Related DiseaseT32AG000266 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIF-LAWRENC BERKELEY LAB · PI Lisa M Ellerby · 1998 to 2026
$13.8M
Identifying Factors Regulating Medium Spiny Neuron Differentiation or Maintenance as Therapeutic Targets for Huntington's Disease using Induced Pluripotent Stem CellsR01NS100529 · NINDS · BUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING · PI Lisa M Ellerby · 2016 to 2026
$5.6M
Genetic Correction of Mutant Huntingtin in VivoR01NS094422 · NINDS · BUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING · PI ELLERBY, LISA M · 2016 to 2020
$2.1M
NIA NIH HHS T32 AG000266NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS094422NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS100529
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polyglutamine expansion disorders, which include Huntington's disease, have expanded CAG repeats that result in polyglutamine expansions in affected proteins. How this specific feature leads to distinct neuropathies in 11 different diseases is a fascinating area of investigation. Most proteins affected by polyglutamine expansions are ubiquitously expressed, yet their mechanisms of selective neurotoxicity are unknown. Induced pluripotent stem cells have emerged as a valuable tool to model diseases, understand molecular mechanisms, and generate relevant human neural and glia subtypes, cocultures, and organoids. Ideally, this tool will generate specific neuronal populations that faithfully recapitulate specific polyglutamine expansion disorder phenotypes and mimic the selective vulnerability of a given disease. Here, we review how induced pluripotent technology is used to understand the effects of the disease-causing polyglutamine protein on cell function, identify new therapeutic targets, and determine how polyglutamine expansion affects human neurodevelopment and disease. We will discuss ongoing challenges and limitations in our use of induced pluripotent stem cells to model polyglutamine expansion diseases.

Indexed as

AnimalsBrainHumansHuntington DiseaseInduced Pluripotent Stem CellsNeurodegenerative DiseasesNeuronsPeptidesTrinucleotide Repeat ExpansionPeptidespolyglutamineHuntington’s diseaseinduced pluripotent stem cells.neurodegenerationpolyglutamineTriplet repeat disorders

Identifiers

PMID31792895
PMCPMC6985408
OpenAlexW2991742190

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