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ReviewJournal of Parkinson's disease

Improved Delivery Methods for Gene Therapy and Cell Transplantation in Parkinson's Disease.

Paul S Larson

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Review in Journal of Parkinson's disease. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 38% of its field
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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Clinical GDNF delivery methods for Parkinson's disease.Journal of Parkinson's disease · 2026
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  5. Advancements in surgical treatments for Huntington disease: From pallidotomy to experimental therapies.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2024
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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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Paul S LarsonDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
University of Arizona · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A number of cell transplantation and gene therapy trials have been performed over the last three decades in an effort to restore function in Parkinson's disease. Much has been learned about optimizing delivery methods for these therapeutics. This is particularly true in gene therapy, which has predominated the clinical trial landscape in recent years; however, cell transplantation for Parkinson's disease is currently undergoing a renaissance. Innovations such as cannula design, iMRI-guided surgery and an evolution in delivery strategy has radically changed the way investigators approach clinical trial design. Future therapeutic strategies may employ newer delivery methods such as chronically implanted infusion devices and focal opening of the blood brain barrier with focused ultrasound.

Indexed as

Parkinson DiseaseBlood-Brain BarrierCell TransplantationGenetic TherapyHumanscell transplantationclinical trialgene therapyiMRI-guided surgeryParkinson’s diseasestereotactic delivery

Identifiers

PMID34366372
PMCPMC8543258
OpenAlexW3189470544

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Registered trials

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