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ReviewJournal of Parkinson's disease

An Update on Gene Therapy Approaches for Parkinson's Disease: Restoration of Dopaminergic Function.

Amber D Van Laar, Victor S Van Laar, Waldy San Sebastian, Aristide Merola, J Bradley Elder, Russell R Lonser, Krystof S Bankiewicz

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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 27 papers.

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27citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

27 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Persistent GDNF Expression 45 Months after Putaminal Infusion of AAV2-GDNF in a Patient with Parkinson's Disease.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2024
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  12. Neurosurgical gene therapy for central nervous system diseases.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2024
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  15. Targeting Mitochondrial Complex I Deficiency in MPPBiological procedures online · 2024
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  16. Unraveling the role of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor in the treatment of Parkinson's disease.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 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

7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Amber D Van LaarAsklepios BioPharmaceutical, Inc., Columbus, OH, USA.
Victor S Van LaarDepartment of Neurological Surgery, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
Waldy San SebastianAsklepios BioPharmaceutical, Inc., Columbus, OH, USA.
Aristide MerolaDepartment of Neurology, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
J Bradley ElderDepartment of Neurological Surgery, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
Russell R LonserDepartment of Neurological Surgery, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
Krystof S BankiewiczDepartment of Neurological Surgery, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
Neurological Surgery · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · USAskBio (United States) · USThe Ohio State University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

At present there is a significant unmet need for clinically available treatments for Parkinson's disease (PD) patients to stably restore balance to dopamine network function, leaving patients with inadequate management of symptoms as the disease progresses. Gene therapy is an attractive approach to impart a durable effect on neuronal function through introduction of genetic material to reestablish dopamine levels and/or functionally recover dopaminergic signaling by improving neuronal health. Ongoing clinical gene therapy trials in PD are focused on enzymatic enhancement of dopamine production and/or the restoration of the nigrostriatal pathway to improve dopaminergic network function. In this review, we discuss data from current gene therapy trials for PD and recent advances in study design and surgical approaches.

Indexed as

Parkinson DiseaseDopamineGenetic TherapyHumansNeuronsDopaminearomatic-L-amino-acid decarboxylaseclinical trial designGene therapyglial cell line-derived neurotrophic factorimage-guided convection-enhanced deliveryParkinson’s disease

Identifiers

PMID34366374
PMCPMC8543243
OpenAlexW3189118405

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