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ReviewHepatology (Baltimore, Md.)2022

mRNA and gene editing: Late breaking therapies in liver diseases.

Nerea Zabaleta, Laura Torella, Nicholas D Weber, Gloria Gonzalez-Aseguinolaza

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Review in Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
24citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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

24 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. The strategies and advances of mRNA translation booster.Asian journal of pharmaceutical sciences · 2025
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  13. Cell therapy for liver disorders: past, present and future.Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2025
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  16. Gene Therapy Techniques and Delivery Methods (Review).Sovremennye tekhnologii v meditsine · 2025
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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

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Nerea ZabaletaGrousbeck Gene Therapy Center, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Laura TorellaGene Therapy and Regulation of Gene expression Program, Foundation for Applied Medical Research, University of Navarra, IdisNA, Pamplona, Spain.
Nicholas D WeberVivet Therapeutics, Pamplona, Spain.
Gloria Gonzalez-AseguinolazaGene Therapy and Regulation of Gene expression Program, Foundation for Applied Medical Research, University of Navarra, IdisNA, Pamplona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-1600-4562
GMV Innovating Solutions (Spain) · ESMassachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary · USUniversidad de Navarra · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The efficient delivery of RNA molecules to restore the expression of a missing or inadequately functioning protein in a target cell and the intentional specific modification of the host genome using engineered nucleases represent therapeutic concepts that are revolutionizing modern medicine. The initiation of several clinical trials using these approaches to treat metabolic liver disorders as well as the recently reported remarkable results obtained by patients with transthyretin amyloidosis highlight the advances in this field and show the potential of these therapies to treat these diseases safely and efficaciously. These advances have been possible due, firstly, to significant improvements made in RNA chemistry that increase its stability and prevent activation of the innate immune response and, secondly, to the development of very efficient liver-targeted RNA delivery systems. In parallel, the breakout of CRISPR/CRISPR-associated 9-based technology in the gene editing field has marked a turning point in in vivo modification of the cellular genome with therapeutic purposes, which can be based on gene supplementation, correction, or silencing. In the coming years we are likely to witness the therapeutic potential of these two strategies both separately and in combination. In this review we summarize the preclinical data obtained in animal models treated with mRNA as a therapeutic agent and discuss the different gene editing strategies applied to the treatment of liver diseases, highlighting both their therapeutic efficacy as well as safety concerns.

Indexed as

Gene EditingLiver DiseasesAnimalsClustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic RepeatsCRISPR-Cas SystemsRNA, MessengerRNA, Messenger

Identifiers

PMID35243655
PMCPMC9546265
OpenAlexW4214862793

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