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ReviewCureus2022

Huntington's Disease: A Clinical Review.

Rajeshwar Andhale, Deepti Shrivastava

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Review in Cureus, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
22citing papers in PubMed
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

22 citing papers in PubMed, 43 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rajeshwar AndhaleMedicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Science, Wardha, IND.
Deepti ShrivastavaDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Science, Wardha, IND.
Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Huntington's gene on chromosome 4 has a dominantly inherited CAG trinucleotide repeat expansion, ultimately resulting in Huntington's disease (HD), a completely penetrant neurological condition. The frequency is 10-100 times higher in the population descended from Europe than in East Asia. Through various processes, including impairment of proteostasis, transcription, and cell function, as well as direct toxicity of the mutant protein, mutated huntingtin triggers neuronal malfunction and loss at the cellular level. As the disease worsens, the brain becomes affected together with the striatum's initial macroscopic alterations. Since there are presently few medications that can change the course of the disease, palliative therapy, and symptom control are the cornerstone of treatment. Studying the cellular pathology and gross structural changes to the brain which occur as the illness advances have made enormous progress in recent years. There's been a substantial increase in medical studies and possible treatment options over the past ten years. The new treatments that aim to reduce amounts of mutant huntingtin are the most optimistic. However, one strategy is antisense oligonucleotide treatment, for which clinical trials are currently being conducted. These control trials might help us get another inch ahead of managing and perhaps even eliminating this nasty disease.

Indexed as

autosomal dominant diseasecag repeatchoreagenetic disorderhuntington's disease

Identifiers

PMID36176885
PMCPMC9512951
OpenAlexW4293570086

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Registered trials

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