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ReviewPharmaceutics2023

Oligonucleotide Therapeutics for Age-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders: Successes and Challenges.

Thomas A Nicholson, Michael Sagmeister, Susanne N Wijesinghe, Hussein Farah, Rowan S Hardy, Simon W Jones

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Review in Pharmaceutics, 2023. 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
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% 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, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Antisense Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Targeting Age-Related Diseases.BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy · 2026
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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

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Thomas A NicholsonMRC Versus Arthritis Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5826-7312
Michael SagmeisterInstitute for Metabolism and Systems Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.
Susanne N WijesingheMRC Versus Arthritis Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7981-8216
Hussein FarahMRC Versus Arthritis Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.
Rowan S HardyInstitute for Metabolism and Systems Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6938-6739
Simon W JonesMRC Versus Arthritis Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6785-2310
Arthritis UK · GBUniversity of Birmingham · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_PC_19029Medical Research Council MR/P021220/1Medical Research Council MR/T008172/1Medical Research Council MR/W026961/1Versus Arthritis 20843Versus Arthritis 21530
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Age-related disorders of the musculoskeletal system including sarcopenia, osteoporosis and arthritis represent some of the most common chronic conditions worldwide, for which there remains a great clinical need to develop safer and more efficacious pharmacological treatments. Collectively, these conditions involve multiple tissues, including skeletal muscle, bone, articular cartilage and the synovium within the joint lining. In this review, we discuss the potential for oligonucleotide therapies to combat the unmet clinical need in musculoskeletal disorders by evaluating the successes of oligonucleotides to modify candidate pathological gene targets and cellular processes in relevant tissues and cells of the musculoskeletal system. Further, we discuss the challenges that remain for the clinical development of oligonucleotides therapies for musculoskeletal disorders and evaluate some of the current approaches to overcome these.

Indexed as

bonecartilageoligonucleotidesosteoarthritisosteoporosisrheumatoid arthritissarcopeniaskeletal musclesynovium

Identifiers

PMID36678864
PMCPMC9866666
OpenAlexW4315648695

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Registered trials

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