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ReviewNature reviews. Neuroscience2024

Gene therapy for CNS disorders: modalities, delivery and translational challenges.

Jingjing Gao, Swetharajan Gunasekar, Ziting Judy Xia, Kiruba Shalin, Christopher Jiang, Hao Chen, Dongtak Lee, Sohyung Lee, Nishkal D Pisal, James N Luo and 4 more

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Review in Nature reviews. Neuroscience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.

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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

52 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Jingjing GaoDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA. jgao@umass.edu.
Swetharajan GunasekarCenter for Nanomedicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Ziting Judy XiaCenter for Nanomedicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0003-6666-7430
Kiruba ShalinDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
Christopher JiangCenter for Nanomedicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Hao ChenMarine College, Shandong University, Weihai, China.
Dongtak LeeCenter for Nanomedicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8716-1736
Sohyung LeeCenter for Nanomedicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Nishkal D PisalDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
James N LuoCenter for Nanomedicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9782-2323
Ana GriciucHarvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. agriciuc@mgh.harvard.edu.
Jeffrey M KarpCenter for Nanomedicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. jmkarp@bwh.harvard.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4752-7374
Rudolph TanziHarvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. tanzi@helix.mgh.harvard.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7032-1454
Nitin JoshiCenter for Nanomedicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. njoshi@bwh.harvard.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8138-7611

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gene therapy is emerging as a powerful tool to modulate abnormal gene expression, a hallmark of most CNS disorders. The transformative potentials of recently approved gene therapies for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and active cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy are encouraging further development of this approach. However, most attempts to translate gene therapy to the clinic have failed to make it to market. There is an urgent need not only to tailor the genes that are targeted to the pathology of interest but to also address delivery challenges and thereby maximize the utility of genetic tools. In this Review, we provide an overview of gene therapy modalities for CNS diseases, emphasizing the interconnectedness of different delivery strategies and routes of administration. Important gaps in understanding that could accelerate the clinical translatability of CNS genetic interventions are addressed, and we present lessons learned from failed clinical trials that may guide the future development of gene therapies for the treatment and management of CNS disorders.

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Central Nervous System DiseasesGenetic TherapyAnimalsGene Transfer TechniquesHumansTranslational Research, Biomedical

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