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ReviewJournal of neuroinflammation2024

The potential of gene delivery for the treatment of traumatic brain injury.

James Dooley, Jasmine G Hughes, Edward J Needham, Katerina A Palios, Adrian Liston

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Review in Journal of neuroinflammation, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

James DooleyDepartment of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. jd2045@cam.ac.uk.
Jasmine G HughesDepartment of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Edward J NeedhamDepartment of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Katerina A PaliosDepartment of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Adrian ListonDepartment of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/X029166/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Therapeutics for traumatic brains injuries constitute a global unmet medical need. Despite the advances in neurocritical care, which have dramatically improved the survival rate for the ~ 70 million patients annually, few treatments have been developed to counter the long-term neuroinflammatory processes and accompanying cognitive impairments, frequent among patients. This review looks at gene delivery as a potential therapeutic development avenue for traumatic brain injury. We discuss the capacity of gene delivery to function in traumatic brain injury, by producing beneficial biologics within the brain. Gene delivery modalities, promising vectors and key delivery routes are discussed, along with the pathways that biological cargos could target to improve long-term outcomes for patients. Coupling blood-brain barrier crossing with sustained local production, gene delivery has the potential to convert proteins with useful biological properties, but poor pharmacodynamics, into effective therapeutics. Finally, we review the limitations and health economics of traumatic brain injury, and whether future gene delivery approaches will be viable for patients and health care systems.

Indexed as

Brain Injuries, TraumaticGenetic TherapyGene Transfer TechniquesAnimalsBlood-Brain BarrierHumansAAVGene deliveryNeuroimmunologyTBI

Identifiers

PMID39069631
PMCPMC11283729

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