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ArticleGene therapy2025

Expression and distribution of rAAV9 intrathecally administered in juvenile to adolescent mice.

Irvin T Garza, Meghan M Eller, Sydni K Holmes, Morgan K Schackmuth, Rachel M Bailey

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Article in Gene therapy, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Irvin T GarzaGraduate School of Basic Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2152-9072
Meghan M EllerGraduate School of Basic Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
Sydni K HolmesCenter for Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
Morgan K SchackmuthCenter for Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
Rachel M BaileyCenter for Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA. Rachel.Bailey@UTSouthwestern.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-5909-5548

Funding

UT Southwestern NORCP30DK127984 · NIDDK · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI Jeffrey M Zigman · 2022 to 2026
$7.4M
Gene Therapy Delivery for Age-related Neurodegenerative DiseasesR01AG078417 · NIA · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI Rachel M Bailey · 2023 to 2026
$2.9M
Mechanisms of Disease & Translational ScienceT32GM109776 · NIGMS · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI YIN, HELEN L · 2014 to 2018
$573k
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG078417NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK127984NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM109776U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute on Aging (U.S. National Institute on Aging) R01AG078417-01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intrathecal (IT) lumbar puncture delivery of recombinant adeno-associated virus serotype 9 (rAAV9) is a gene therapy approach being explored in preclinical studies and ongoing gene therapy clinical trials for neurological diseases. Few studies address IT rAAV9 vector distribution, tropism, and expression with respect to age of administration. Therefore, we IT delivered a rAAV9/GFP vector in mice at ages ranging from early postnatal development through adulthood (P10-P90). Tissues were assessed for transgene expression, cell tropism, and vector distribution. In the CNS, transduction was highest when delivered at post-natal day 10 (P10) and there was an age-dependent decline in transduction. We found higher transduction of astrocytes relative to neurons when rAAV9 was administered at younger ages and a switch to higher neuronal transduction with delivery at older timepoints. Biodistribution analysis of peripheral tissues showed that when delivered at P10, rAAV9 has the greatest distribution to the heart. Conversely, at P90 rAAV9 liver distribution was highest. As rAAV9 IT-delivered gene therapies continue to emerge for neurological diseases, careful consideration of the age of delivery should be taken in relation to the expected distribution and cell expression in animal models, and how this may translate to human studies.

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DependovirusGenetic TherapyGenetic VectorsAnimalsAstrocytesHumansInjections, SpinalMiceMice, Inbred C57BLNeuronsTissue DistributionTransduction, GeneticTransgenes

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PMID39501094
PMCPMC12050342

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