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ReviewCurrent gene therapy2025

Neurotrophins as Potential Gene Therapy Targets for Huntington's Disease.

Sagor Kumar Roy, Ashima Barman, Kumary Labone Sarkar, Seidu A Richard, Bijal Arvinkumar Lacmane

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Review in Current gene therapy, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors.

Sagor Kumar RoyDepartment of Neurology, TMSS Medical College and RC Hospital, Bogura-5800, Rajshahi, Bangladesh.ORCID 0000-0002-2723-2608
Ashima BarmanDepartment of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Gono Bishwabidyalay (University), Ashulia, Savar, Dhaka-1344, Bangladesh.
Kumary Labone SarkarDepartment of Zoology, Rajshahi College, National University, Shaheb Bazar, Rajshahi- 6100, Bangladesh.
Seidu A RichardDepartment of Biochemistry and Forensic Sciences School Chemical and Biochemical Sciences, C. K. Tedam University of Technology and Applied Sciences (CKT-UTAS), Navrongo, UK 0215-5321, Ghana.ORCID 0000-0003-3475-0363
Bijal Arvinkumar LacmaneDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Santo António dos Cavaleiros-2660-450, Portugal.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

"Huntington's disease" (HD) is an autosomal dominant hereditary neurodegenerative disease characterized by defects in efferent striatal neurons, cortical neurons, and the basal ganglia. The pathogenesis of HD is still unclear, and there is currently no curative therapy for this disorder. This review emphasizes the potential beneficial effects of various neurotrophic factors in HD. PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, and google scholar databases were used to search for all studies on the efficacy of neurotrophic factors in HD. Several gene therapy strategies have been employed to treat HD, including gene therapy with a variety of neuroprotective factors. Moreover, a wide variability of gene therapy approaches such as a neurotrophin, has shown promising results for both prevention and neuroprotection in HD, which may be due to their potential to prevent neuronal cell death or decrease neurodegeneration, thereby promoting the growth of innovative axons, dendrites, and synapses leading to improvement of HD. Neurotrophic factors may be suitable as neuroprotective therapy agents in HD. Therefore, substantial research on gene therapy should be conducted to provide better treatment options for HD in the future.

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Genetic TherapyHuntington DiseaseNerve Growth FactorsAnimalsHumansNeuronsNeuroprotective AgentsNerve Growth FactorsNeuroprotective Agentsgene therapyhuntingtin proteinHuntington’s diseaseneuroprotection.neurotrophic factorsneutrophins

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