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ReviewMolecular therapy. Nucleic acids2025

Trends and challenges of AAV-delivered gene editing therapeutics for CNS disorders: Implications for neurodegenerative disease.

Boris Kantor, Bernadette O'Donovan, Ornit Chiba-Falek

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Review in Molecular therapy. Nucleic acids, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  11. Advances in Engineered Virus-Like Particles for Genome Editing and Therapy.BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Boris KantorDepartment of Neurobiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
Bernadette O'DonovanDivision of Translational Brain Sciences, Department of Neurology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
Ornit Chiba-FalekDivision of Translational Brain Sciences, Department of Neurology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, USA.

Funding

Lewy body neuropathologies and SNCA gene: variants expression and splicingRF1NS113548 · NINDS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI CHIBA-FALEK, ORNIT · 2020 to 2020
$3.8M
Deciphering the regulation of gene expression in the etiology of LOADR01AG057522 · NIA · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI CHIBA-FALEK, ORNIT, LUTZ, MICHAEL WILLIAM · 2017 to 2021
$3.6M
Untangling the diversity in the genetic architecture of late-onset Alzheimer's disease using single cell multi-omicsRF1AG077695 · NIA · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI CHIBA-FALEK, ORNIT · 2022 to 2022
$2.3M
APOE-targeted therapy for precision medicine in late onset Alzheimer's disease: A novel epigenome editing approach for downregulation of APOEe4 expressionR41AG077992 · NIA · CLAIRIGENE, LLC · PI HAMM, ELAINE · 2022 to 2022
$493k
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG057522NIA NIH HHS R41 AG077992NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG077695NINDS NIH HHS RF1 NS113548
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent advances in gene-editing technologies offer new opportunities for drug development to treat unmet medical needs in central nervous system (CNS) disorders including neurogenerative diseases of the aging brain. The adeno-associated virus (AAV) is a promising and most widely utilized vector for gene therapy application including the CNS. AAV is characterized by high transduction efficiency in both dividing and non-dividing cells, low immunogenicity and toxicity, and exceptional tissue specificity. The development of clustered regularly interspaced short-palindromic repeat (CRISPR)-based technologies has revolutionized all aspects of modern sciences and created an innovative therapeutic toolkit with the potential to address a wide range of neurological diseases, including Alzheimer's (AD) and Parkinson's (PD) diseases. However, AAV limitations for delivering CRISPR modalities continue to impede viable therapeutic interventions targeting the brain. This review highlights challenges and strategies to deliver AAV-CRISPR-based therapeutic cargos for gene therapy applications in the CNS, with a particular focus on AD and PD preclinical studies.

Indexed as

adeno-associated vectorall-in-one delivery systemAlzheimer’s diseaseAPOEclustered regularly interspaced short-palindromic repeats/CRISPR-associated proteinepigenome-based editinggene editingMT: Delivery StrategiesParkinson’s diseaseSNCAtranscriptional repressor

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PMID40799507
PMCPMC12341529

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