Hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis: a model of medical progress for a fatal disease

D Adams, H Koike, M Slama, T Coelho - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2019 - nature.com
Hereditary amyloidogenic transthyretin (ATTRv) amyloidosis with polyneuropathy (also
known as familial amyloid polyneuropathy) is a condition with adult onset caused by …

Expert consensus recommendations to improve diagnosis of ATTR amyloidosis with polyneuropathy

D Adams, Y Ando, JM Beirão, T Coelho, MA Gertz… - Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Amyloid transthyretin (ATTR) amyloidosis with polyneuropathy (PN) is a progressive,
debilitating, systemic disease wherein transthyretin protein misfolds to form amyloid, which …

Development and clinical translation of approved gene therapy products for genetic disorders

A Shahryari, M Saghaeian Jazi, S Mohammadi… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The field of gene therapy is striving more than ever to define a path to the clinic and the
market. Twenty gene therapy products have already been approved and over two thousand …

Chemical and biology of sulfur fluoride exchange (SuFEx) click chemistry for drug discovery

SW Lucas, RZ Qin, KP Rakesh, KSS Kumar, HL Qin - Bioorganic chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Compounds containing an Ssingle bondF bond have garnered intense interest in the
chemical and biological literature. In particular, sulfonyl fluorides (RSO 2 F) are commonly …

Diagnosis and treatment of hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (hATTR) polyneuropathy: current perspectives on improving patient care

M Luigetti, A Romano, A Di Paolantonio… - … and clinical risk …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (hATTR) with polyneuropathy (formerly known as
Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy) is a rare disease due to mutations in the gene encoding …

The race of 10 synthetic RNAi-based drugs to the pharmaceutical market

R Titze-de-Almeida, C David… - Pharmaceutical …, 2017 - Springer
Ten years after Fire and Melo's Nobel Prize for discovery of gene silencing by double-
stranded RNA, a remarkable progress was achieved in RNA interference (RNAi). Changes …

Patisiran for the treatment of hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis

J Yang - Expert review of clinical pharmacology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis is caused by a mutation in
transthyretin (TTR) gene resulting in misfolded TTR protein accumulating as amyloid fibrils …

Natural history and survival in stage 1 Val30Met transthyretin familial amyloid polyneuropathy

T Coelho, M Inês, I Conceição, M Soares… - Neurology, 2018 - neurology.org
Objective To assess the natural history and treatment effect on survival among patients with
transthyretin-associated familial amyloid polyneuropathy (TTR-FAP) stage 1 Val30Met …

Trials for slowly progressive neurogenetic diseases need surrogate endpoints

MM Reilly, DN Herrmann, D Pareyson… - Annals of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Heritable neurological disorders provide insights into disease mechanisms that permit
development of novel therapeutic approaches including antisense oligonucleotides, RNA …

Clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment of TTR amyloidosis

M Kapoor, AM Rossor, M Laura… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Systemic amyloidosis can be hereditary or acquired with autosomal dominant mutations in
the transthyretin gene (TTR) being the most common cause of hereditary amyloidosis …