Gene therapy for CNS disorders: modalities, delivery and translational challenges

J Gao, S Gunasekar, Z **a, K Shalin, C Jiang… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Gene therapy is emerging as a powerful tool to modulate abnormal gene expression, a
hallmark of most CNS disorders. The transformative potentials of recently approved gene …

Exploring molecular mechanisms, therapeutic strategies, and clinical manifestations of Huntington's disease

A Shafie, AA Ashour, S Anwar, F Anjum… - Archives of Pharmacal …, 2024 - Springer
Huntington's disease (HD) is a paradigm of a genetic neurodegenerative disorder
characterized by the expansion of CAG repeats in the HTT gene. This extensive review …

[HTML][HTML] Long somatic DNA-repeat expansion drives neurodegeneration in Huntington's disease

RE Handsaker, S Kashin, NM Reed, S Tan, WS Lee… - Cell, 2025 - cell.com
In Huntington's disease (HD), striatal projection neurons (SPNs) degenerate during midlife;
the core biological question involves how the disease-causing DNA repeat (CAG) n in the …

Huntington's disease clinical trials corner: March 2024

C Estevez-Fraga, SJ Tabrizi… - Journal of Huntington's …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In this edition of the Huntington's Disease Clinical Trials Update, we expand on the ongoing
program from VICO Therapeutics and on the recently terminated VIBRANT-HD clinical trials …

The expanding application of antisense oligonucleotides to neurodegenerative diseases

CJ Sumner, TM Miller - The Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2024 - jci.org
Despite investment of billions of research dollars, neurodegenerative diseases have been
largely resistant to therapeutics development because of incomplete understanding of …

Huntington's disease: latest frontiers in therapeutics

J Saade, TA Mestre - Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal-dominant disorder
caused by a pathological expansion of a trinucleotide repeat (CAG) on exon 1 of the …

A review of temporal interference, nanoparticles, ultrasound, gene therapy, and designer receptors for Parkinson disease

AD Currie, JK Wong, MS Okun - npj Parkinson's Disease, 2024 - nature.com
In this review, we summarize preclinical and clinical trials investigating innovative
neuromodulatory approaches for Parkinson disease (PD) motor symptom management. We …

Therapeutic targeting of RNA for neurological and neuromuscular disease

JL Bubenik, MM Scotti, MS Swanson - Genes & Development, 2024 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Neurological and neuromuscular diseases resulting from familial, sporadic, or de novo
mutations have devasting personal, familial, and societal impacts. As the initial product of …

Preventing acute neurotoxicity of CNS therapeutic oligonucleotides with the addition of Ca2+ and Mg2+ in the formulation

R Miller, J Paquette, A Barker, E Sapp… - … Therapy Nucleic Acids, 2024 - cell.com
Oligonucleotide therapeutics (ASOs and siRNAs) have been explored for modulation of
gene expression in the central nervous system (CNS), with several drugs approved and …

[HTML][HTML] Stem cell therapeutics and gene therapy for neurologic disorders

KS Chen, EJ Koubek, SA Sakowski, EL Feldman - Neurotherapeutics, 2024 - Elsevier
Rapid advances in biological knowledge and technological innovation have greatly
advanced the fields of stem cell and gene therapies to combat a broad spectrum of …