Considerations in the preclinical assessment of the safety of antisense oligonucleotides

A Goyenvalle, C Jimenez-Mallebrera… - Nucleic acid …, 2023 - liebertpub.com
The nucleic acid therapeutics field has made tremendous progress in the past decades.
Continuous advances in chemistry and design have led to many successful clinical …

DNAzymes: expanding the potential of nucleic acid therapeutics

LM Larcher, IL Pitout, NP Keegan, RN Veedu… - nucleic acid …, 2023 - liebertpub.com
Nucleic acids drugs have been proven in the clinic as a powerful modality to treat inherited
and acquired diseases. However, key challenges including drug stability, renal clearance …

Acute neurotoxicity of antisense oligonucleotides after intracerebroventricular injection into mouse brain can be predicted from sequence features

PH Hagedorn, JM Brown, A Easton… - nucleic acid …, 2022 - liebertpub.com
Antisense oligonucleotides are a relatively new therapeutic modality and safety evaluation is
still a develo** area of research. We have observed that some oligonucleotides can …

Antisense oligonucleotides and their applications in rare neurological diseases

S McDowall, M Aung-Htut, S Wilton, D Li - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Rare diseases affect almost 500 million people globally, predominantly impacting children
and often leading to significantly impaired quality of life and high treatment costs. While …

Progress in the molecular pathogenesis and nucleic acid therapeutics for Parkinson's disease in the precision medicine era

D Li, FL Mastaglia, S Fletcher… - Medicinal Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Parkinson's disease (PD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative disorders that
manifest various motor and nonmotor symptoms. Although currently available therapies can …

Direct delivery of antisense oligonucleotides to the middle and inner ear improves hearing and balance in Usher mice

JJ Lentz, B Pan, A Ponnath, CM Tran, C Nist-Lund… - Molecular Therapy, 2020 - cell.com
Usher syndrome is a syndromic form of hereditary hearing impairment that includes
sensorineural hearing loss and delayed-onset retinitis pigmentosa (RP). Type 1 Usher …

[HTML][HTML] Antisense oligonucleotide-mediated disruption of HTT caspase-6 cleavage site ameliorates the phenotype of YAC128 Huntington disease mice

EC Kuijper, M Overzier, E Suidgeest… - Neurobiology of …, 2024 - Elsevier
In Huntington disease, cellular toxicity is particularly caused by toxic protein fragments
generated from the mutant huntingtin (HTT) protein. By modifying the HTT protein, we aim to …

[HTML][HTML] Change of intracellular calcium level causes acute neurotoxicity by antisense oligonucleotides via CSF route

C Jia, SSL Mon, Y Yang, M Katsuyama… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2023 - cell.com
Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) are promising therapeutics for intractable central
nervous system (CNS) diseases. For this clinical application, neurotoxicity is one of the …

Partial Restoration of Brain Dystrophin and Behavioral Deficits by Exon Skip** in the Muscular Dystrophy X‐Linked (mdx) Mouse

F Zarrouki, K Relizani, F Bizot, T Tensorer… - Annals of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Duchenne muscular dystrophy is associated with various degrees of cognitive
impairment and behavioral disturbances. Emotional and memory deficits also constitute …

Investigating the impact of delivery routes for exon skip** therapies in the CNS of DMD mouse models

A Saoudi, C Fergus, T Gileadi, F Montanaro… - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Nucleic acid-based therapies have demonstrated great potential for the treatment of
monogenetic diseases, including neurologic disorders. To date, regulatory approval has …