Antisense oligonucleotides: the next frontier for treatment of neurological disorders

C Rinaldi, MJA Wood - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2018 - nature.com
Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) were first discovered to influence RNA processing and
modulate protein expression over two decades ago; however, progress translating these …

Antisense oligonucleotide therapies for neurodegenerative diseases

CF Bennett, AR Krainer… - Annual review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Antisense oligonucleotides represent a novel therapeutic platform for the discovery of
medicines that have the potential to treat most neurodegenerative diseases. Antisense …

[HTML][HTML] CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing ameliorates neurotoxicity in mouse model of Huntington's disease

S Yang, R Chang, H Yang, T Zhao… - The Journal of …, 2017 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Huntington's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by a polyglutamine repeat in
the Huntingtin gene (HTT). Although suppressing the expression of mutant HTT (mHTT) has …

Antisense oligonucleotide therapy for spinocerebellar ataxia type 2

DR Scoles, P Meera, MD Schneider, S Paul… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
There are no disease-modifying treatments for adult human neurodegenerative diseases.
Here we test RNA-targeted therapies in two mouse models of spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 …

Sustained therapeutic reversal of Huntington's disease by transient repression of huntingtin synthesis

HB Kordasiewicz, LM Stanek, EV Wancewicz, C Mazur… - Neuron, 2012 - cell.com
The primary cause of Huntington's disease (HD) is expression of huntingtin with a
polyglutamine expansion. Despite an absence of consensus on the mechanism (s) of …

Permanent inactivation of Huntington's disease mutation by personalized allele-specific CRISPR/Cas9

JW Shin, KH Kim, MJ Chao, RS Atwal… - Human molecular …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
A comprehensive genetics-based precision medicine strategy to selectively and
permanently inactivate only mutant, not normal allele, could benefit many dominantly …

Antisense oligonucleotide therapy: from design to the Huntington disease clinic

ME Rook, AL Southwell - BioDrugs, 2022 - Springer
Huntington disease (HD) is a fatal progressive neurodegenerative disorder caused by an
inherited mutation in the huntingtin (HTT) gene, which encodes mutant HTT protein. Though …

Huntington disease

GP Bates, R Dorsey, JF Gusella, MR Hayden… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2015 - nature.com
Huntington disease is devastating to patients and their families—with autosomal dominant
inheritance, onset typically in the prime of adult life, progressive course, and a combination …

Targeting long non-coding RNA to therapeutically upregulate gene expression

C Wahlestedt - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2013 - nature.com
The majority of currently available drugs and tool compounds exhibit an inhibitory
mechanism of action and there is a relative lack of pharmaceutical agents that are capable …

Antisense oligonucleotides: A primer

DR Scoles, EV Minikel, SM Pulst - Neurology: Genetics, 2019 - AAN Enterprises
There are few disease-modifying therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases, but
successes on the development of antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) therapeutics for spinal …