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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
A comprehensive genetics-based precision medicine strategy to selectively and permanently inactivate only mutant, not normal allele, could benefit many dominantly …
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 is devastating to patients and their families—with autosomal dominant inheritance, onset typically in the prime of adult life, progressive course, and a combination …
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 …
There are few disease-modifying therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases, but successes on the development of antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) therapeutics for spinal …