The menace of severe adverse events and deaths associated with viral gene therapy and its potential solution

A Kachanov, A Kostyusheva, S Brezgin… - Medicinal Research …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past decade, in vivo gene replacement therapy has significantly advanced,
resulting in market approval of numerous therapeutics predominantly relying on adeno …

Advances of Genome Editing with CRISPR/Cas9 in Neurodegeneration: The Right Path towards Therapy

A Klinkovskij, M Shepelev, Y Isaakyan, D Aniskin… - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
The rate of neurodegenerative disorders (NDDs) is rising rapidly as the world's population
ages. Conditions such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), and …

[HTML][HTML] Rescue of a familial dysautonomia mouse model by AAV9-Exon-specific U1 snRNA

G Romano, F Riccardi, E Bussani, S Vodret… - The American Journal of …, 2022 - cell.com
Familial dysautonomia (FD) is a currently untreatable, neurodegenerative disease caused
by a splicing mutation (c. 2204+ 6T> C) that causes skipping of exon 20 of the elongator …

Repeat or single-dose lentiviral vector administration to mouse lungs? It's all about the timing

M Donnelley, P Cmielewski, E Knight, C Carpentieri… - Gene Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Lentiviral vectors are attractive delivery vehicles for cystic fibrosis gene therapy owing to
their low immunogenicity and ability to integrate into the host cell genome, thereby …

First-in-patient dose prediction for adeno-associated virus-mediated hemophilia gene therapy using allometric scaling

P Zou - Molecular Pharmaceutics, 2022 - ACS Publications
In this study, the author compared the performance of two allometric scaling approaches and
body-weight-based dose conversion approach for first-in-patient (FIP) dose prediction for …

Whole-body disposition and physiologically based pharmacokinetic modeling of adeno-associated viruses and the transgene product

S Liu, EA Chowdhury, V Xu, A Jerez… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
To facilitate model-informed drug development (MIDD) of adeno-associated virus (AAV)
therapy, here we have developed a physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) model …

Efficient Polymeric Nanoparticle Gene Delivery Enabled Via Tri-and Tetrafunctional Branching

EE Rocher, KM Luly, SY Tzeng, JC Sunshine… - …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Poly (β-amino ester)(PBAE) nanoparticles (NPs) show great promise for nonviral gene
delivery. Recent studies suggest branched PBAEs (BPBAEs) offer advantages over linear …

Oligonucleotide therapies for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis

S Li, F Xiong, S Zhang, J Liu, G Gao, J Xie… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2024 - cell.com
Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis represents a severe disease subtype of nonalcoholic fatty liver
disease which is thought to be highly associated with systemic metabolic abnormalities. It is …

Mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIB: a current review and exploration of the AAV therapy landscape

CJ Rouse, VN Jensen… - Neural Regeneration …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Mucopolysaccharidoses type IIIB is a rare genetic disorder caused by mutations in the gene
that encodes for N-acetyl-alpha-glucosaminidase. This results in the aggregation of heparan …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting stroma and tumor, silencing galectin 1 treats orthotopic mouse hepatocellular carcinoma

T Setayesh, Y Hu, F Vaziri, X Chen, J Lai, D Wei… - … Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2024 - Elsevier
This study examines inhibiting galectin 1 (Gal1) as a treatment option for hepatocellular
carcinoma (HCC). Gal1 has immunosuppressive and cancer-promoting roles. Our data …