Huntington disease: new insights into molecular pathogenesis and therapeutic opportunities

SJ Tabrizi, MD Flower, CA Ross, EJ Wild - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2020 - nature.com
Huntington disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disease caused by CAG repeat expansion
in the huntingtin gene (HTT) and involves a complex web of pathogenic mechanisms …

Gene therapy for neurological disorders: progress and prospects

BE Deverman, BM Ravina, KS Bankiewicz… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2018 - nature.com
Adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors are a rapidly emerging gene therapy platform for the
treatment of neurological diseases. In preclinical studies, transgenes encoding therapeutic …

[HTML][HTML] Huntingtin lowering strategies for disease modification in Huntington's disease

SJ Tabrizi, R Ghosh, BR Leavitt - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Huntington's disease is caused by an abnormally expanded CAG repeat expansion in the
HTT gene, which confers a predominant toxic gain of function in the mutant huntingtin …

[HTML][HTML] An orally available, brain penetrant, small molecule lowers huntingtin levels by enhancing pseudoexon inclusion

CG Keller, Y Shin, AM Monteys, N Renaud… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Huntington's Disease (HD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder caused by CAG
trinucleotide repeat expansions in exon 1 of the huntingtin (HTT) gene. The mutant HTT …

[HTML][HTML] siRNA versus miRNA as therapeutics for gene silencing

JKW Lam, MYT Chow, Y Zhang, SWS Leung - Molecular Therapy-Nucleic …, 2015 - cell.com
Discovered a little over two decades ago, small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) and microRNAs
(miRNAs) are noncoding RNAs with important roles in gene regulation. They have recently …

[HTML][HTML] Regulated cell death: discovery, features and implications for neurodegenerative diseases

J Cui, S Zhao, Y Li, D Zhang, B Wang, J Xie… - Cell Communication and …, 2021 - Springer
Regulated cell death (RCD) is a ubiquitous process in living organisms that is essential for
tissue homeostasis or to restore biological balance under stress. Over the decades, various …

Huntington's disease: mechanisms of pathogenesis and therapeutic strategies

M Jimenez-Sanchez, F Licitra… - Cold Spring …, 2017 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Huntington's disease is a late-onset neurodegenerative disease caused by a CAG
trinucleotide repeat in the gene encoding the huntingtin protein. Despite its well-defined …

Current and possible future therapeutic options for Huntington's disease

MW Ferguson, CJ Kennedy… - Journal of central …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal neurodegenerative disease that is characterized
by an excessive number of CAG trinucleotide repeats within the huntingtin gene (HTT). HD …

Adeno-associated virus-based gene therapy for CNS diseases

M Hocquemiller, L Giersch, M Audrain… - Human gene …, 2016 - liebertpub.com
Gene therapy is at the cusp of a revolution for treating a large spectrum of CNS disorders by
providing a durable therapeutic protein via a single administration. Adeno-associated virus …

Clinical features of Huntington's disease

R Ghosh, SJ Tabrizi - Polyglutamine disorders, 2018 - Springer
Huntington's disease (HD) is the most common monogenic neurodegenerative disease and
the commonest genetic dementia in the developed world. With autosomal dominant …