Emerging therapeutics in Huntington's disease

INTRODUCTION: Huntington's disease is a neurodegenerative disease that is characterized by motor dysfunction, behavioral/psychiatric symptoms, and cognitive impairment. Because of the lack of availability of curative or disease modifying treatments, much of clinical practice in HD care to date has focused on symptomatic treatment. Recent work has created optimism surrounding possible emerging disease modifying therapeutics. HD is a developing therapeutic field with diverse and promising emerging therapies.

AREAS COVERED: A PubMed literature review was completed to discover pertinent reviews and analyses. ClinicalTrials.gov was referenced to find updated information about ongoing and planned trials. Lastly, because of the rapidly evolving nature of HD treatments, drug manufacturer websites and press releases were reviewed to provide current information surrounding recently reported trial results.

EXPERT OPINION: Recent setbacks involving antisense oligonucleotide research should not diminish enthusiasm and hope for the many other novel therapies currently being pursued. We remain optimistic about the many promising emerging therapies for HD, and we expect that growing knowledge about the pathophysiology of the underlying disease and constant advances in biotechnology will lead to therapies that have a meaningful impact in the lives of patients, their families, and those who care for them.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:26

Enthalten in:

Expert opinion on emerging drugs - 26(2021), 3 vom: 01. Sept., Seite 295-302

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wiggins, Robert [VerfasserIn]
Feigin, Andrew [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

ASO
Antisense oligonucleotides
Chorea
HD
HTT
Huntingtin
Huntington’s disease
Huntington disease
Journal Article
Oligonucleotides, Antisense
Review

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 26.01.2022

Date Revised 31.05.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/14728214.2021.1962285

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM328645079