TY - JOUR
T1 - Recent advances in early-onset severe retinal degeneration
T2 - more than just basic research
AU - Preising, Markus N
AU - Heegaard, Steffen
PY - 2004/2
Y1 - 2004/2
N2 - Successful treatment of early-onset sever retinal degeneration (EOSRD) in an animal model of the disease has provided the first proof-o-principle for retinal gene therapy of higher mammals. Currently, large sets of DNA samples are screened to identify patients with Leber's congenital amaurosis (LCA) carrying mutations in RPE65 as possible candidates for gene therapy trials. Research into EOSRD and LCA aims to identify the function of proteins involved or phenotypic changes upon mutation. These data will be used to describe the disease phenotype and identify parameters that can predict the outcome of gene therapy trials.
AB - Successful treatment of early-onset sever retinal degeneration (EOSRD) in an animal model of the disease has provided the first proof-o-principle for retinal gene therapy of higher mammals. Currently, large sets of DNA samples are screened to identify patients with Leber's congenital amaurosis (LCA) carrying mutations in RPE65 as possible candidates for gene therapy trials. Research into EOSRD and LCA aims to identify the function of proteins involved or phenotypic changes upon mutation. These data will be used to describe the disease phenotype and identify parameters that can predict the outcome of gene therapy trials.
KW - Acyltransferases/genetics
KW - Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing
KW - Animals
KW - Carrier Proteins/genetics
KW - Cytoskeletal Proteins
KW - Disease Models, Animal
KW - Eye Proteins
KW - Genetic Predisposition to Disease/genetics
KW - Genetic Therapy
KW - Guanylate Cyclase/genetics
KW - Homeodomain Proteins/genetics
KW - Humans
KW - Mice
KW - Mice, Knockout
KW - Mutation/genetics
KW - Optic Atrophy, Hereditary, Leber/genetics
KW - Photoreceptor Cells, Vertebrate/metabolism
KW - Pigment Epithelium of Eye/metabolism
KW - Proteins/genetics
KW - Receptors, Cell Surface/genetics
KW - Retinal Degeneration/genetics
KW - Trans-Activators/genetics
KW - cis-trans-Isomerases
U2 - 10.1016/j.molmed.2003.12.002
DO - 10.1016/j.molmed.2003.12.002
M3 - Review
C2 - 15106616
SN - 1471-4914
VL - 10
SP - 51
EP - 54
JO - Trends in Molecular Medicine
JF - Trends in Molecular Medicine
IS - 2
ER -