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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2021

What, When and How to Measure-Peripheral Biomarkers in Therapy of Huntington's Disease.

Lukasz Przybyl, Magdalena Wozna-Wysocka, Emilia Kozlowska, Agnieszka Fiszer

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
23citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis of Biofluid Markers for Huntington's Disease.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2025
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  12. Peripheral Biomarkers in Manifest and Premanifest Huntington's Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  19. A Glimpse of Molecular Biomarkers in Huntington's Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  20. Rehabilitation outcomes in Huntington disease patients with low body mass index.Journal of musculoskeletal & neuronal interactions · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lukasz PrzybylLaboratory of Mammalian Model Organisms, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, 61-704 Poznan, Poland.
Magdalena Wozna-WysockaDepartment of Medical Biotechnology, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, 61-704 Poznan, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-2993-7000
Emilia KozlowskaDepartment of Medical Biotechnology, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, 61-704 Poznan, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-4742-5001
Agnieszka FiszerDepartment of Medical Biotechnology, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, 61-704 Poznan, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-7829-1926
Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences · PL

Funding

Narodowe Centrum Nauki 2015/17/D/NZ5/03443Narodowe Centrum Nauki 2015/17/N/NZ2/01916
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Among the main challenges in further advancing therapeutic strategies for Huntington's disease (HD) is the development of biomarkers which must be applied to assess the efficiency of the treatment. HD is a dreadful neurodegenerative disorder which has its source of pathogenesis in the central nervous system (CNS) but is reflected by symptoms in the periphery. Visible symptoms include motor deficits and slight changes in peripheral tissues, which can be used as hallmarks for prognosis of the course of HD, e.g., the onset of the disease symptoms. Knowing how the pathology develops in the context of whole organisms is crucial for the development of therapy which would be the most beneficial for patients, as well as for proposing appropriate biomarkers to monitor disease progression and/or efficiency of treatment. We focus here on molecular peripheral biomarkers which could be used as a measurable outcome of potential therapy. We present and discuss a list of wet biomarkers which have been proposed in recent years to measure pre- and postsymptomatic HD. Interestingly, investigation of peripheral biomarkers in HD can unravel new aspects of the disease pathogenesis. This especially refers to inflammatory proteins or specific immune cells which attract scientific attention in neurodegenerative disorders.

Indexed as

BiomarkersClinical Decision-MakingDisease ManagementDisease ProgressionHumansHuntingtin ProteinHuntington DiseaseMutationOxidative StressPrognosisRNA, MessengerBiomarkersHTT protein, humanHuntingtin ProteinRNA, MessengerbiomarkersbloodHuntington’s diseaseimmunemicrobiomemiRNAperipherytherapy

Identifiers

PMID33557131
PMCPMC7913877
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