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ReviewGraefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie2022

Restoring vision using optogenetics without being blind to the risks.

Alexander R Harris, Frederic Gilbert

2 registry-linked trialsOpen access · bronzeAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 17% 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.

NCT02556736 phase1 / phase2completednot on this map

Phase I/IIa, Open-Label, Dose-Escalation Study of Safety and Tolerability of Intravitreal RST-001 in Patients With Advanced Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP)

TypeinterventionalSponsorAbbVieRan2015 to 2024Enrolled14ConditionsAdvanced Retinitis PigmentosaArmsAGN-151597
NCT03326336 phase1 / phase2active not recruitingnot on this map

A Phase 1/2a, Open-Label, Non-Randomized, Dose-Escalation Study to Evaluate the Safety and Tolerability of GS030 in Subjects With Retinitis Pigmentosa

TypeinterventionalSponsorGenSight BiologicsRan2018 to 2027Enrolled10ConditionsNon-syndromic Retinitis PigmentosaArmsGene therapy: GS030-DP AND Medical device: GS030-MD
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alexander R HarrisAikenhead Centre for Medical Discovery, ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia. alexrharris@gmail.com.
Frederic GilbertSchool of Humanities, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia. frederic.gilbert@utas.edu.au.
ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science · AUUniversity of Tasmania · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Retinit is pigmentosa is an incurable degenerative disease that causes loss of light-sensitive cells in the retina and leads to severe vision impairment. The development of optogenetics has created great hype around its potential to treat retinitis pigmentosa by the introduction of light-sensitive proteins into other neural cells in the retina. The first-in-human studies of optogenetic treatment for this disease have recently been reported (NCT02556736 and NCT03326336). The treatment involves irreversible gene therapy and requires access to specially designed goggles to deliver light to the treated eye. These highly innovative and high-profile clinical trials raise numerous ethical issues that must be addressed during the early phases of research and clinical testing to ensure trial participants are treated fairly and can provide appropriate informed consent.

Indexed as

OptogeneticsRetinitis PigmentosaGenetic TherapyHumansRetinaVision, OcularClinical trialEthicsInformed consentOptogeneticsRetinitis pigmentosa

Identifiers

PMID34724112
PMCPMC8558540
OpenAlexW3209831807

What Socratic holds

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Registered trials

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.