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ReviewRegenerative medicine2025

Developing a gene therapy for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease: progress and challenges.

Marina Stavrou, Alexia Kagiava, Irene Sargiannidou, Kleopas A Kleopa

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Review in Regenerative medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Spectrum of Hereditary Neuropathies in Adult Patients From Serbia.Journal of the peripheral nervous system : JPNS · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Marina StavrouNeuroscience Department, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus.ORCID 0000-0002-3637-6523
Alexia KagiavaNeuroscience Department, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus.ORCID 0000-0002-3903-1299
Irene SargiannidouNeuroscience Department, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus.ORCID 0000-0002-5143-0823
Kleopas A KleopaNeuroscience Department, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus.ORCID 0000-0002-4103-8094

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease refers to a diverse group of inherited and progressive neuropathies for which no approved treatments currently exist and management strategies remain limited to symptomatic interventions. Recent advances in gene therapy offer promising strategies to address CMT neuropathies. This review highlights key progress in developing gene silencing, replacement, or editing therapies for representative CMT types, and summarizes preclinical successes and translational challenges. Delivery technologies such as AAV vectors and nanoparticle systems have shown promise, but delivery limitations across the blood-nerve and -brain barriers, immune reactions and other potential toxicities, and scalability remain challenging. Advancing into the era of CMT treatments requires clinical readiness, which depends on optimizing therapeutic delivery, enhancing safety, and developing biomarkers for treatment monitoring.

Indexed as

Charcot-Marie-Tooth DiseaseGenetic TherapyAnimalsGene EditingGenetic VectorsGene Transfer TechniquesHumansCharcot-Marie-Tooth diseaseclinical trial readinessgene therapyinherited neuropathypreclinical testing

Identifiers

PMID40219666
PMCPMC12118428

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