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ReviewFrontiers in pediatrics2025

Emerging therapeutic strategies for cystinosis.

Paul Goodyer, Elena Torban

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Review in Frontiers in pediatrics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Cystinosis and Cellular Energy Failure: Mitochondria at the Crossroads.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Paul GoodyerDepartment of Pediatrics, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada.
Elena TorbanResearch Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For over 40 years, oral cysteamine has been the mainstay of therapy for cystinosis. While it has been of great benefit, slowing organ deterioration and prolonging life, cysteamine is not well tolerated and may not rescue all pathogenic mechanisms driving the disease. Of late, research groups around the world have been pursuing various novel therapeutic strategies. Here we select just four of many examples - two that address events downstream of the missing Cystinosin protein and two that aim to address the upstream CTNS mutation. Our aim is to update the cystinosis community on some of the exciting work in progress. We have drawn from preliminary reports and oral presentations at cystinosis meetings. While each approach requires further work and critical analysis, the sheer number and variety of these potential therapies is cause for hope.

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cystinosisflavinoidsgene therapymRNApro-drugtherapeutic strategies

Identifiers

PMID40469087
PMCPMC12135878

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