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Response of aged parkinsonian monkeys to in vivo gene transfer of GDNF

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Intracerebroventricular Injection of Adeno-Associated Virus 6 and 9 Vectors for Cell Type-Specific Transgene Expression in the Spinal Cord

Patrick Aebischer, Bernard Schneider, Christopher Towne, Veronica Setola, Elisabeth Anne Dirren

In the context of motoneuron diseases, gene delivery as an experimental or therapeutic approach is hindered by the challenge to specifically target cell populations that are widely distributed along the spinal cord. Further complicating the task, transgene ...

Mary Ann Liebert2014

Parkinson's disease-linked mutations in VPS35 induce dopaminergic neurodegeneration

Liliane Glauser, Bernard Schneider, Darren Moore, Elpida Tsika, Aris Nikolaos Fiser, Guillaume Daniel

Mutations in the vacuolar protein sorting 35 homolog (VPS35) gene at the PARK17 locus, encoding a key component of the retromer complex, were recently identified as a new cause of late-onset, autosomal dominant Parkinson's disease (PD). Here we explore the ...

Oxford University Press2014

Long-lasting fibrin matrices ensure stable and functional angiogenesis by highly tunable, sustained delivery of recombinant VEGF(164)

Mikaël Martino, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Kristen Lorentz, Elena Groppa, Martin Ehrbar, Veronica Sacchi

Clinical trials of therapeutic angiogenesis by vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) gene delivery failed to show efficacy. Major challenges include the need to precisely control in vivo distribution of growth factor dose and duration of expression. Re ...

National Academy of Sciences2014

Dynamic brain networks explored by structure-revealing methods

Nora Leonardi

The human brain is a complex system able to continuously adapt. How and where brain activity is modulated by behavior can be studied with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a non-invasive neuroimaging technique with excellent spatial resolution ...

EPFL2014

Synergistic Effects of GDNF and VEGF on Lifespan and Disease Progression in a Familial ALS Rat Model

Patrick Aebischer, Michaël Meyer

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease characterized by the progressive loss of motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord. We have recently shown that human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) modified to release glial cell li ...

Nature Publishing Group2013

Direct and Retrograde Transduction of Nigral Neurons with AAV6, 8, and 9 and Intraneuronal Persistence of Viral Particles

Patrick Aebischer, Bernard Schneider

Recombinant adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors of serotypes 6, 8, and 9 were characterized as tools for gene delivery to dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra for future gene therapeutic applications in Parkinson's disease. While vectors of all th ...

Mary Ann Liebert2013

An Adeno-Associated Virus-Based Intracellular Sensor of Pathological Nuclear Factor-kappa B Activation for Disease-Inducible Gene Transfer

Elias Georges Gebara

Stimulation of resident cells by NF-kappa B activating cytokines is a central element of inflammatory and degenerative disorders of the central nervous system (CNS). This disease-mediated NF-kappa B activation could be used to drive transgene expression se ...

Public Library Science2013

Sparsity-Promoting Spatiotemporal Regularization for Data Mining in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Fikret Isik Karahanoglu

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has opened unprecedented avenues to observe the human brain non-invasively. In particular, for about two decades, functional MRI (fMRI) has enabled to monitor brain function using the blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) con ...

EPFL2013

Parkinson's Disease: Gene Therapies

Patrick Aebischer, Bernard Schneider, Philippe Guillaume Coune

With the recent development of effective gene delivery systems, gene therapy for the central nervous system is finding novel applications. Here, we review existing viral vectors and discuss gene therapy strategies that have been proposed for Parkinson's di ...

Cold Spring Harbor Lab Press, Publications Dept2012