Cited by 37RNA Interference and Gene DeliveryTreatment of Major DepressionDNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry

Oligonucleotides as therapeutic tools for brain disorders: Focus on major depressive disorder and Parkinson’s disease.

Bortolozzi, Analia, Manashirov, Sharon, Chen, Alon, Artigas, Francesc·2021·Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Abstract

Remarkable advances in understanding the role of RNA in health and disease have expanded considerably in the last decade. RNA is becoming an increasingly important target for therapeutic intervention; therefore, it is critical to develop strategies for therapeutic modulation of RNA function. Oligonucleotides, including antisense oligonucleotide (ASO), small interfering RNA (siRNA), microRNA mimic (miRNA), and anti-microRNA (antagomir) are perhaps the most direct therapeutic strategies for addressing RNA. Among other mechanisms, most oligonucleotide designs involve the formation of a hybrid with RNA that promotes its degradation by activation of endogenous enzymes such as RNase-H (e.g., ASO) or the RISC complex (e.g. RNA interference - RNAi for siRNA and miRNA). However, the use of oligonucleotides for the treatment of brain disorders is seriously compromised by two main limitations: i) how to deliver oligonucleotides to the brain compartment, avoiding the action of peripheral RNAses? and once there, ii) how to target specific neuronal populations? We review the main molecular pathways in major depressive disorder (MDD) and Parkinson's disease (PD), and discuss the challenges associated with the development of novel oligonucleotide therapeutics. We pay special attention to the use of conjugated ligand-oligonucleotide approach in which the oligonucleotide sequence is covalently bound to monoamine transporter inhibitors (e.g. sertraline, reboxetine, indatraline). This strategy allows their selective accumulation in the monoamine neurons of mice and monkeys after their intranasal or intracerebroventricular administration, evoking preclinical changes predictive of a clinical therapeutic action after knocking-down disease-related genes. In addition, recent advances in oligonucleotide therapeutic clinical trials are also reviewed.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2021.107873

Cites

345 of 345 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Bortolozzi, A., Manashirov, S., Chen, A., & Artigas, F.
Affiliations
  • Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ES)
  • Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry (DE)
  • Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ES)
Venue
Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2021-11
Volume
227
Pages
107873
ISSN
0163-7258 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3159813053
Cited by
37
References
345
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 9
FWCI
0.71
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Pharmacology & Therapeutics (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental
  • European Regional Development Fund
  • Government of Spain Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology › Treatment of Major Depression
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
Keywords
oligonucleotide therapeutics, antisense oligonucleotides, siRNA, miRNA mimics, antagomir, RNA interference, major depressive disorder, Parkinson's disease, brain disorders, sertraline, reboxetine, monoaminergic neurons, RNase H, RNA-induced silencing complex, intranasal administration, intracerebroventricular administration, gene knockdown
MeSH terms
Depressive Disorder, Major, Major Depressive Disorder, Humans, Oligonucleotides, Parkinson Disease

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review