title: Nanoparticles for retinal gene therapy.
abstract: Ocular gene therapy is becoming a well-established field. Viral gene therapies for the treatment of Leber's congentinal amaurosis (LCA) are in clinical trials, and many other gene therapy approaches are being rapidly developed for application to diverse ophthalmic pathologies. Of late, development of non-viral gene therapies has been an area of intense focus and one technology, polymer-compacted DNA nanoparticles, is especially promising. However, development of pharmaceutically and clinically viable therapeutics depends not only on having an effective and safe vector but also on a practical treatment strategy. Inherited retinal pathologies are caused by mutations in over 220 genes, some of which contain over 200 individual disease-causing mutations, which are individually very rare. This review will focus on both the progress and future of nanoparticles and also on what will be required to make them relevant ocular pharmaceutics.
authors.affiliation: University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Department of Cell Biology, BMSB 781, 940 Stanton L. Young Blvd, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA.
authors.forename: Shannon M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Conley
authors.forename: Muna I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Naash
mesh_terms: D015316:Genetic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D053758:Nanoparticles / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D012164:Retinal Diseases / Q000628:therapy*
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