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The Role of the Human Visual Cortex in Assessment of the Long-Term Durability of Retinal Gene Therapy in Follow-on RPE65 Clinical Trial Patients.
Ophthalmology - 1 Jun 2017
Ashtari Manzar, Nikonova Elena S, Marshall Kathleen A, Young Gloria J, Aravand Puya, Pan Wei, Ying Gui-Shuang, Willett Aimee E, Mahmoudian Mani, Maguire Albert M, Bennett Jean
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PURPOSE: Gene therapy (GT) has offered immense hope to individuals who are visually impaired because of RPE65 mutations. Although GT has shown great success in clinical trials enrolling these individuals, evidence for stability and durability of this treatment over time is still unknown. Herein we explored the value of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) as an objective measure to assess independently...
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