Communications Medicine (Feb 2023)

Nusinersen mitigates neuroinflammation in severe spinal muscular atrophy patients

  • Tommaso Nuzzo,
  • Rosita Russo,
  • Francesco Errico,
  • Adele D’Amico,
  • Awet G. Tewelde,
  • Mariangela Valletta,
  • Amber Hassan,
  • Michele Tosi,
  • Chiara Panicucci,
  • Claudio Bruno,
  • Enrico Bertini,
  • Angela Chambery,
  • Livio Pellizzoni,
  • Alessandro Usiello

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-023-00256-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Nuzzo, Russo, Errico, D’Amico et al. investigate neuroinflammation in forty-eight pediatric spinal muscular atrophy patients before and after Nusinersen treatment. They find signatures of neuroinflammation that are specifically associated with severe disease and show that Nusinersen therapy has neuro-immunomodulatory effects.