Plasticity of the human visual system after retinal gene therapy in patients with Leber's congenital amaurosis.

Abstract:

:Much of our knowledge of the mechanisms underlying plasticity in the visual cortex in response to visual impairment, vision restoration, and environmental interactions comes from animal studies. We evaluated human brain plasticity in a group of patients with Leber's congenital amaurosis (LCA), who regained vision through gene therapy. Using non-invasive multimodal neuroimaging methods, we demonstrated that reversing blindness with gene therapy promoted long-term structural plasticity in the visual pathways emanating from the treated retina of LCA patients. The data revealed improvements and normalization along the visual fibers corresponding to the site of retinal injection of the gene therapy vector carrying the therapeutic gene in the treated eye compared to the visual pathway for the untreated eye of LCA patients. After gene therapy, the primary visual pathways (for example, geniculostriate fibers) in the treated retina were similar to those of sighted control subjects, whereas the primary visual pathways of the untreated retina continued to deteriorate. Our results suggest that visual experience, enhanced by gene therapy, may be responsible for the reorganization and maturation of synaptic connectivity in the visual pathways of the treated eye in LCA patients. The interactions between the eye and the brain enabled improved and sustained long-term visual function in patients with LCA after gene therapy.

journal_name

Sci Transl Med

authors

Ashtari M,Zhang H,Cook PA,Cyckowski LL,Shindler KS,Marshall KA,Aravand P,Vossough A,Gee JC,Maguire AM,Baker CI,Bennett J

doi

10.1126/scitranslmed.aaa8791

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2015-07-15 00:00:00

pages

296ra110

issue

296

eissn

1946-6234

issn

1946-6242

pii

7/296/296ra110

journal_volume

7

pub_type

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