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ReviewBrain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland)2017

Inflammasomes as therapeutic targets for Alzheimer's disease.

Claire S White, Catherine B Lawrence, David Brough, Jack Rivers-Auty

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Review in Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
68citing papers in PubMed
5.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

68 citing papers in PubMed, 132 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Claire S WhiteFaculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, AV Hill Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PT, UK.
Catherine B LawrenceFaculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, AV Hill Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PT, UK.
David BroughFaculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, AV Hill Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PT, UK.
Jack Rivers-AutyFaculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, AV Hill Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PT, UK.
University of Manchester · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of progressive dementia, typified initially by short term memory deficits which develop into a dramatic global cognitive decline. The classical hall marks of Alzheimer's disease include the accumulation of amyloid oligomers and fibrils, and the intracellular formation of neurofibrillary tangles of hyperphosphorylated tau. It is now clear that inflammation also plays a central role in the pathogenesis of the disease through a number of neurotoxic mechanisms. Microglia are the key immune regulators of the CNS which detect amyloidopathy through cell surface and cytosolic pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) and respond by initiating inflammation through the secretion of cytokines such as interleukin-1β (IL-1β). Inflammasomes, which regulate IL-1β release, are formed following activation of cytosolic PRRs, and using genetic and pharmacological approaches, NLRP3 and NLRP1 inflammasomes have been found to be integral in pathogenic neuroinflammation in animal models of Alzheimer's disease. Therefore, the inflammasomes are very promising novel pharmacological targets which merit further research in the continued endeavor for efficacious therapeutics for Alzheimer's disease.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseAmyloid beta-PeptidesAnimalsBrainCognitive DysfunctionCytokinesDisease Models, AnimalHumansInflammasomesInflammationInterleukin-18Interleukin-1betaMicrogliaNeurofibrillary TanglesNLR Family, Pyrin Domain-Containing 3 ProteinAmyloid beta-PeptidesCytokinesInflammasomesInterleukin-18Interleukin-1betaNLR Family, Pyrin Domain-Containing 3 ProteinAlzheimer's diseaseinflammasomesinflammation

Identifiers

PMID28009077
PMCPMC8029266
OpenAlexW2561790794

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