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ReviewAlzheimer's research & therapy2017

Stem cell models of Alzheimer's disease: progress and challenges.

Charles Arber, Christopher Lovejoy, Selina Wray

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Review in Alzheimer's research & therapy, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 71 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
71citing papers in PubMed
8.6field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

71 citing papers in PubMed, 151 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Stem Cell Interventions in the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease.Current stem cell research & therapy · 2025
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  8. Research Progress on Neural Cell Culture Systems.Current neuropharmacology · 2025
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  13. Alzheimer's Disease: Cellular and Pharmacological Aspects.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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11 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Charles ArberDepartment of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, 1 Wakefield Street, London, WC1N 1PJ, UK.
Christopher LovejoyDepartment of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, 1 Wakefield Street, London, WC1N 1PJ, UK.
Selina WrayDepartment of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, 1 Wakefield Street, London, WC1N 1PJ, UK. c.lovejoy@ucl.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3062-7050
University College London · GBInstitute of Molecular Medicine · IN

Funding

National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research NC/C013103/1National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research NC/C013201/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A major challenge to our understanding of the molecular mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been the lack of physiologically relevant in vitro models which capture the precise patient genome, in the cell type of interest, with physiological expression levels of the gene(s) of interest. Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology, together with advances in 2D and 3D neuronal differentiation, offers a unique opportunity to overcome this challenge and generate a limitless supply of human neurons for in vitro studies. iPSC-neuron models have been widely employed to model AD and we discuss in this review the progress that has been made to date using patient-derived neurons to recapitulate key aspects of AD pathology and how these models have contributed to a deeper understanding of AD molecular mechanisms, as well as addressing the key challenges posed by using this technology and what progress is being made to overcome these. Finally, we highlight future directions for the use of iPSC-neurons in AD research and highlight the potential value of this technology to neurodegenerative research in the coming years.

Indexed as

Disease Models, AnimalAlzheimer DiseaseAnimalsBatch Cell Culture TechniquesCells, CulturedHumansInduced Pluripotent Stem CellsNeural Stem CellsOrganoidsTissue Engineering3D cerebral organoidsAlzheimer’s diseaseInduced pluripotent stem cellsNeuronal differentiation

Identifiers

PMID28610595
PMCPMC5470327
OpenAlexW2624768339

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