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ReviewCell stress & chaperones2020

Small heat shock proteins in neurodegenerative diseases.

Leen Vendredy, Elias Adriaenssens, Vincent Timmerman

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Review in Cell stress & chaperones, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

61 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Leen VendredyDepartment of Biomedical Sciences and Institute Born Bunge, Peripheral Neuropathy Research Group, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
Elias AdriaenssensDepartment of Biomedical Sciences and Institute Born Bunge, Peripheral Neuropathy Research Group, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
Vincent TimmermanDepartment of Biomedical Sciences and Institute Born Bunge, Peripheral Neuropathy Research Group, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium. vincent.timmerman@uantwerpen.be.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Small heat shock proteins are ubiquitously expressed chaperones, yet mutations in some of them cause tissue-specific diseases. Here, we will discuss how small heat shock proteins give rise to neurodegenerative disorders themselves while we will also highlight how these proteins can fulfil protective functions in neurodegenerative disorders caused by protein aggregation. The first half of this paper will be focused on how mutations in HSPB1, HSPB3, and HSPB8 are linked to inherited peripheral neuropathies like Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease and distal hereditary motor neuropathy (dHMN). The second part of the paper will discuss how small heat shock proteins are linked to neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's disease.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseCharcot-Marie-Tooth DiseaseHuntington DiseaseParkinson DiseaseHeat-Shock ProteinsHeat-Shock Proteins, SmallHumansMolecular ChaperonesMutationHeat-Shock ProteinsHeat-Shock Proteins, SmallHSPB1 protein, humanHSPB3 protein, humanHSPB8 protein, humanMolecular ChaperonesDiseases of the central nervous systemHereditary peripheral neuropathiesNeurodegenerationProtein aggregationSmall heat shock proteins

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PMID32323160
PMCPMC7332613

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