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ArticleCell metabolism2020

Large-Scale Proteomics Highlights Glial Role in Neurodegeneration.

Alexei Verkhratsky, Robert Zorec

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Article in Cell metabolism, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Astrocytes as Therapeutic Targets in Neurodegenerative Disorders.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  4. Omics-based biomarkers discovery for Alzheimer's disease.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Alexei VerkhratskyFaculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK; Achucarro Center for Neuroscience, IKERBASQUE, 48011 Bilbao, Spain. Electronic address: alexej.verkhratsky@manchester.ac.uk.
Robert ZorecCelica BIOMEDICAL, Tehnološki Park 24, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia; Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology-Molecular Cell Physiology, Institute of Pathophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Zaloška 4, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent quantitative mass spectrometry and coexpression network analysis of postmortem human brain samples identified protein networks responsible for sugar metabolism and function of astrocytes and microglia are altered in Alzheimer's disease and other types of neurodegenerative disorders. Boosting neuroglial function may represent a new strategy for containing neurodegeneration.

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Alzheimer DiseaseMicrogliaAstrocytesBrainEnergy MetabolismHumansProteomics

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.