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ReviewNeurobiology of aging

Inflammation and Alzheimer's disease.

H Akiyama, S Barger, S Barnum, B Bradt, J Bauer, G M Cole, N R Cooper, P Eikelenboom, M Emmerling, B L Fiebich and 27 more

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Review in Neurobiology of aging. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1,895 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

37 authors.

H AkiyamaSun Health Research Institute, 10515 West Santa Fe Drive, P.O. Box 1278, 85372, Sun City, AZ, USA.
S Barger
S Barnum
B Bradt
J Bauer
G M Cole
N R Cooper
P Eikelenboom
M Emmerling
B L Fiebich
C E Finch
S Frautschy
W S Griffin
H Hampel
M Hull
G Landreth
L Lue
R Mrak
I R Mackenzie
P L McGeer
M K O'Banion
J Pachter
G Pasinetti
C Plata-Salaman
J Rogers
R Rydel
Y Shen
W Streit
R Strohmeyer
I Tooyoma
F L Van Muiswinkel
R Veerhuis
D Walker
S Webster
B Wegrzyniak
G Wenk
T Wyss-Coray

Funding

THE APOE-APP AXIS IN ALZHEIMER PATHOGENESISP01AG012411 · NIA · UNIV OF ARKANSAS FOR MED SCIS · PI GRIFFIN, SUE TILTON · 1995 to 2020
$25.0M
NIA NIH HHS P01 AG012411
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inflammation clearly occurs in pathologically vulnerable regions of the Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain, and it does so with the full complexity of local peripheral inflammatory responses. In the periphery, degenerating tissue and the deposition of highly insoluble abnormal materials are classical stimulants of inflammation. Likewise, in the AD brain damaged neurons and neurites and highly insoluble amyloid beta peptide deposits and neurofibrillary tangles provide obvious stimuli for inflammation. Because these stimuli are discrete, microlocalized, and present from early preclinical to terminal stages of AD, local upregulation of complement, cytokines, acute phase reactants, and other inflammatory mediators is also discrete, microlocalized, and chronic. Cumulated over many years, direct and bystander damage from AD inflammatory mechanisms is likely to significantly exacerbate the very pathogenic processes that gave rise to it. Thus, animal models and clinical studies, although still in their infancy, strongly suggest that AD inflammation significantly contributes to AD pathogenesis. By better understanding AD inflammatory and immunoregulatory processes, it should be possible to develop anti-inflammatory approaches that may not cure AD but will likely help slow the progression or delay the onset of this devastating disorder.

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Alzheimer DiseaseBrainHumansInflammation

Identifiers

PMID10858586
PMCPMC3887148

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