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ReviewNeurochemical research

Basal forebrain cholinergic dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease--interrelationship with beta-amyloid, inflammation and neurotrophin signaling.

Reinhard Schliebs

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Review in Neurochemical research. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers.

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67citing papers in PubMed
4.9field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

67 citing papers in PubMed, 166 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Reinhard SchliebsPaul Flechsig Institute for Brain Research, Department of Neurochemistry, University of Leipzig, Jahnallee 59, D-04109 Leipzig, Germany. schre@medizin.uni-leipzig.de
Leipzig University · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease, the most common neurodegenerative disorder of senile dementia, is characterized by two major morpho-pathological hallmarks. Deposition of extracellular neuritic, beta-amyloid peptide-containing plaques (senile plaques) in cerebral cortical regions of Alzheimer patients is accompanied by the presence of intracellular neurofibrillary tangles in cerebral pyramidal neurons. Basal forebrain cholinergic dysfunction is also a consistent feature of Alzheimer's disease, which has been suggested to cause, at least partly, the cognitive deficits observed in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Impaired cortical cholinergic neurotransmission may also contribute to beta-amyloid plaque pathology in Alzheimer's disease by affecting expression and processing of the beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP). Vice versa, low level of soluble beta-amyloid has been observed to inhibit cholinergic synaptic function. Deposition of beta-amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's disease is also accompanied by a significant plaque-associated glial up-regulation of interleukin-1, which has been attributed to affect expression and metabolism of APP and to interfere with cholinergic transmission. Understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying the interrelationship between cortical cholinergic dysfunction, beta-amyloid formation and deposition, as well as local inflammatory upregulation, would allow to derive potential treatment strategies to pharmacologically intervene in the disease-causing signaling cascade.

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Signal TransductionAlzheimer DiseaseAmyloid beta-PeptidesHumansNerve Growth FactorNerve Growth FactorsProsencephalonProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalReceptors, CholinergicAmyloid beta-PeptidesNerve Growth FactorNerve Growth FactorsReceptors, Cholinergic

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PMID16187224
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