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ReviewScience (New York, N.Y.)2006

100 years and counting: prospects for defeating Alzheimer's disease.

Erik D Roberson, Lennart Mucke

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Review in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 163 papers.

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163citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

163 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

2 authors.

Erik D RobersonGladstone Institute of Neurological Disease and Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
Lennart Mucke

Funding

Tissue Culture CoreP01AG022074 · NIA · J. DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES · PI MUCKE, LENNART · 2003 to 2012
$27.0M
Transgenic Models to Study Alzheimer's DiseaseR37AG011385 · NIA · J. DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES · PI MUCKE, LENNART · 2002 to 2011
$4.9M
TRANSGENIC MODELS TO SUDY ALZHEIMERS DISEASER01AG011385 · NIA · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI MUCKE, LENNART · 1992 to 2017
$3.2M
Mechanisms for Tau Involvement in Alzheimer's DiseaseK08NS054811 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI ROBERSON, ERIK D · 2006 to 2010
$874k
NIA NIH HHS AG011385NIA NIH HHS AG022074NIA NIH HHS P01 AG022074NIA NIH HHS R01 AG011385NIA NIH HHS R37 AG011385NINDS NIH HHS K08 NS054811NINDS NIH HHS NS054811
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This week marks a century since the first description of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Despite approval of several drugs for AD, the disease continues to rob millions of their memories and their lives. Fortunately, many new therapies directly targeting the mechanisms underlying AD are now in the pipeline. Among the investigative AD therapies in clinical trials are several strategies to block pathogenic amyloid-beta peptides and to rescue vulnerable neurons from degeneration. Complementary but less mature strategies aim to prevent the copathogenic effects of apolipoprotein E and the microtubule-associated protein tau. New insights into selective neuronal vulnerability and the link between aging and AD may provide additional entry points for therapeutic interventions. The predicted increase in AD cases over the next few decades makes the development of better treatments a matter of utmost importance and urgency.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseAmyloid beta-PeptidesAnimalsClinical Trials as TopicEnzyme InhibitorsHumansImmunization, PassiveNootropic AgentsVaccinationAmyloid beta-PeptidesEnzyme InhibitorsNootropic Agents

Identifiers

PMID17082448
PMCPMC3544944

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