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ReviewJournal of neuroimmune pharmacology : the official journal of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology2009

Immune-directed gene therapeutic development for Alzheimer's, prion, and Parkinson's diseases.

Kathleen A Maguire-Zeiss, Howard J Federoff

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Review in Journal of neuroimmune pharmacology : the official journal of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 44% of its field
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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Brain interleukins and Alzheimer's disease.Metabolic brain disease · 2025
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  2. Article
  3. Parkinson's disease.Sub-cellular biochemistry · 2012
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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 at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kathleen A Maguire-ZeissDepartment of Neuroscience, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20057, USA. km445@georgetown.edu
Howard J Federoff
Georgetown University Medical Center · US

Funding

Toxicant, oxidative injury, dopamine & synuclein in PDR01ES014470 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI MAGUIRE-ZEISS, KATHLEEN ANNE · 2007 to 2011
$1.7M
NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES014470NIEHS NIH HHS R01ES014470
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The development of novel immune-based therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases is an area of intense focus. Neurodegenerative diseases represent a particular challenge since in many cases the onset of symptoms occurs after considerable degeneration has ensued. Based on human genetic and histopathological evidence from patients with neurodegenerative diseases, animal models that recapitulate specific pathologic features have been developed. Utilizing these animal models in combination with viral vector-based gene therapeutics, specific epochs of disease can be targeted. One common feature of several neurodegenerative diseases is misfolded proteins. The mechanism by which these altered protein conformers lead to neurodegeneration is not completely understood but much effort has been put forward to either degrade aberrant protein or prevent the formation of misfolded conformers. In this review, we will summarize work that employs viral vector gene therapeutics to modulate the brain's response to misfolded proteins with a specific focus on neurodegeneration.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseAntibodiesGenetic TherapyHumansImmunization, PassiveImmunotherapyParkinson DiseasePrion DiseasesAntibodies

Identifiers

PMID18931916
PMCPMC2879638
OpenAlexW1978101850

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Registered trials

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