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ReviewCNS drugs2008

Neurotrophic factors in neurodegenerative disorders : potential for therapy.

Fabio Fumagalli, Raffaella Molteni, Francesca Calabrese, Paola Francesca Maj, Giorgio Racagni, Marco Andrea Riva

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Review in CNS drugs, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 27% 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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 42 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Neurotrophic natural products: chemistry and biology.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2014
    Review
  6. Article
  7. Depression and risk of developing dementia.Nature reviews. Neurology · 2011
    Review
  8. Article
  9. Review
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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

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Fabio FumagalliDepartment of Pharmacological Sciences, Center of Neuropharmacology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
Raffaella Molteni
Francesca Calabrese
Paola Francesca Maj
Giorgio Racagni
Marco Andrea Riva
University of Milan · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Finding an effective therapy to treat chronic neurodegenerative disorders still represents an unmet and elusive goal, mainly because so many pathogenic variables come into play in these diseases. Recent emphasis has been placed on the role of neurotrophic factors in the aetiology of such disorders because of their role in the survival of different cell phenotypes under various adverse conditions, including neurodegeneration.This review summarizes the current status and the efforts to treat neurodegenerative disorders by the exogenous administration of neurotrophic factors in an attempt to replenish trophic supply, the paucity of which may contribute to the development of the illness. Although promising results have been seen in animal models, this approach still meets disparate and often insurmountable problems in clinical settings, presumably related to the unique nature of the human being.

Indexed as

AnimalsDisease Models, AnimalHumansNerve Growth FactorsNeurodegenerative DiseasesNerve Growth Factors

Identifiers

PMID18998739
OpenAlexW1964230087

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