Evidence map›Paper›PMID 19040415›Full record

ReviewJournal of cellular and molecular medicine2009

Pharmacotherapeutic targets in Alzheimer's disease.

Yif'at Biran, Colin L Masters, Kevin J Barnham, Ashley I Bush, Paul A Adlard

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Review in Journal of cellular and molecular medicine, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
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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

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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

18 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Chameleon sequences in neurodegenerative diseases.Biochemical and biophysical research communications · 2016
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  4. Antioxidant and Anticholinesterase Potential of Six Thymus Species.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2015
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  13. Astrocytes in Alzheimer's disease.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2010
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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

5 authors.

Yif'at BiranThe Oxidation Biology Laboratory, The Mental Health Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
Colin L Masters
Kevin J Barnham
Ashley I Bush
Paul A Adlard

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder which is characterized by an increasing impairment in normal memory and cognitive processes that significantly diminishes a person's daily functioning. Despite decades of research and advances in our understanding of disease aetiology and pathogenesis, there are still no effective disease-modifying drugs available for the treatment of AD. However, numerous compounds are currently undergoing pre-clinical and clinical evaluations. These candidate pharma-cotherapeutics are aimed at various aspects of the disease, such as the microtubule-associated tau-protein, the amyloid-beta(Abeta) peptide and metal ion dyshomeostasis--all of which are involved in the development and progression of AD. We will review the way these pharmacological strategies target the biochemical and clinical features of the disease and the investigational drugs for each category.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseAmino Acid SequenceAmyloid beta-PeptidesAmyloid Precursor Protein SecretasesAnimalsAntibodiesAntioxidantsEnzyme InhibitorsHumansMetalsMolecular Sequence Datatau ProteinsVaccinationAmyloid beta-PeptidesAmyloid Precursor Protein SecretasesAntibodiesAntioxidantsEnzyme InhibitorsMetalstau Proteins

Identifiers

PMID19040415
PMCPMC3823037

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