Evidence map›Paper›PMID 19406747›Full record

ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2009

Insulin receptor dysfunction impairs cellular clearance of neurotoxic oligomeric a{beta}.

Wei-Qin Zhao, Pascale N Lacor, Hui Chen, Mary P Lambert, Michael J Quon, Grant A Krafft, William L Klein

Open access · hybridAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 90 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
90citing papers in PubMed
6.4field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

90 citing papers in PubMed, 159 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Review
  3. Review
  4. Review
  5. Review
  6. Review
  7. Associations Between Diabetes Mellitus and Neurodegenerative Diseases.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
    Review
  8. Review
  9. Review
  10. Review
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Review
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Review
  17. Article
  18. Anti-Amyloid Immunotherapies for Alzheimer's Disease: A 2023 Clinical Update.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2023
    Review
  19. A Pathophysiological Intersection of Diabetes and Alzheimer's Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
    Review
  20. Review

30 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Wei-Qin ZhaoDepartment of Neurobiology and Physiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA. wei-qin_zhao@merck.com
Pascale N Lacor
Hui Chen
Mary P Lambert
Michael J Quon
Grant A Krafft
William L Klein
Northwestern University · USNational Institutes of Health · USAcumen Pharmaceuticals (United States) · USBlanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute · US

Funding

Insulin Stimulated Production Of Nitric Oxide In Vascular EndotheliumZIAAT000001 · NCCIH · NATIONAL CENTER FOR COMPLEMENTARY & INTEGRATIVE HEALTH · PI QUON, MICHAEL J. · 2009 to 2010
$2.9M
Abeta oligomers (ADDLs)in Alzheimers Disease pathologyR01AG022547 · NIA · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI KLEIN, WILLIAM L · 2003 to 2010
$1.9M
Insulin Signaling And Gene Regulation In Transfected Adipose CellsZIAAT000002 · NCCIH · NATIONAL CENTER FOR COMPLEMENTARY & INTEGRATIVE HEALTH · PI QUON, MICHAEL J. · 2009 to 2010
$620k
Intramural NIH HHSNIA NIH HHS R01 AG022547NIA NIH HHS R01-AG022547
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accumulation of amyloid beta (Abeta) oligomers in the brain is toxic to synapses and may play an important role in memory loss in Alzheimer disease. However, how these toxins are built up in the brain is not understood. In this study we investigate whether impairments of insulin and insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) receptors play a role in aggregation of Abeta. Using primary neuronal culture and immortal cell line models, we show that expression of normal insulin or IGF-1 receptors confers cells with abilities to reduce exogenously applied Abeta oligomers (also known as ADDLs) to monomers. In contrast, transfection of malfunctioning human insulin receptor mutants, identified originally from patient with insulin resistance syndrome, or inhibition of insulin and IGF-1 receptors via pharmacological reagents increases ADDL levels by exacerbating their aggregation. In healthy cells, activation of insulin and IGF-1 receptor reduces the extracellular ADDLs applied to cells via seemingly the insulin-degrading enzyme activity. Although insulin triggers ADDL internalization, IGF-1 appears to keep ADDLs on the cell surface. Nevertheless, both insulin and IGF-1 reduce ADDL binding, protect synapses from ADDL synaptotoxic effects, and prevent the ADDL-induced surface insulin receptor loss. Our results suggest that dysfunctions of brain insulin and IGF-1 receptors contribute to Abeta aggregation and subsequent synaptic loss.

Indexed as

Amyloid beta-PeptidesAnimalsAntigens, CDBrainHumansInsulinInsulin-Like Growth Factor IInsulin ResistanceMiceModels, BiologicalMutationNeuronsNeurotoxinsNIH 3T3 CellsRatsReceptor, InsulinAmyloid beta-PeptidesAntigens, CDINSR protein, humanInsulinInsulin-Like Growth Factor INeurotoxinsReceptor, Insulin

Identifiers

PMID19406747
PMCPMC2707198
OpenAlexW1968530575

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.