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ReviewNature medicine2010

Missing pieces in the Parkinson's disease puzzle.

Jose A Obeso, Maria C Rodriguez-Oroz, Christopher G Goetz, Concepcion Marin, Jeffrey H Kordower, Manuel Rodriguez, Etienne C Hirsch, Matthew Farrer, Anthony H V Schapira, Glenda Halliday

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Review in Nature medicine, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 320 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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320citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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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

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

320 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  2. An updated analysis with 45,078 subjects confirms the association between SNCA rs11931074 and Parkinson's disease.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2018
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  9. Selective peroxynitrite-mediated protein nitration catalyzed by glyoxalase domain containing protein 4.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  11. Metformin as a potential neuroprotective agent that influence Parkinson's disease.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025
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  18. "Methyl jasmonate: bridging plant defense mechanisms and human therapeutics".Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2025
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260 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Jose A ObesoDepartment of Neurology, Clínica Universitaria and Medical School of Navarra, Neuroscience Centre, Center for Applied Medical Research, Pamplona, Spain. obeso@unav.es
Maria C Rodriguez-Oroz
Christopher G Goetz
Concepcion Marin
Jeffrey H Kordower
Manuel Rodriguez
Etienne C Hirsch
Matthew Farrer
Anthony H V Schapira
Glenda Halliday

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative process characterized by numerous motor and nonmotor clinical manifestations for which effective, mechanism-based treatments remain elusive. Here we discuss a series of critical issues that we think researchers need to address to stand a better chance of solving the different challenges posed by this pathology.

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AnimalsDisease ProgressionHumansLewy BodiesParkinson DiseaseSubstantia Nigra

Identifiers

PMID20495568

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