Evidence map›Paper›PMID 20967131›Full record

ReviewASN neuro2010

The role of microglia in synaptic stripping and synaptic degeneration: a revised perspective.

V Hugh Perry, Vincent O'Connor

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In one paragraph

Review in ASN neuro, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 80 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
80citing papers in PubMed
7.7field-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

80 citing papers in PubMed, 131 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Article
  3. History of Microglia.Advances in neurobiology · 2024
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  4. Review
  5. Potential Retinal Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
    Review
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  8. ProbioticNutrients · 2022
    Article
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  11. Glutamate and GABA in Microglia-Neuron Cross-Talk in Alzheimer's Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
    Review
  12. Microglia in Neurodegenerative Events-An Initiator or a Significant Other?International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
    Review
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20 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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

V Hugh PerrySchool of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K. vhp@soton.ac.uk
Vincent O'Connor
University of Southampton · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council G0501636Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chronic neurodegenerative diseases of the CNS (central nervous system) are characterized by the loss of neurons. There is, however, growing evidence to show that an early stage of this process involves degeneration of presynaptic terminals prior to the loss of the cell body. Synaptic plasticity in CNS pathology has been associated with microglia and the phenomenon of synaptic stripping. We review here the evidence for the involvement of microglia in synaptic stripping and synapse degeneration and we conclude that this is a case of guilt by association. In disease models of chronic neurodegeneration, there is no evidence that microglia play an active role in either synaptic stripping or synapse degeneration, but the degeneration of the synapse and the envelopment of a degenerating terminal appears to be a neuron autonomous event. We highlight here some of the gaps in our understanding of synapse degeneration in chronic neurodegenerative disease.

Indexed as

AnimalsHumansMicrogliaNerve DegenerationPresynaptic TerminalsSynapsesSynaptic TransmissionALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosischronic neurodegenerationCNS, central nervous systemCSP, cysteine string proteindegenerationER, endoplasmic reticulumhAPP, human amyloid precursor proteinLTP, long-term potentiationmicrogliaNAA, N-acetylaspartatenNOS, neuronal-nitric oxide synthasePNS, peripheral nervous systemPrPSc, abnormal disease-specific conformation of PrPsynapsesynaptic strippingVAMP-2, vesicle-associated membrane protein-2

Identifiers

PMID20967131
PMCPMC2954441
OpenAlexW2126556819

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