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ReviewNeurotoxicity research2012

Role of cell cycle re-entry in neurons: a common apoptotic mechanism of neuronal cell death.

Jaume Folch, Felix Junyent, Ester Verdaguer, Carme Auladell, Javier G Pizarro, Carlos Beas-Zarate, Mercè Pallàs, Antoni Camins

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Review in Neurotoxicity research, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 82 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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82citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

82 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 136 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Meta-Analysis of Transcriptomic Studies of Blood and Six Brain Regions Identifies a Consensus of 15 Cross-Tissue Mechanisms in Alzheimer's Disease and Suggests an Origin of Cross-Study Heterogeneity.American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics · 2025
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  15. DNA Double-Strand Breaks as Pathogenic Lesions in Neurological Disorders.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  18. Genome Integrity and Neurological Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Jaume FolchFacultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas-CIBERNED, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 43201 Reus, Tarragona, Spain.
Felix Junyent
Ester Verdaguer
Carme Auladell
Javier G Pizarro
Carlos Beas-Zarate
Mercè Pallàs
Antoni Camins
Biomedical Research Networking Center on Neurodegenerative Diseases · ESUniversitat de Barcelona · ESUniversidad de Guadalajara · MXUniversidad Rovira i Virgili · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Currently, there is no effective treatment for neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Thus, a major focus of neuroscience research is to examine the mechanisms involved in neuronal loss in order to identify potential drug targets. Recent results indicate that DNA damage and re-entry into the cell cycle may constitute a common pathway in apoptosis in neurological diseases. The role of the cell cycle in such disorders is supported by data on the brain of patients who showed an increase in cell-cycle protein expression. Indeed, studies performed in neuronal cell preparations indicate that oxidative stress could be the main mechanism responsible for cell cycle re-entry. DNA damage and repair after oxidative stress may activate the enzyme ataxia telangiectasia mutated, which is a cell-cycle regulator. Once the cell cycle is activated, the increase in the expression of transcription factor E2F-1 could induce neuronal apoptosis. Furthermore, the potential routes involved in E2F-1 induced apoptosis could be p53-dependent or p53-independent. Under this E2F-1 hypothesis of cell death, multiple mitochondria-dependent pathways may be activated, including caspase and caspase-independent signaling cascades. Finally, given that cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitory drugs have neuroprotective and anti-apoptotic effects in experimental models, their potential application for the treatment of neurological disorders should be taken into account.

Indexed as

AnimalsApoptosisCell CycleCell Cycle ProteinsDNA DamageHumansModels, BiologicalNeurodegenerative DiseasesNeuronsSignal TransductionTumor Suppressor Protein p53Cell Cycle ProteinsTumor Suppressor Protein p53

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PMID21965004
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