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ArticleNeurobiology of aging2013

Cellular, synaptic, and biochemical features of resilient cognition in Alzheimer's disease.

Steven E Arnold, Natalia Louneva, Kajia Cao, Li-San Wang, Li-Ying Han, David A Wolk, Selamawit Negash, Sue E Leurgans, Julie A Schneider, Aron S Buchman and 2 more

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Article in Neurobiology of aging, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 81 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

81 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Steven E ArnoldDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. steven.arnold@uphs.upenn.edu
Natalia Louneva
Kajia Cao
Li-San Wang
Li-Ying Han
David A Wolk
Selamawit Negash
Sue E Leurgans
Julie A Schneider
Aron S Buchman
Robert S Wilson
David A Bennett

Funding

SUPPLEMENT TO RUSH ALZHEIMERS DISEASE CENTER COREP30AG010161 · NIA · RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI BENNETT, DAVID ALAN · 1991 to 2020
$49.1M
UPenn ADCC Biomarker CoreP30AG010124 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI XIE, SHARON XIANGWEN · 1991 to 2020
$35.1M
RISK FACTORS, PATHOLOGY, AND CLINICAL EXPRESSIONS OF ADR01AG015819 · NIA · RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI BENNETT, DAVID ALAN · 1998 to 2024
$21.4M
Targeted Proteomics of Resilient Cognition in AgingR01AG039478 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI ARNOLD, STEVEN E · 2011 to 2015
$2.5M
NIA NIH HHS P30 AG010124NIA NIH HHS P30 AG010161NIA NIH HHS P30AG10124NIA NIH HHS P30AG10161NIA NIH HHS R01 AG015819NIA NIH HHS R01 AG039478NIA NIH HHS R01AG039478NIA NIH HHS R01AG15819
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although neuritic plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in older adults are correlated with cognitive impairment and severity of dementia, it has long been recognized that the relationship is imperfect, as some people exhibit normal cognition despite high levels of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology. We compared the cellular, synaptic, and biochemical composition of midfrontal cortices in female subjects from the Religious Orders Study who were stratified into three subgroups: (1) pathological AD with normal cognition ("AD-Resilient"), (2) pathological AD with AD-typical dementia ("AD-Dementia"), and (3) pathologically normal with normal cognition ("Normal Comparison"). The AD-Resilient group exhibited preserved densities of synaptophysin-labeled presynaptic terminals and synaptopodin-labeled dendritic spines compared with the AD-Dementia group, and increased densities of glial fibrillary acidic protein astrocytes compared with both the AD-Dementia and Normal Comparison groups. Further, in a discovery-type antibody microarray protein analysis, we identified a number of candidate protein abnormalities that were associated with a particular diagnostic group. These data characterize cellular and synaptic features and identify novel biochemical targets that may be associated with resilient cognitive brain aging in the setting of pathological AD.

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Cognition DisordersAgedAged, 80 and overAlzheimer DiseaseBrainFemaleGlial Fibrillary Acidic ProteinHumansMaleMicroscopy, Electron, TransmissionNerve Tissue ProteinsNeuronsPhosphopyruvate HydrataseProtein Array AnalysisSynapsestau ProteinsGlial Fibrillary Acidic ProteinNerve Tissue ProteinsPhosphopyruvate Hydratasetau Proteins

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PMID22554416
PMCPMC3478410

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