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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine2012

Neurotoxicity of amyloid β-protein: synaptic and network dysfunction.

Lennart Mucke, Dennis J Selkoe

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 586 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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586citing 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

586 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 995 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Lennart MuckeGladstone Institute of Neurological Disease and University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA. lmucke@gladstone.ucsf.edu
Dennis J Selkoe
Brigham and Women's Hospital · USGladstone Institutes · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Evidence for an ever-expanding variety of molecular mediators of amyloid β-protein neurotoxicity (membrane lipids, receptor proteins, channel proteins, second messengers and related signaling cascades, cytoskeletal proteins, inflammatory mediators, etc.) has led to the notion that the binding of hydrophobic Aβ assemblies to cellular membranes triggers multiple effects affecting diverse pathways. It appears unlikely that there are only one or two cognate receptors for neurotoxic forms of Aβ and also that there are just one or two assembly forms of the peptide that induce neuronal dysfunction. Rather, various soluble (diffusible) oligomers of Aβ that may be in dynamic equilibrium with insoluble, fibrillar deposits (amyloid plaques) and that can bind to different components of neuronal and non-neuronal plasma membranes appear to induce complex patterns of synaptic dysfunction and network disorganization that underlie the intermittent but gradually progressive cognitive manifestations of the clinical disorder. Modern analyses of this problem utilize electrophysiology coupled with synaptic biochemistry and behavioral phenotyping of animal models to elucidate the affected circuits and assess the effects of potential therapeutic interventions.

Indexed as

Synaptic TransmissionAlzheimer DiseaseAmyloid beta-PeptidesAnimalsExtracellular SpaceHumansNerve NetNeuronsSynapsesAmyloid beta-Peptides

Identifiers

PMID22762015
PMCPMC3385944
OpenAlexW2126402425

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