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ReviewNature reviews. Neurology2013

Immunotherapy in prion disease.

Yvonne Roettger, Yansheng Du, Michael Bacher, Inga Zerr, Richard Dodel, Jan-Philipp Bach

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Review in Nature reviews. Neurology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 10% 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

21 citing papers in PubMed, 43 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Immunotherapy against Prion Disease.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
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  9. How do PrPPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2017
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  10. Insights from Therapeutic Studies for PrP Prion Disease.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine · 2017
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  14. Peripheral administration of a humanized anti-PrP antibody blocks Alzheimer's disease Aβ synaptotoxicity.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2014
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  16. The immunobiology of prion diseases.Nature reviews. Immunology · 2013
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Yvonne RoettgerDepartment of Neurology, Philipps-University Marburg, Baldingerstrasse, 35043 Marburg, Germany.
Yansheng Du
Michael Bacher
Inga Zerr
Richard Dodel
Jan-Philipp Bach
Philipps University of Marburg · DEIndiana University School of MedicineUniversity of Göttingen · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), also known as prion diseases, describe a group of fatal neurodegenerative disorders affecting both humans and animals. Accumulation of misfolded prion proteins is the pathological hallmark of these disorders; such accumulation occurs in lymphoreticular tissue prior to CNS involvement in scrapie, experimental models and human variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Lymphoreticular accumulation of misfolded prion protein has not been demonstrated in human sporadic or genetic forms of TSE. Once clinical symptoms develop, all prion disorders have a rapidly progressive and lethal course, and no effective therapy exists. In the past 10 years, antibody-based immunotherapy has been considered for other neurodegenerative disorders associated with protein misfolding and, therefore, might also be an effective approach to prevention or treatment of prion disease. Self-tolerance to endogenous prion protein is, however, a major challenge to the development of effective immunotherapy, as is the risk of adverse effects from active immunization. This Review summarizes the evidence that immunization could slow disease progression or increase lifespan in animal models of prion diseases. The therapeutic potential of these strategies in treating patients with prion diseases is also discussed.

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AnimalsHumansImmunization, PassiveImmunotherapyPrion DiseasesPrionsVaccinationPrions

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PMID23247613
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