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ReviewNeurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics2013

Monitoring autophagy in the treatment of protein aggregate diseases: steps toward identifying autophagic biomarkers.

Conrad C Weihl

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Review in Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. New Avenues for the Treatment of Huntington's Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Conrad C WeihlDepartment of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, PO Box 8111, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St Louis, MO 63110, USA. weihlc@neuro.wustl.edu

Funding

VCP in myopathy and dementiaR01AG031867 · NIA · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI CONRAD C WEIHL · 2009 to 2026
$9.1M
AUTOPHAGIC DYSFUNCTION IN IBMPFD ASSOCIATED MUSCLE DISEASEK02AG042095 · NIA · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI WEIHL, CONRAD C · 2012 to 2016
$671k
NIA NIH HHS K02 AG042095NIA NIH HHS K02AG042095NIA NIH HHS R01 AG031867NIA NIH HHS R01AG031867
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington disease, Parkinson's disease, and Alzheimer's disease are caused by the accumulation of aggregate prone proteins. Pathogenic proteins misfold, aggregate, and escape the cell's normal degradative pathways. Protein aggregates subsequently lead to the toxic disruption of normal cellular processes leading, ultimately, to disease. Several lines of evidence suggest that reducing the burden of these toxic aggregates is therapeutic. One mechanism proposed to facilitate the degradation or clearance of these protein inclusions is macroautophagy. While autophagic treatment paradigms for neurodegeneration are still in the early stages of preclinical development, it is essential to identify and validate methods to measure the activation of autophagy in human patients. These methods will serve as important biomarkers necessary to test compound efficacy and monitor clinical improvement.

Indexed as

Protein FoldingAutophagyBiomarkersHumansNerve Tissue ProteinsNeurodegenerative DiseasesBiomarkersNerve Tissue Proteins

Identifiers

PMID23408309
PMCPMC3701771

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