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ReviewBiological psychiatry2013

Immunotherapy in Alzheimer's disease: do we have all the pieces of the puzzle?

Marie Sarazin, Guillaume Dorothée, Leonardo Cruz de Souza, Pierre Aucouturier

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Review in Biological psychiatry, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Early diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease: new definitions and challenges.Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999) · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Marie SarazinUniversité Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, France. marie.sarazin@psl.aphp.fr
Guillaume Dorothée
Leonardo Cruz de Souza
Pierre Aucouturier
Sorbonne Université · FRAssistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris · FRUniversité Paris Cité · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Results of Phase III studies involving a large number of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients treated by passive immunotherapy with humanized anti-amyloid β monoclonal antibodies have recently been released. These approaches failed to show a significant clinical benefit in patients with mild to moderate AD. The most considered explanation is that the patients have been treated too late. Whereas targeting patients at asymptomatic stages of the disease is a critical step in the goal of improving the efficacy of such antibody-based strategies, several other important factors should be considered in the development and clinical evaluation of anti-amyloid β immunotherapies, including the as yet poorly understood relationship of AD with the immune system and the importance of cerebral amyloid angiopathy. Better understanding the role of immune responses in AD and their impact on immunotherapy appears essential in the design of alternative or combinatorial immunotherapy approaches in AD, which may imply effectors other than antibodies and even additional antigenic targets.

Indexed as

ImmunotherapyAlzheimer DiseaseAmyloid beta-PeptidesHumansAmyloid beta-PeptidesAlzheimer’s diseaseamyloid betaantibodiescellular immunitycerebral amyloid angiopathyimmunotherapy

Identifiers

PMID23683656
OpenAlexW2026737475

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