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ArticleFrontiers in aging neuroscience2013

β-Amyloid oligomers in aging and Alzheimer's disease.

Kathleen R Zahs, Karen H Ashe

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Article in Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  10. α-Sheet secondary structure in amyloid β-peptide drives aggregation and toxicity in Alzheimer's disease.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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  14. A Novel Aβ B-Cell Epitope Vaccine (rCV01) for Alzheimer's Disease Improved Synaptic and Cognitive Functions in 3 × Tg-AD Mice.Journal of neuroimmune pharmacology : the official journal of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology · 2016
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Kathleen R ZahsN. Bud Grossman Center for Memory Research and Care, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN, USA ; Department of Neurology, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Karen H Ashe

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder, and the most common cause of dementia in the elderly. The cause of AD is not known, but genetic evidence strongly supports the hypothesis that pathological aggregation of the β-amyloid protein (Aβ) triggers the disease process. AD has a long preclinical phase, lasting a decade or more. It is during this preclinical phase, before the irreversible neuron loss that characterizes the dementia phase of the disease, that therapies are most likely to be effective. If we are to block AD during the preclinical phase, we must identify the Aβ species that are present before there are overt symptoms and that are associated with downstream markers of pathology. A specific soluble Aβ assembly, the putative dodecamer "Aβ*56," is present in the brains and cerebrospinal fluid of cognitively intact individuals and correlates with markers of synaptic dysfunction and neuronal injury. This assembly also correlates with memory dysfunction in multiple lines of transgenic mice that model the preclinical phase of AD. We suggest that Aβ*56 has a critical role during the earliest phase of AD and might serve as a molecular trigger of the disease.

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Alzheimer’s diseaseAβ*56oligomerpreclinical Alzheimer’s diseaseβ-amyloid

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PMID23847532
PMCPMC3701119

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