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ReviewOxidative medicine and cellular longevity2013

Phosphorylation of tau protein as the link between oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, and connectivity failure: implications for Alzheimer's disease.

Siddhartha Mondragón-Rodríguez, George Perry, Xiongwei Zhu, Paula I Moreira, Mariana C Acevedo-Aquino, Sylvain Williams

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Review in Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 89 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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89citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

89 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 151 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Siddhartha Mondragón-RodríguezDouglas Hospital Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada H4H 1R3. sidmonrod@gmail.com
George Perry
Xiongwei Zhu
Paula I Moreira
Mariana C Acevedo-Aquino
Sylvain Williams
Douglas Mental Health University Institute · CACase Western Reserve University · USThe University of Texas at San Antonio · USUniversité de Montréal · CAUniversity of Coimbra · PT

Funding

RCMI Center for Interdiscplinary Health Research CIHRG12MD007591 · NIMHD · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SAN ANTONIO · PI PERRY, GEORGE · 2012 to 2016
$10.4M
CIHRNIMHD NIH HHS G12 MD007591NIMHD NIH HHS G12MD007591)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is defined by the concurrence of abnormal aggregates composed of phosphorylated tau protein and of abnormal cellular changes including neurite degeneration, loss of neurons, and loss of cognitive functions. While a number of mechanisms have been implicated in this complex disease, oxidative stress remains one of the earliest and strongest events related to disease progression. However, the mechanism that links oxidative stress and cognitive decline remains elusive. Here, we propose that phosphorylated tau protein could be playing the role of potential connector and, therefore, that a combined therapy involving antioxidants and check points for synaptic plasticity during early stages of the disease could become a viable therapeutic option for AD treatment.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseHumansMitochondriaOxidative Stresstau Proteinstau Proteins

Identifiers

PMID23936615
PMCPMC3723250
OpenAlexW2066060763

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