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ReviewAlzheimer's research & therapy2014

Truncated and modified amyloid-beta species.

Markus P Kummer, Michael T Heneka

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Review in Alzheimer's research & therapy, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 159 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
159citing papers in PubMed
11.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

159 citing papers in PubMed, 336 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Inducers and modulators of protein aggregation in Alzheimer's disease - Critical tools for understanding the foundations of aggregate structures.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2025
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  13. Inhibition of amyloid beta oligomer accumulation by NU-9: A unifying mechanism for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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99 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Markus P KummerDepartment of Neurology, University Hospital Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, 53127 Bonn, Germany.
Michael T HenekaDepartment of Neurology, University Hospital Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, 53127 Bonn, Germany ; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Holbeinstrasse 15, 53117 Bonn, Germany.
University Hospital Bonn · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease pathology is closely connected to the processing of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) resulting in the formation of a variety of amyloid-beta (Aβ) peptides. They are found as insoluble aggregates in senile plaques, the histopathological hallmark of the disease. These peptides are also found in soluble, mostly monomeric and dimeric, forms in the interstitial and cerebrospinal fluid. Due to the combination of several enzymatic activities during APP processing, Aβ peptides exist in multiple isoforms possessing different N-termini and C-termini. These peptides include, to a certain extent, part of the juxtamembrane and transmembrane domain of APP. Besides differences in size, post-translational modifications of Aβ - including oxidation, phosphorylation, nitration, racemization, isomerization, pyroglutamylation, and glycosylation - generate a plethora of peptides with different physiological and pathological properties that may modulate disease progression.

Identifiers

PMID25031638
PMCPMC4055046
OpenAlexW2126607520

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