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ReviewAlzheimer's research & therapy2014

Imaging as a biomarker in drug discovery for Alzheimer's disease: is MRI a suitable technology?

Emilio Merlo Pich, Andreas Jeromin, Giovanni B Frisoni, Derek Hill, Andrew Lockhart, Mark E Schmidt, Martin R Turner, Stefania Mondello, William Z Potter

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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 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
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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

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Neuroimaging Endpoints in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2017
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  14. Changing Landscapes in the Neuroimaging of Dementia.Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology
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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

9 authors.

Emilio Merlo PichClinical Imaging, Neuroscience DTA pRED, F. Hoffman-La Roche, Grenzacherstrasse 124 CH-4070, Basel, CH, Switzerland.
Andreas JerominAtlantic Biomarkers, LLC, 316 NW 28th Terrace, Gainesville, FL 32607, USA.
Giovanni B FrisoniIRCCS San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Laboratory of Epidemiology, Neuroimaging, and Telemedicine, via Pilastroni 4, Brescia 25125, Italy.
Derek HillMedical Imaging Science, UCL, London, UK ; IXICO Ltd, Floor 4, Griffin Court, 15 Long Lane, London EC1A 9PN, UK.
Andrew LockhartGlaxoSmithKline, Neurodegeneration DPU R&D China, Neurosciences TA Unit, Clinical Unit Cambridge, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge CB2 2GG, UK.
Mark E SchmidtExperimental Medicine, Neuroscience Therapeutic Area, Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, Turnhoutseweg 30, B-2340, Beerse 2340, Belgium.
Martin R TurnerOxford University Nuffield, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK.
Stefania MondelloDepartment of Neurosciences, University of Messina, Via Consolare Valeria, 98125 Messina, Italy.
William Z PotterNational Institute of Mental Health, 6001 Executive Boulevard, BG NSC RM 7209, Rockville, MD 20892, USA.

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/K000780/1Medical Research Council MR/K01014X/1Motor Neurone Disease Association TURNER/JAN13/944-795
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This review provides perspectives on the utility of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as a neuroimaging approach in the development of novel treatments for Alzheimer's disease. These considerations were generated in a roundtable at a recent Wellcome Trust meeting that included experts from academia and industry. It was agreed that MRI, either structural or functional, could be used as a diagnostic, for assessing worsening of disease status, for monitoring vascular pathology, and for stratifying clinical trial populations. It was agreed also that MRI implementation is in its infancy, requiring more evidence of association with the disease states, test-retest data, better standardization across multiple clinical sites, and application in multimodal approaches which include other imaging technologies, such as positron emission tomography, electroencephalography, and magnetoencephalography.

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PMID25484927
PMCPMC4255417

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