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ReviewNeurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics2015

Reversing synapse loss in Alzheimer's disease: Rho-guanosine triphosphatases and insights from other brain disorders.

Roger Lefort

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Review in Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 38% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Roger LefortThe Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain, and Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, 10032, USA, rl2040@cumc.columbia.edu.
Columbia University Irving Medical Center · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a monumental public health crisis with no effective cure or treatment. To date, therapeutic strategies have focused almost exclusively on upstream signaling events in the disease, namely on β-amyloid and amyloid precursor protein processing, and have, unfortunately, yielded few, if any, promising results. An alternative approach may be to target signaling events downstream of β-amyloid and even tau. However, with so many pathways already linked to the disease, understanding which ones are "drivers" versus "passengers" in the pathogenesis of the disease remains a tremendous challenge. Given the critical roles of Rho-guanosine triphosphatases (GTPases) in regulating the actin cytoskeleton and spine dynamics, and the strong association between spine abnormalities and cognition, it is not surprising that mutations in a number of genes involved in Rho-GTPase signaling have been implicated in several brain disorders, including schizophrenia and autism. And now, there is mounting literature implicating Rho-GTPase signaling in AD pathogenesis as well. Here, I review this evidence, with a particular emphasis on the regulators of Rho-GTPase signaling, namely guanine nucleotide exchange factors and GTPase-activating proteins. Several of these have been linked to various aspects of AD, and each offers a novel potential therapeutic target for AD.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseAnimalsBrain DiseasesGTPase-Activating ProteinsGuanine Nucleotide Exchange FactorsHumansrho GTP-Binding ProteinsSignal TransductionSynapsesGTPase-Activating ProteinsGuanine Nucleotide Exchange Factorsrho GTP-Binding Proteins

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PMID25588580
PMCPMC4322073
OpenAlexW2134565622

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