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ReviewNeuroscience bulletin2015

Dysfunction of autophagy as the pathological mechanism of motor neuron disease based on a patient-specific disease model.

Dan-Jing Yang, Liang Zhu, Jie Ren, Rong-Jie Ma, Hongwen Zhu, Jun Xu

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Review in Neuroscience bulletin, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Dan-Jing YangAdvanced Institute of Translational Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China.
Liang Zhu
Jie Ren
Rong-Jie Ma
Hongwen Zhu
Jun Xu
Shanghai East Hospital · CNTianjin Hospital · CNTongji University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Autophagy is the main catabolic pathway in cells for the degradation of impaired proteins and organelles. Accumulating evidence supports the hypothesis that dysfunction of autophagy, leading to an imbalance of proteostasis and the accumulation of toxic proteins in neurons, is a central player in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The clinical pathology of ALS is complex and many genes associated with autophagy and RNA processing are mutated in patients with the familial form. But a causal relationship between autophagic dysfunction and ALS has not been fully established. More importantly, studies on the pathological mechanism of ALS are mainly based on animal models that may not precisely recapitulate the disease itself in human beings. The development of human iPSC techniques allows us to address these issues directly in human cell models that may profoundly influence drug discovery for ALS.

Indexed as

AutophagyAnimalsHumansInduced Pluripotent Stem CellsMotor Neuron Disease

Identifiers

PMID26219222
PMCPMC5563712
OpenAlexW2396952251

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