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ReviewOxidative medicine and cellular longevity2015

The Role of Oxidative Damage in the Pathogenesis and Progression of Alzheimer's Disease and Vascular Dementia.

Maria Luca, Antonina Luca, Carmela Calandra

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Review in Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 89 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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89citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
7.3field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

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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, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 170 citations in OpenAlex.

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29 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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Maria LucaPsychiatry Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies, University Hospital Policlinico-Vittorio Emanuele, Santa Sofia Street 78, Catania, 95100 Sicily, Italy.
Antonina LucaDepartment of "G.F. Ingrassia", University Hospital Policlinico-Vittorio Emanuele, Santa Sofia Street 78, Catania, 95100 Sicily, Italy.
Carmela CalandraPsychiatry Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies, University Hospital Policlinico-Vittorio Emanuele, Santa Sofia Street 78, Catania, 95100 Sicily, Italy.
Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Policlinico - Vittorio Emanuele · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oxidative stress (OS) has been demonstrated to be involved in the pathogenesis of the two major types of dementia: Alzheimer's disease (AD) and vascular dementia (VaD). Evidence of OS and OS-related damage in AD is largely reported in the literature. Moreover, OS is not only linked to VaD, but also to all its risk factors. Several researches have been conducted in order to investigate whether antioxidant therapy exerts a role in the prevention and treatment of AD and VaD. Another research field is that pertaining to the heat shock proteins (Hsps), that has provided promising findings. However, the role of OS antioxidant defence system and more generally stress responses is very complex. Hence, research on this topic should be improved in order to reach further knowledge and discover new therapeutic strategies to face a disorder with such a high burden which is dementia.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseDementia, VascularDisease ProgressionHumansOxidative Stress

Identifiers

PMID26301043
PMCPMC4537746
OpenAlexW1533990758

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