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ReviewNeurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics2016

Immunotherapeutic Approaches Targeting Amyloid-β, α-Synuclein, and Tau for the Treatment of Neurodegenerative Disorders.

Elvira Valera, Brian Spencer, Eliezer Masliah

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In one paragraph

Review in Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
69citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
9.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

69 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 127 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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Elvira Valera
Brian Spencer
Eliezer Masliah
University of California, San Diego · US

Funding

VIRUS-INDUCED BRAIN PATHOLOGYP50AG005131 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI BREWER, JAMES B · 1985 to 2018
$55.4M
Tissue Culture CoreP01AG022074 · NIA · J. DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES · PI FINKBEINER, STEVEN M · 2003 to 2012
$27.0M
Studies on Diagnosis, Pathophysiology, and Treatment of Autonomic Failure in MSAP01NS044233 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI MASLIAH, ELIEZER · 2003 to 2014
$12.4M
B-Synuclein as a Treatment for Lewy Body DiseaseR01AG018440 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI RISSMAN, ROBERT · 2001 to 2021
$5.2M
a-synuclein clearance strategies for the treatment of Lewy body disease.R37AG018440 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI MASLIAH, ELIEZER · 2006 to 2014
$2.7M
NIA NIH HHS AG022074NIA NIH HHS AG18440NIA NIH HHS P01 AG022074NIA NIH HHS P50 AG005131NIA NIH HHS R01 AG018440NIA NIH HHS R37 AG018440NINDS NIH HHS NS044233NINDS NIH HHS P01 NS044233
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Disease-modifying alternatives are sorely needed for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders, a group of diseases that afflict approximately 50 million Americans annually. Immunotherapy is one of the most developed approaches in this direction. Vaccination against amyloid-β, α-synuclein, or tau has been extensively explored, specially as the discovery that these proteins may propagate cell-to-cell and be accessible to antibodies when embedded into the plasma membrane or in the extracellular space. Likewise, the use of passive immunization approaches with specific antibodies against abnormal conformations of these proteins has also yielded promising results. The clinical development of immunotherapies for Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies, and other neurodegenerative disorders is a field in constant evolution. Results to date suggest that immunotherapy is a promising therapeutic approach for neurodegenerative diseases that progress with the accumulation and prion-like propagation of toxic protein aggregates. Here we provide an overview of the most novel and relevant immunotherapeutic advances targeting amyloid-β in Alzheimer’s disease, α-synuclein in Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, and tau in Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia.

Indexed as

alpha-SynucleinAmyloid beta-PeptidesHumansImmunotherapyNeurodegenerative DiseasesParkinson Diseasetau Proteinsalpha-SynucleinAmyloid beta-Peptidestau Proteins

Identifiers

PMID26494242
PMCPMC4720672
OpenAlexW2195477255

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