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ReviewExpert review of vaccines2016

Developing therapeutic vaccines against Alzheimer's disease.

Thomas Wisniewski, Eleanor Drummond

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Review in Expert review of vaccines, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
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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

29 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Cell-specific protein expression in Alzheimer's disease prefrontal cortex.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
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  4. Immunotherapies: A Treasure Trove of Alzheimer's Disease.Current pharmaceutical biotechnology · 2025
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  16. Tau-targeting therapies for Alzheimer disease.Nature reviews. Neurology · 2018
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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

2 authors.

Thomas Wisniewskia Center for Cognitive Neurology , New York University School of Medicine , New York , NY , USA.
Eleanor Drummonda Center for Cognitive Neurology , New York University School of Medicine , New York , NY , USA.

Funding

PSYCHOSOCIAL COREP30AG008051 · NIA · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI SHAO, YONGZHAO · 1990 to 2019
$36.1M
Detection and Clearance of AD LesionsR01AG020245 · NIA · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI WISNIEWSKI, THOMAS M · 2002 to 2016
$4.7M
Therapeutic Targeting of Abnormal Conformation in Neurodegenerative DiseaseR01NS073502 · NINDS · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI WISNIEWSKI, THOMAS M · 2010 to 2019
$3.7M
NIA NIH HHS AG08051NIA NIH HHS AG20245NIA NIH HHS P30 AG008051NIA NIH HHS R01 AG020245NINDS NIH HHS NS073502NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS073502
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia worldwide. It is characterized by an imbalance between the production and clearance of amyloid β (Aβ) and tau proteins. In AD these normal proteins accumulate, leading to aggregation and a conformational change forming oligomeric and fibrillary species with a high β-sheet content. Active and passive immunotherapeutic approaches result in dramatic reduction of Aβ pathology in AD animal models. However, there is much more limited evidence in human studies of significant clinical benefits from these strategies and it is becoming apparent that they may only be effective very early in AD. Vaccination targeting only tau pathology has shown benefits in some mouse studies but human studies are limited. Greater therapeutic efficacy for the next generation of vaccine approaches will likely benefit from specifically targeting the most toxic species of Aβ and tau, ideally simultaneously.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseAmyloidogenic ProteinsAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalHumansVaccinesAmyloidogenic ProteinsVaccinesAmyloid-βimmunomodulationimmunotherapyneurodegenerative diseaseoligomersprion diseasetau

Identifiers

PMID26577574
PMCPMC4940858

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