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ReviewAntioxidants (Basel, Switzerland)2014

Antioxidant and Metal Chelation-Based Therapies in the Treatment of Prion Disease.

Marcus W Brazier, Anthony G Wedd, Steven J Collins

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Review in Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 33% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Marcus W BrazierDepartment of Pathology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia. brazier@unimelb.edu.au.
Anthony G WeddThe Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia. agw@unimelb.edu.au.
Steven J CollinsDepartment of Pathology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia. stevenjc@unimelb.edu.au.
University of Melbourne · AUBiotechnology Institute · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many neurodegenerative disorders involve the accumulation of multimeric assemblies and amyloid derived from misfolded conformers of constitutively expressed proteins. In addition, the brains of patients and experimental animals afflicted with prion disease display evidence of heightened oxidative stress and damage, as well as disturbances to transition metal homeostasis. Utilising a variety of disease model paradigms, many laboratories have demonstrated that copper can act as a cofactor in the antioxidant activity displayed by the prion protein while manganese has been implicated in the generation and stabilisation of disease-associated conformers. This and other evidence has led several groups to test dietary and chelation therapy-based regimens to manipulate brain metal concentrations in attempts to influence the progression of prion disease in experimental mice. Results have been inconsistent. This review examines published data on transition metal dyshomeostasis, free radical generation and subsequent oxidative damage in the pathogenesis of prion disease. It also comments on the efficacy of trialed therapeutics chosen to combat such deleterious changes.

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amyloidantioxidantchelationCJDCuhydroxyl radicalMnoxidative stressSOD2superoxide dismutasetherapytransmissible spongiform encephalopathy

Identifiers

PMID26784872
PMCPMC4665489
OpenAlexW2081981609

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