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ReviewAlzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association2016

Therapeutic strategies for the treatment of tauopathies: Hopes and challenges.

Mansi R Khanna, Jane Kovalevich, Virginia M-Y Lee, John Q Trojanowski, Kurt R Brunden

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Review in Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
54citing papers in PubMed
9.3field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

54 citing papers in PubMed, 112 citations in OpenAlex.

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  16. Broad Kinase Inhibition Mitigates Early Neuronal Dysfunction in Tauopathy.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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  19. Tauopathies: Deciphering Disease Mechanisms to Develop Effective Therapies.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020
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  20. Four-Repeat Tauopathies: Current Management and Future Treatments.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Mansi R KhannaDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Institute on Aging, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Jane KovalevichDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Institute on Aging, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Virginia M-Y LeeDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Institute on Aging, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
John Q TrojanowskiDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Institute on Aging, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Kurt R BrundenDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Institute on Aging, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Electronic address: kbrunden@upenn.edu.
Institute on Aging · USUniversity of Pennsylvania · USInstitute for Neurodegenerative Disorders · US

Funding

Transgenic Mouse Models of Tau PathologiesP01AG017586 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI LEE, VIRGINIA M · 2000 to 2021
$37.3M
UPenn ADCC Biomarker CoreP30AG010124 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI XIE, SHARON XIANGWEN · 1991 to 2020
$35.1M
Orally-absorbed, small molecule microtubule-stabilizers for tauopathy treatmentR01AG044332 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI BALLATORE, CARLO, BRUNDEN, KURT R. · 2013 to 2017
$2.3M
Dictyostatin and related prodrugs as candidates for tauopathy treatmentR21NS087059 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI SMITH, AMOS B · 2014 to 2015
$800k
NIA NIH HHS P01 AG017586NIA NIH HHS P30 AG010124NIA NIH HHS R01 AG044332NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS087059
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A group of neurodegenerative diseases referred to as tauopathies are characterized by the presence of brain cells harboring inclusions of pathological species of the tau protein. These disorders include Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration due to tau pathology, including progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal degeneration, and Pick's disease. Tau is normally a microtubule (MT)-associated protein that appears to play an important role in ensuring proper axonal transport, but in tauopathies tau becomes hyperphosphorylated and disengages from MTs, with consequent misfolding and deposition into inclusions that mainly affect neurons but also glia. A body of experimental evidence suggests that the development of tau inclusions leads to the neurodegeneration observed in tauopathies, and there is a growing interest in developing tau-directed therapeutic agents. The following review provides a summary of strategies under investigation for the potential treatment of tauopathies, highlighting both the promises and challenges associated with these various therapeutic approaches.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseBrainFrontotemporal Lobar DegenerationHumansTauopathiestau Proteinstau ProteinsAlzheimer's diseaseAmyloidDrugsFibrilsMicrotubulesNeuronsTauTauopathyTherapeutics

Identifiers

PMID27751442
PMCPMC5116305
OpenAlexW2531274513

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