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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2017

Pathology of Neurodegenerative Diseases.

Brittany N Dugger, Dennis W Dickson

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In one paragraph

Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 821 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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821citing papers in PubMed, 9 pooled it
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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

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

821 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 1,567 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Enteric Nervous System Damage by Food Contaminants: A Pathway to Neurodegeneration?Comprehensive reviews in food science and food safety · 2026
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  12. Beyond Histamine Blockade: Clemastine Fumarate as a Promoter of Myelin Regeneration, Inflammatory Regulation, and Neuroimmune Modulation in CNS Disorders.Journal of neuroimmune pharmacology : the official journal of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology · 2026
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761 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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Brittany N DuggerInstitute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Department of Neurology, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143.
Dennis W DicksonMayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida 32224.
Nemours Children's Clinic · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

VIRAL DEGENERATIVE DEMENTING DISEASE IN AGING (SUPP)P01AG002132 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI PRUSINER, STANLEY B · 1985 to 2024
$51.7M
THE PGRN/TDP-43 AXIS IN ALZHEIMER?S DISEASE AND NEURODEGENERATIONP50AG016574 · NIA · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI PETERSEN, RONALD C · 1999 to 2018
$36.9M
Project 3: Neuropathology of the multi-proteinopathy of c9FTD/ALS.P01NS084974 · NINDS · MAYO CLINIC JACKSONVILLE · PI PETRUCELLI, LEONARD · 2014 to 2024
$17.6M
Neuropathology CoreP50NS072187 · NINDS · MAYO CLINIC JACKSONVILLE · PI DICKSON, DENNIS WILLIAM · 2010 to 2017
$8.7M
Understanding the role of TDP-43 in Alzheimers disease and FTLDR01AG037491 · NIA · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI JOSEPHS, KEITH A · 2010 to 2024
$6.5M
NIA NIH HHS P01 AG002132NIA NIH HHS P50 AG016574NIA NIH HHS R01 AG037491NINDS NIH HHS P01 NS084974NINDS NIH HHS P50 NS072187
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neurodegenerative disorders are characterized by progressive loss of selectively vulnerable populations of neurons, which contrasts with select static neuronal loss because of metabolic or toxic disorders. Neurodegenerative diseases can be classified according to primary clinical features (e.g., dementia, parkinsonism, or motor neuron disease), anatomic distribution of neurodegeneration (e.g., frontotemporal degenerations, extrapyramidal disorders, or spinocerebellar degenerations), or principal molecular abnormality. The most common neurodegenerative disorders are amyloidoses, tauopathies, α-synucleinopathies, and TDP-43 proteinopathies. The protein abnormalities in these disorders have abnormal conformational properties. Growing experimental evidence suggests that abnormal protein conformers may spread from cell to cell along anatomically connected pathways, which may in part explain the specific anatomical patterns observed at autopsy. In this review, we detail the human pathology of select neurodegenerative disorders, focusing on their main protein aggregates.

Indexed as

HumansNeurodegenerative DiseasesProtein AggregatesProtein ConformationProtein Aggregates

Identifiers

PMID28062563
PMCPMC5495060
OpenAlexW2570634615

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