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ReviewTrends in pharmacological sciences2017

A Brief Overview of Tauopathy: Causes, Consequences, and Therapeutic Strategies.

Miranda E Orr, A Campbell Sullivan, Bess Frost

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Review in Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 122 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
122citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
8.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
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

122 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 237 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Chemical Biology 2025: Highlights From the Ch/Bi145 Course at Caltech.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2026
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  6. Reversibility and β-sheet formation are decoupled in tau condensate aging.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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62 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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Miranda E OrrBarshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA; Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA.
A Campbell SullivanDepartment of Neurology, University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA.
Bess FrostBarshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA; Department of Cell Systems and Anatomy, University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA. Electronic address: bfrost@uthscsa.edu.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio · US

Funding

San Antonio OAIC - Research Education Component (REC)P30AG044271 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI Adam Salmon, Elena Volpi · 2015 to 2026
$14.1M
Mechanisms of tau- and aging-induced neurological dysfunction: Focus on the nucleusR01AG057896 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI FROST, BESS · 2019 to 2023
$2.8M
Mechanisms and Consequences of Heterochromatin Loss in TauopathiesR00NS088429 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI FROST, BESS · 2016 to 2018
$747k
NIA NIH HHS P30 AG044271NIA NIH HHS R01 AG057896NINDS NIH HHS R00 NS088429
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There are currently no disease-modifying therapies for the treatment of tauopathies, a group of progressive neurodegenerative disorders that are pathologically defined by the presence of tau protein aggregates in the brain. Current challenges for the treatment of tauopathies include the inability to diagnose early and to confidently discriminate between distinct tauopathies in patients, alongside an incomplete understanding of the cellular mechanisms involved in pathogenic tau-induced neuronal death and dysfunction. In this review, we describe current diagnostic and therapeutic strategies, known drivers of pathogenic tau formation, recent contributions to our current mechanistic understanding of how pathogenic tau induces neuronal death, and potential diagnostic and therapeutic approaches.

Indexed as

AnimalsCell DeathHumansNeuronsTauopathiesAlzheimer’s diseasemetabolic syndromeneurodegenerationtautauopathytraumatic brain injury

Identifiers

PMID28455089
PMCPMC5476494
OpenAlexW2608110367

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