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ReviewJournal of central nervous system disease2017

Tumor necrosis factor α Inhibition for Alzheimer's Disease.

Rudy Chang, Kei-Lwun Yee, Rachita K Sumbria

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Review in Journal of central nervous system disease, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 105 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
105citing papers in PubMed, 4 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

105 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 193 citations in OpenAlex.

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45 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.

Rudy ChangDepartment of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont, CA, USA.
Kei-Lwun YeeDepartment of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont, CA, USA.
Rachita K SumbriaDepartment of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont, CA, USA.
Keck Graduate Institute · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) plays a central role in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Food and Drug Administration-approved biologic TNF-α inhibitors are thus a potential treatment for AD, but they do not cross the blood-brain barrier. In this short review, we discuss the involvement of TNF-α in AD, challenges associated with the development of existing biologic TNF-α inhibitors for AD, and potential therapeutic strategies for targeting TNF-α for AD therapy.

Indexed as

Alzheimer’s diseasebiologic TNF-α inhibitorsblood-brain barrierTNF-α

Identifiers

PMID28579870
PMCPMC5436834
OpenAlexW2616586760

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