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ReviewAnnals of neurosciences2017

Molecular Pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease: An Update.

Alfredo Sanabria-Castro, Ileana Alvarado-Echeverría, Cecilia Monge-Bonilla

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Review in Annals of neurosciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 175 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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175citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
31.0field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

175 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 407 citations in OpenAlex.

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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.

Alfredo Sanabria-CastroResearch Unit, Hospital San Juan de Dios, Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS), San José, Costa Rica.
Ileana Alvarado-EcheverríaResearch Unit, Hospital San Juan de Dios, Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS), San José, Costa Rica.
Cecilia Monge-BonillaResearch Unit, Hospital San Juan de Dios, Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS), San José, Costa Rica.
Costa Rican Department of Social Security · CR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dementia is a chronic or progressive syndrome, characterized by impaired cognitive capacity beyond what could be considered a consequence of normal aging. It affects the memory, thinking process, orientation, comprehension, calculation, learning ability, language, and judgment; although awareness is usually unaffected. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia; symptoms include memory loss, difficulty solving problems, disorientation in time and space, among others. The disease was first described in 1906 at a conference in Tubingen, Germany by Alois Alzheimer. One hundred and ten years since its first documentation, many aspects of the pathophysiology of AD have been discovered and understood, however gaps of knowledge continue to exist. This literature review summarizes the main underlying neurobiological mechanisms in AD, including the theory with emphasis on amyloid peptide, cholinergic hypothesis, glutamatergic neurotransmission, the role of tau protein, and the involvement of oxidative stress and calcium.

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Alzheimer's diseaseAmyloidDementiaNeurobiologyPathogenesisReview

Identifiers

PMID28588356
PMCPMC5448443
OpenAlexW2610300115

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