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ReviewFrontiers in neuroscience2017

The Evidence for the Spread and Seeding Capacities of the Mutant Huntingtin Protein in

Maria Masnata, Francesca Cicchetti

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Review in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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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

22 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Maria MasnataAxe Neurosciences, Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada.
Francesca CicchettiAxe Neurosciences, Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada.
Université Laval · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neurodegenerative disorders are not only characterized by specific patterns of cell loss but the presence and accumulation of various pathological proteins-both of which correlate with disease evolution. There is now mounting evidence to suggest that these pathological proteins present with toxic, at times prion-like, properties and can therefore seed pathology in neighboring as well remotely connected healthy neurons as they spread across the brain. What is less clear, at this stage, is how much this actually contributes to, and drives, the core pathogenic events. In this review, we present a comprehensive, up-to-date summary of the reported

Indexed as

Alzheimer's diseasecell cultureHuntington's diseaseParkinson's diseaseprionstauα-synucleinβ-amyloid

Identifiers

PMID29234268
PMCPMC5712341
OpenAlexW2770943412

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