Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29286329›Full record

SynthesisMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2017

Amyloid Biomarkers in Conformational Diseases at Face Value: A Systematic Review.

Maria Fernanda Avila-Vazquez, Nelly F Altamirano-Bustamante, Myriam M Altamirano-Bustamante

Open access · goldAbstract readSystematic Review
In one paragraph

Synthesis in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 27% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Observational
  4. Article
  5. Diabetes Drug Discovery: hIAPPMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018
    Article
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 3 institutions in 1 country.

Maria Fernanda Avila-VazquezUnidad de Investigación en Enfermedades Metabólicas, Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, IMSS, Mexico City 06720, Mexico. feravilaibero@gmail.com.
Nelly F Altamirano-BustamanteInstituto Nacional de Pediatría, Mexico City 04530, Mexico. nellyab34@gmail.com.
Myriam M Altamirano-BustamanteUnidad de Investigación en Enfermedades Metabólicas, Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, IMSS, Mexico City 06720, Mexico. myriamab@unam.mx.
Centro Medico Nacional Siglo XXI · MXIbero American University · MXInstituto Nacional de Pediatria · MX

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Conformational diseases represent a new aspect of proteomic medicine where diagnostic and therapeutic paradigms are evolving. In this context, the early biomarkers for target cell failure (neurons, β-cells, etc.) represent a challenge to translational medicine and play a multidimensional role as biomarkers and potential therapeutic targets. This systematic review, which follows the PICO and Prisma methods, analyses this new-fangled multidimensionality, its strengths and limitations, and presents the future possibilities it opens up. The nuclear diagnosis methods are immunoassays: ELISA, immunodot, western blot, etc., while the therapeutic approach is focused on pharmaco- and molecular chaperones.

Indexed as

DiseaseProtein ConformationAmyloidAnimalsBiomarkersEnzyme-Linked Immunosorbent AssayHumansProtein AggregatesAmyloidBiomarkersProtein AggregatesAlzheimer’s diseaseamyloid oligomersbiomarkerconformational diseasescytotoxic oligomersdiabetes mellitus

Identifiers

PMID29286329
PMCPMC6017595
OpenAlexW2778757226

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Registered trials

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