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ReviewFrontiers in neuroscience2017

Alzheimer's Disease: The Role of Microglia in Brain Homeostasis and Proteopathy.

Kevin A Clayton, Alicia A Van Enoo, Tsuneya Ikezu

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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 79 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

79 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Kevin A ClaytonDepartment of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Medical School, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States.
Alicia A Van EnooDepartment of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Medical School, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States.
Tsuneya IkezuDepartment of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Medical School, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States.

Funding

TRAINING IN BIOMOLECULAR PHARMACOLOGYT32GM008541 · NIGMS · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI FARB, DAVID H · 1997 to 2022
$5.2M
Exosome-mediated propagation of pathogenic tau proteinRF1AG054199 · NIA · MAYO CLINIC JACKSONVILLE · PI IKEZU, TSUNEYA · 2016 to 2021
$5.0M
Targeting the miR-155 and APOE-TREM2 pathways to restore dysfunctional microglia in Alzheimer’s diseaseR01AG054672 · NIA · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI BUTOVSKY, OLEG, IKEZU, TSUNEYA · 2017 to 2021
$4.1M
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG054672NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG054199NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008541
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Brain aging is central to late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD), although the mechanisms by which it occurs at protein or cellular levels are not fully understood. Alzheimer's disease is the most common proteopathy and is characterized by two unique pathologies: senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, the former accumulating earlier than the latter. Aging alters the proteostasis of amyloid-β peptides and microtubule-associated protein tau, which are regulated in both autonomous and non-autonomous manners. Microglia, the resident phagocytes of the central nervous system, play a major role in the non-autonomous clearance of protein aggregates. Their function is significantly altered by aging and neurodegeneration. This is genetically supported by the association of microglia-specific genes,

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Alzheimer's diseaseamyloid-beta peptidemicroglianeurodegenerationneuroinflammationproteopathytau protein

Identifiers

PMID29311768
PMCPMC5733046

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