Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29385735›Full record

ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Peptides as Potential Therapeutics for Alzheimer's Disease.

Samo Ribarič

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Review in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
23citing papers in PubMed
4.2field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

23 citing papers in PubMed, 63 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Aducanumab-Hope or Disappointment for Alzheimer's Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  19. Oxidative Stress in Alzheimer's Disease:Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity · 2020
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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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Samo RibaričInstitute of Pathophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, Zaloška 4, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. samo.ribaric@mf.uni-lj.si.
Institute of Oncology Ljubljana · SI

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intracellular synthesis, folding, trafficking and degradation of proteins are controlled and integrated by proteostasis. The frequency of protein misfolding disorders in the human population, e.g., in Alzheimer's disease (AD), is increasing due to the aging population. AD treatment options are limited to symptomatic interventions that at best slow-down disease progression. The key biochemical change in AD is the excessive accumulation of per-se non-toxic and soluble amyloid peptides (Aβ(1-37/44), in the intracellular and extracellular space, that alters proteostasis and triggers Aβ modification (e.g., by reactive oxygen species (ROS)) into toxic intermediate, misfolded soluble Aβ peptides, Aβ dimers and Aβ oligomers. The toxic intermediate Aβ products aggregate into progressively less toxic and less soluble protofibrils, fibrils and senile plaques. This review focuses on peptides that inhibit toxic Aβ oligomerization, Aβ aggregation into fibrils, or stabilize Aβ peptides in non-toxic oligomers, and discusses their potential for AD treatment.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseAmyloid beta-PeptidesAnimalsHumansProtein MultimerizationProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalProteostasisReactive Oxygen SpeciesSolubilityAmyloid beta-PeptidesReactive Oxygen SpeciesaggregationAlzheimer’s diseaseamyloid β oligomersamyloid β peptideamyloid β plaquesinsulinneurofibrillary tanglespeptidespeptide therapytau protein

Identifiers

PMID29385735
PMCPMC6017258
OpenAlexW2791799892

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