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ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Network Medicine for Alzheimer's Disease and Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Juliet T Jarrell, Li Gao, David S Cohen, Xudong Huang

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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 36 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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36citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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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

36 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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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

4 authors.

Juliet T JarrellNeurochemistry Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA. jjarrell@smith.edu.
Li GaoModern Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China. gaoli87@sxu.edu.cn.
David S CohenNeurochemistry Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA. DCOHEN17@mgh.harvard.edu.
Xudong HuangNeurochemistry Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA. Huang.Xudong@mgh.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-4811-1901

Funding

Nanoneurotoxicity of Metal Oxide Nanomaterials and NeurodegenerationR01AG056614 · NIA · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI HUANG, XUDONG · 2017 to 2020
$1.5M
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG056614
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative condition that currently has no known cure. The principles of the expanding field of network medicine (NM) have recently been applied to AD research. The main principle of NM proposes that diseases are much more complicated than one mutation in one gene, and incorporate different genes, connections between genes, and pathways that may include multiple diseases to create full scale disease networks. AD research findings as a result of the application of NM principles have suggested that functional network connectivity, myelination, myeloid cells, and genes and pathways may play an integral role in AD progression, and may be integral to the search for a cure. Different aspects of the AD pathology could be potential targets for drug therapy to slow down or stop the disease from advancing, but more research is needed to reach definitive conclusions. Additionally, the holistic approaches of network pharmacology in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) research may be viable options for the AD treatment, and may lead to an effective cure for AD in the future.

Indexed as

Medicine, Chinese TraditionalAlzheimer DiseaseBiomarkersDrugs, Chinese HerbalGene Expression RegulationHumansMyelin SheathMyeloid CellsSignal TransductionBiomarkersDrugs, Chinese HerbalAlzheimer’s diseaseinflammationnetwork and system pharmacologynetwork medicinetraditional Chinese medicine

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PMID29751596
PMCPMC6099497

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