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ReviewCurrent nutrition reports2018

Impact of Flavonoids on Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Age-Related Cognitive Decline and Neurodegeneration.

Emma Flanagan, Michael Müller, Michael Hornberger, David Vauzour

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In one paragraph

Review in Current nutrition reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
53citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
5.6field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

53 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 113 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Dietary Flavonoids and Human Cognition: A Meta-Analysis.Molecular nutrition & food research · 2022
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  6. Alzheimer's disease prevention by flavonols and their analogs.The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease · 2026
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  7. Active Fraction ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  18. Neuro-Nutraceutical Polyphenols: How Far Are We?Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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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 at 1 institution in 1 country.

Emma FlanaganNorwich Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7UQ, UK.
Michael MüllerNorwich Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7UQ, UK.
Michael HornbergerNorwich Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7UQ, UK.
David VauzourNorwich Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7UQ, UK. D.Vauzour@uea.ac.uk.
University of East Anglia · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewThis review summarises the most recent evidence regarding the effects of dietary flavonoids on age-related cognitive decline and neurodegenerative diseases. RECENT

findingsRecent evidence indicates that plant-derived flavonoids may exert powerful actions on mammalian cognition and protect against the development of age-related cognitive decline and pathological neurodegeneration. The neuroprotective effects of flavonoids have been suggested to be due to interactions with the cellular and molecular architecture of brain regions responsible for memory. Mechanisms for the beneficial effects of flavonoids on age-related cognitive decline and dementia are discussed, including modulating signalling pathways critical in controlling synaptic plasticity, reducing neuroinflammation, promoting vascular effects capable of stimulating new nerve cell growth in the hippocampus, bidirectional interactions with gut microbiota and attenuating the extracellular accumulation of pathological proteins. These processes are known to be important in maintaining optimal neuronal function and preventing age-related cognitive decline and neurodegeneration.

Indexed as

AgingDietAnimalsAnti-Inflammatory AgentsCognition DisordersDementiaFlavonoidsGastrointestinal MicrobiomeHippocampusHumansMemoryNeurodegenerative DiseasesNeuronal PlasticityPlant ExtractsAnti-Inflammatory AgentsFlavonoidsPlant ExtractsAlzheimer’s diseaseMemoryMicrobiomePolyphenolsSignalling pathways

Identifiers

PMID29892788
PMCPMC5960493
OpenAlexW2802854165

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