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ArticleNature2018

A lymphatic waste-disposal system implicated in Alzheimer's disease.

Melanie D Sweeney, Berislav V Zlokovic

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Article in Nature, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
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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

21 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Tauopathy after long-term cervical lymphadenectomy.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
    Article
  5. The Glymphatic System and Its Role in Neurovascular Diseases.Journal of neuroendovascular therapy · 2025
    Review
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  13. Is There a Brain Microbiome?Neuroscience insights · 2021
    Review
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  15. Brain communications · 2020
    Article
  16. Anticoagulants for Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2020
    Review
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  18. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Melanie D Sweeney
Berislav V Zlokovic

Funding

VASCULAR RISK AND COGNITIVE STATUS IN A LATINO POPULATIONP50AG005142 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI BRASKIE, MEREDITH NICOLE · 1985 to 2019
$41.0M
Vascular Contributions to Dementia and Genetic Risk Factors for Alzheimer's DiseaseP01AG052350 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI Daniel A Nation, ARTHUR W TOGA · 2016 to 2026
$28.4M
Alzheimer's Abeta, Tau, Apolipoproteins and Blood-brain barrierR01NS034467 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI YASSINE, HUSSEIN N · 1995 to 2024
$9.1M
The role of pericytes in the aging brain and pathogenesis and treatment of neurodegeneration, and Alzheimer's A-beta and tau pathologyRF1AG039452 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI ICHIDA, JUSTIN KAWIKA · 2019 to 2019
$4.0M
The role of pericytes in white matter diseaseR01NS100459 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI ZLOKOVIC, BERISLAV V · 2016 to 2020
$3.6M
Cerebrovascular beta-Amyloidosis: A-beta CNS Transport PathwaysR01AG023084 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI ZLOKOVIC, BERISLAV V · 2015 to 2019
$3.0M
The role of pericytes in the adult and the aging brainR01AG039452 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI ZLOKOVIC, BERISLAV V · 2011 to 2015
$1.6M
NIA NIH HHS P01 AG052350NIA NIH HHS P50 AG005142NIA NIH HHS R01 AG023084NIA NIH HHS R01 AG039452NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG039452NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS034467NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS100459
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseLymphatic VesselsAgingHumansMeningesAgeingAlzheimer's diseaseNeuroscience

Identifiers

PMID30076374
PMCPMC6201839

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