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ReviewCNS neuroscience & therapeutics2019

Early compensatory responses against neuronal injury: A new therapeutic window of opportunity for Alzheimer's Disease?

Sara Merlo, Simona Federica Spampinato, Maria Angela Sortino

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Review in CNS neuroscience & therapeutics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
47citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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

47 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 80 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sara MerloDepartment of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, Section of Pharmacology, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6558-9800
Simona Federica SpampinatoDepartment of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, Section of Pharmacology, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-7564-1986
Maria Angela SortinoDepartment of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, Section of Pharmacology, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2734-1521
University of Catania · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by extensive neurodegeneration and inflammation in selective brain areas, linked to severely disabling cognitive deficits. Before full manifestation, different stages appear with progressively increased brain pathology and cognitive impairment. This significantly extends the time lag between initial molecular triggers and appearance of detectable symptoms. Notably, a number of studies in the last decade have revealed that in the early stage of mild cognitive impairment, events that appear in contrast with neuronal distress may occur. These have been reproduced in vitro and in animal models and include increase in synaptic elements, increase in synaptic and metabolic activity, enhancement of neurotrophic milieu and changes in glial cell reactivity and inflammation. They have been interpreted as compensatory responses that could either delay disease progression or, in the long run, result detrimental. For this reason, these mechanisms define a new and previously undervalued window of opportunity for intervention. Their importance resides especially in their early appearance. Directing efforts to better characterize this stage, in order to identify new pharmacological targets, is an exciting new avenue to future advances in AD research.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseAnimalsBrainCognitive DysfunctionHumansNeuronsNeuroprotectionbeta-amyloidcognitive impairmentcompensationglial reactivityneurodegeneration

Identifiers

PMID30101571
PMCPMC6436584
OpenAlexW2885762453

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