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ReviewNature reviews. Drug discovery2018

Promoting the clearance of neurotoxic proteins in neurodegenerative disorders of ageing.

Barry Boland, Wai Haung Yu, Olga Corti, Bertrand Mollereau, Alexandre Henriques, Erwan Bezard, Greg M Pastores, David C Rubinsztein, Ralph A Nixon, Michael R Duchen and 9 more

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In one paragraph

Review in Nature reviews. Drug discovery, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 298 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
298citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
40.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

298 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 538 citations in OpenAlex.

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238 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

19 authors at 15 institutions in 6 countries.

Barry BolandDepartment of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Wai Haung YuDepartment of Pathology and Cell Biology, Taub Institute for Alzheimer's Disease Research, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Olga CortiICM Institute for Brain and Spinal Cord, Paris, France.
Bertrand MollereauUniversité de Lyon, ENSL, UCBL, CNRS, LBMC, Lyon, France.
Alexandre HenriquesDepartment of Pharmacology, Neuro-Sys, Gardanne, France.
Erwan BezardCNRS, Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives, Bordeaux, France.
Greg M PastoresDepartment of Metabolic Diseases, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
David C RubinszteinDepartment of Medical Genetics, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge and UK Dementia Research Institute, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK.
Ralph A NixonCenter for Dementia Research, Nathan Kline Institute, Orangeburg, NY, USA.
Michael R DuchenUCL Consortium for Mitochondrial Research and Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London, London, UK.
Giovanna R MallucciDepartment of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Guido KroemerUniversité Paris Descartes/Paris V, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France.
Beth LevineCenter for Autophagy Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
Eeva-Liisa EskelinenDivision of Biochemistry, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Fanny MochelINSERM U 1127, Brain and Spine Institute, Paris, France.
Michael SpeddingSpedding Research Solutions SARL, Le Vesinet, France.
Caroline LouisCentre for Therapeutic Innovation in Neuropsychiatry, IDR Servier, 78290 Croissy sur Seine, France.
Olivier R MartinUniversité d'Orléans & CNRS, Institut de Chimie Organique et Analytique (ICOA), Orléans, France.
Mark J MillanCentre for Therapeutic Innovation in Neuropsychiatry, IDR Servier, 78290 Croissy sur Seine, France.
Servier (France) · FRUniversity of Cambridge · GBCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRColumbia University · USInserm · FRInstitut du Cerveau · FRKarolinska Institutet · SEMater Misericordiae University Hospital · IEMRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit · GBNew York University · USThe University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · USUniversité Claude Bernard Lyon 1 · FRUniversité d'Orléans · FRUniversity College Cork · IEUniversity of Turku · FI

Funding

Uncovering Alzheimer's disease risk mechanisms through neuron-specific analysis of autophagy and endosomal-lysosomal functionP01AG017617 · NIA · NATHAN S. KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCH RES · PI NIXON, RALPH A. · 2000 to 2021
$40.0M
Medical Research Council MR/M02492X/1Medical Research Council UKDRI-2002NIA NIH HHS P01 AG017617
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neurodegenerative disorders of ageing (NDAs) such as Alzheimer disease, Parkinson disease, frontotemporal dementia, Huntington disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis represent a major socio-economic challenge in view of their high prevalence yet poor treatment. They are often called 'proteinopathies' owing to the presence of misfolded and aggregated proteins that lose their physiological roles and acquire neurotoxic properties. One reason underlying the accumulation and spread of oligomeric forms of neurotoxic proteins is insufficient clearance by the autophagic-lysosomal network. Several other clearance pathways are also compromised in NDAs: chaperone-mediated autophagy, the ubiquitin-proteasome system, extracellular clearance by proteases and extrusion into the circulation via the blood-brain barrier and glymphatic system. This article focuses on emerging mechanisms for promoting the clearance of neurotoxic proteins, a strategy that may curtail the onset and slow the progression of NDAs.

Indexed as

AgingAnimalsAutophagyHumansNeurodegenerative DiseasesNeurotoxinsProteasome Endopeptidase ComplexUbiquitinNeurotoxinsProteasome Endopeptidase ComplexUbiquitin

Identifiers

PMID30116051
PMCPMC6456907
OpenAlexW2886059981

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