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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2018

Can the Fact That Myelin Proteins Are Old and Break down Explain the Origin of Multiple Sclerosis in Some People?

Roger J W Truscott, Michael G Friedrich

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 30% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Review
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Molecular Processes Implicated in Human Age-Related Nuclear Cataract.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2019
    Review
  6. [Effect of propofol on myelin basic protein expression and myelination of oligodendrocytes in neonatal SD rats].Nan fang yi ke da xue xue bao = Journal of Southern Medical University · 2019
    Article
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Roger J W TruscottIllawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia. rjwt@uow.edu.au.
Michael G FriedrichIllawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia. michaelf@uow.edu.au.
University of Wollongong · AU

Funding

National Health and Medical Research Council 1008667
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent discoveries may change the way that multiple sclerosis (MS) is viewed, particularly with regard to the reasons for the untoward immune response. The fact that myelin proteins are long-lived, and that by the time we are adults, they are extensively degraded, alters our perspective on the reasons for the onset of autoimmunity and the origin of MS. For example, myelin basic protein (MBP) from every human brain past the age of 20 years, is so greatly modified, that it is effectively a different protein from the one that was laid down in childhood. Since only a subset of people with such degraded MBP develop MS, a focus on understanding the mechanism of immune responses to central nervous system (CNS) antigens and cerebral immune tolerance appear to be worthwhile avenues to explore. In accord with this, it will be productive to examine why all people, whose brains contain large quantities of a "foreign antigen", do not develop MS. Importantly for the potential causation of MS, MBP from MS patients breaks down differently from the MBP in aged controls. If the novel structures formed in these MS-specific regions are particularly antigenic, it could help explain the origin of MS. If verified, these findings could provide an avenue for the rational synthesis of drugs to prevent and treat MS.

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age-relatedisoaspartatemyelin basic proteinposttranslational modificationprotein decompositionproteomics

Identifiers

PMID30223497
PMCPMC6162792
OpenAlexW2889792795

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