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ReviewNeurotoxicity research2019

Protective Effects of Antioxidants in Huntington's Disease: an Extensive Review.

Musthafa Mohamed Essa, Marzieh Moghadas, Taher Ba-Omar, M Walid Qoronfleh, Gilles J Guillemin, Thamilarasan Manivasagam, Arokiasamy Justin-Thenmozhi, Bipul Ray, Abid Bhat, Saravana Babu Chidambaram and 3 more

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Review in Neurotoxicity research, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28citing papers in PubMed
4.6field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 64 citations in OpenAlex.

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  19. Non-Cell Autonomous and Epigenetic Mechanisms of Huntington's Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 7 institutions in 5 countries.

Musthafa Mohamed EssaDepartment of Food Science and Nutrition, College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman. drmdessa@gmail.com.
Marzieh MoghadasDepartment of Biology, College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman.
Taher Ba-OmarDepartment of Biology, College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman.
M Walid QoronflehResearch & Policy Department, World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), Qatar Foundation, P.O. Box 5825, Doha, Qatar.
Gilles J GuilleminDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Thamilarasan ManivasagamDepartment of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Annamalai University, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India.
Arokiasamy Justin-ThenmozhiDepartment of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Annamalai University, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India.
Bipul RayDepartment of Pharmacology, JSS College of Pharmacy, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysore, India.
Abid BhatDepartment of Pharmacology, JSS College of Pharmacy, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysore, India.
Saravana Babu ChidambaramDepartment of Pharmacology, JSS College of Pharmacy, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysore, India.
Amanda J FernandesDepartment of Biotechnology, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, Karnataka, 576104, India.
Byoung-Joon SongNIAAA, NIH, Rockville, MD, 20892, USA.
Mohammed AkbarNIAAA, NIH, Rockville, MD, 20892, USA.
JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research · INSultan Qaboos University · OMAnnamalai University · INNational Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism · USMacquarie University · AUManipal Academy of Higher Education · INQatar Foundation · QA

Funding

Alcohol Metabolism, Functional Consequences, Apoptosis Signaling Pathways, and Organ DamageZIAAA000036 · NIAAA · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM · PI SONG, BYOUNG-JOON · 2009 to 2025
$14.8M
Sultan Qaboos University IG/AGR/FOOD/17/02
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Huntington's disease (HD) is a hereditary neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system (CNS). Onset of HD occurs between the ages of 30 and 50 years, although few cases are reported among children and elderly. HD appears to be less common in some populations such as those of Japanese, Chinese, and African descent. Clinical features of HD include motor dysfunction (involuntary movements of the face and body, abnormalities in gait, posture and balance), cognitive impairment (obsessive-compulsive disorder), and psychiatric disorders (dementia). Mutation in either of the two copies of a gene called huntingtin (HTT), which codes genetic information for a protein called "huntingtin (Htt)", precipitates the disease in an individual. Expansion of cytosine-adenine-guanine (CAG) triplet repeats in the HTT gene results in an abnormal Htt protein. Intracellular neuronal accumulation of the mutated Htt protein (mHtt) causes distinctive erratic movements associated with HD. Further, excessive accumulation of the HTT gene repeats causes abnormal production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and the ensuing mitochondrial (MT) oxidative stress in neurons. Since there is neither a cure nor a promising strategy to delay onset or progression of HD currently available, therapeutics are mainly focusing only on symptomatic management. Several studies have shown that MT dysfunction-mediated oxidative stress is a key factor for the neurodegeneration observed in HD. Supplementation of antioxidants and nutraceuticals has been widely studied in the management of oxidative damage, an associated complication in HD. Therefore, various antioxidants are used as therapeutics for managing and/or treating HD. The present review aimed at delving into the abnormal cellular changes and energy kinetics of the neurons expressing the mHtt gene and the therapeutic roles of antioxidants in HD.

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AnimalsAntioxidantsHumansHuntington DiseaseNeuroprotective AgentsAntioxidantsNeuroprotective AgentsAntioxidantsFree radicalsHuntington’s diseaseNeurodegenerationOxidative stressReactive oxygen/nitrogen species

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PMID30632085
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