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ReviewBritish journal of pharmacology2019

Microglial inflammation and phagocytosis in Alzheimer's disease: Potential therapeutic targets.

Sohaib Nizami, Hazel Hall-Roberts, Sharat Warrier, Sally A Cowley, Elena Di Daniel

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Review in British journal of pharmacology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 84 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
84citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
9.5field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

84 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 152 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

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sohaib NizamiAlzheimer's Research UK Oxford Drug Discovery Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6322-3688
Hazel Hall-RobertsAlzheimer's Research UK Oxford Drug Discovery Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0330-9604
Sharat WarrierAlzheimer's Research UK Oxford Drug Discovery Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0156-4302
Sally A CowleyJames Martin Stem Cell Facility, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0297-6675
Elena Di DanielAlzheimer's Research UK Oxford Drug Discovery Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0535-2123
University of Oxford · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_EX_MR/N50192X/1Medical Research Council MC_PC_16034Medical Research Council MR/L023784/1Medical Research Council MR/L023784/2Medical Research Council MR/M024962/1Medical Research Council MR/N013255/1Parkinson's UK J-0901Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

One of the largest unmet medical needs is a disease-modifying treatment for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Recently, the role of microglia in disease, particularly AD, has gained great interest, following the identification of several disease risk-associated genes that are highly expressed in microglia. Microglia play a critical homeostatic role in the brain, with neuroinflammatory and phagocytic mechanisms being of particular importance. Here, we review the role of NLRP3, the complement system, and the triggering receptor expressed in myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) in modulating microglial functions. We have reviewed the targets, their molecular pathways and the therapeutic interventions aimed at modulating these targets, in the hope of discovering a novel therapeutic approach for the treatment of AD. LINKED ARTICLES: This article is part of a themed section on Therapeutics for Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease: New Directions for Precision Medicine. To view the other articles in this section visit http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bph.v176.18/issuetoc.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseAnimalsComplement System ProteinsHumansInflammationMembrane GlycoproteinsMicrogliaNLR Family, Pyrin Domain-Containing 3 ProteinPhagocytosisReceptors, ImmunologicComplement System ProteinsMembrane GlycoproteinsNLR Family, Pyrin Domain-Containing 3 ProteinReceptors, ImmunologicTREM2 protein, human

Identifiers

PMID30740661
PMCPMC6715590
OpenAlexW2914464117

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