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ReviewNeurotoxicity research2019

The Neuroprotective Effect of Doxycycline on Neurodegenerative Diseases.

Flávia Viana Santa-Cecília, Caio Abner Leite, Elaine Del-Bel, Rita Raisman-Vozari

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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 38 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

38 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  6. Doxycycline: An essential tool for Alzheimer's disease.Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie · 2025
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  16. Doxycycline-Loaded Calcium Phosphate Nanoparticles with a Pectin Coat Can Ameliorate Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Neuroinflammation Via Enhancing AMPK.Journal of neuroimmune pharmacology : the official journal of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology · 2024
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  18. Gut-directed therapy in Parkinson's disease.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024
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  20. Effects of acute ΔBrain research · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Flávia Viana Santa-CecíliaLaboratory of Pain and Signaling, Butantan Institute, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Caio Abner LeiteA.C. Camargo Cancer Center, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Elaine Del-BelDepartment of Morphology, Physiology and Stomatology, Faculty of Odontology of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Rita Raisman-VozariInstitut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM), Inserm U 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Université, Paris, F-75013, Paris, France. ritaraisman@gmail.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) are a group of chronic, progressive disorders characterized by the gradual loss of neurons that affect specific regions of the brain, which leads to deficits in specific functions (e.g., memory, movement, cognition). The mechanism that drives chronic progression of NDs remains elusive. Among the proposed underlying pathophysiological mechanisms, aggregation and accumulation of misfolded proteins and neuroinflammation have been credited to contribute to extensive neural loss. Therapeutic agents that confer neuroprotection by downregulating these shared characteristics could therefore have beneficial effects on a wide range of NDs. In this regard, a commonly used antibiotic, doxycycline (Doxy), has been shown to reduce the progression and severity of disease in different experimental models of neurodegeneration by counteracting these common features. This review will focus on the effects reported for Doxy regarding its neuroprotective properties, the "off-target" effects, thereby supporting its evaluation as a new therapeutic approach for diseases associated with a neurodegeneration.

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AnimalsBrainClinical Trials as TopicDoxycyclineEncephalitisHumansNeurodegenerative DiseasesNeuronsNeuroprotective AgentsProtein Aggregation, PathologicalDoxycyclineNeuroprotective AgentsDoxycyclineLess neuronsMisfolded proteinsNeurodegenerationNeuroinflammation

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