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ReviewMolecular psychiatry2020

Modeling Alzheimer's disease with iPSC-derived brain cells.

Jay Penney, William T Ralvenius, Li-Huei Tsai

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In one paragraph

Review in Molecular psychiatry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 280 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
280citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
16.6field-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

280 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 454 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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jay PenneyDepartment of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
William T RalveniusDepartment of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Li-Huei TsaiDepartment of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA. lhtsai@mit.edu.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · US

Funding

Cell type specific epigenetic analysis to understand complex mechanisms underlying Alzheimer's disease phenotypesRF1AG054012 · NIA · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI KELLIS, MANOLIS, TSAI, LI-HUEI · 2016 to 2016
$3.9M
The Cdk5/35 KinaseR37NS051874 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI TSAI, LI-HUEI · 2016 to 2022
$3.2M
NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG054012NINDS NIH HHS R37 NS051874
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder with no cure. Countless promising therapeutics have shown efficacy in rodent Alzheimer's disease models yet failed to benefit human patients. While hope remains that earlier intervention with existing therapeutics will improve outcomes, it is becoming increasingly clear that new approaches to understand and combat the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease are needed. Human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technologies have changed the face of preclinical research and iPSC-derived cell types are being utilized to study an array of human conditions, including neurodegenerative disease. All major brain cell types can now be differentiated from iPSCs, while increasingly complex co-culture systems are being developed to facilitate neuroscience research. Many cellular functions perturbed in Alzheimer's disease can be recapitulated using iPSC-derived cells in vitro, and co-culture platforms are beginning to yield insights into the complex interactions that occur between brain cell types during neurodegeneration. Further, iPSC-based systems and genome editing tools will be critical in understanding the roles of the numerous new genes and mutations found to modify Alzheimer's disease risk in the past decade. While still in their relative infancy, these developing iPSC-based technologies hold considerable promise to push forward efforts to combat Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseBrainCell DifferentiationHumansInduced Pluripotent Stem CellsModels, BiologicalNeurodegenerative DiseasesNeurons

Identifiers

PMID31391546
PMCPMC6906186
OpenAlexW2964627277

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