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ReviewJournal of Alzheimer's disease reports2019

Biopharmaceutical Monotargeting versus 'Universal Targeting' of Late-Onset Alzheimer's Disease Using Mixtures of Pleiotropic Natural Compounds.

Howard Friel

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Review in Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact, top 88% 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

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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Howard FrielUniversal Targeting, Northampton, MA, USA.
Target (United States) · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A five-year close reading of the scientific literature on late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) has prompted the invention of a novel therapeutic method that biomechanistically targets the targetable disease-process targets of AD with one or another mixture of non-toxic pleiotropic natural compounds. The featured mixture herein is comprised of curcumin, resveratrol, and EGCG. The mixture's targets include central pathological elements of AD (including amyloid, tau, synaptic dysfunction, oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, and aberrant neuroinflammation), modifiable risk factors, comorbidities, and epigenetic elements. The featured mixture and other such mixtures are suitable for long-term use, and may be applied to any stage of AD, including primary and secondary prevention. Such mixtures also would be amenable for use as pre-treatment, co-treatment, and post-treatment applications with certain biopharmaceutical agents. The targeting focus here is the major credible hypotheses of AD. The focus of future such articles will include other AD-related targets, modifiable risk factors and comorbidities,

Indexed as

Alzheimer’s diseaseamyloid hypothesiscurcuminepigallocatechin gallate (EGCG)mitochondrial dysfunctionneuroinflammationoxidative stressresveratrolsynaptic dysfunctiontau

Identifiers

PMID31435619
PMCPMC6700529
OpenAlexW2966846470

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