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ArticlePrion2019

Combining autophagy stimulators and cellulose ethers for therapy against prion disease.

Basant A Abdulrahman, Waqas Tahir, Katsumi Doh-Ura, Sabine Gilch, Hermann M Schatzl

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Article in Prion, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 17% 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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Unraveling Molecular Targets for Neurodegenerative Diseases ThroughInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  13. Immunotherapy against Prion Disease.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
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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 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Basant A AbdulrahmanDepartment of Comparative Biology & Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary , Calgary , Alberta , Canada.
Waqas TahirDepartment of Comparative Biology & Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary , Calgary , Alberta , Canada.
Katsumi Doh-UraDepartment of Neurochemistry, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine , Sendai , Japan.
Sabine GilchDepartment of Comparative Biology & Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary , Calgary , Alberta , Canada.
Hermann M SchatzlDepartment of Comparative Biology & Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary , Calgary , Alberta , Canada.
University of Calgary · CATohoku University · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prion diseases are fatal transmissible neurodegenerative disorders that affect animals and humans. Prions are proteinaceous infectious particles consisting of a misfolded isoform of the cellular prion protein PrP

Indexed as

AnimalsAutophagyCelluloseDrug SynergismEthersFemaleMicePrion DiseasesProteolysisPrPSc ProteinsSirolimusCelluloseEthersPrPSc ProteinsSirolimus60SH-50AR12autophagycellulose etherscombination therapyPrionprion diseaserapamycinTC-5RW

Identifiers

PMID31578923
PMCPMC6779372
OpenAlexW2979260594

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Registered trials

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