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ArticleDialogues in clinical neuroscience2019

Potential immunotherapy for Alzheimer disease and age-related dementia.

Michal Schwartz, Michal Arad, Hila Ben-Yehuda

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Article in Dialogues in clinical neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 19% 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

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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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Michal SchwartzDepartment of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, 7610001 Rehovot, Israel.
Michal AradDepartment of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, 7610001 Rehovot, Israel.
Hila Ben-YehudaDepartment of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, 7610001 Rehovot, Israel.
Weizmann Institute of Science · IL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Emerging results support the concept that Alzheimer disease (AD) and age-related dementia are affected by the ability of the immune system to contain the brain's pathology. Accordingly, well-controlled boosting, rather than suppression of systemic immunity, has been suggested as a new approach to modify disease pathology without directly targeting any of the brain's disease hallmarks. Here, we provide a short review of the mechanisms orchestrating the cross-talk between the brain and the immune system. We then discuss how immune checkpoint blockade directed against the PD-1/PD-L1 pathways could be developed as an immunotherapeutic approach to combat this disease using a regimen that will address the needs to combat AD.

Indexed as

ImmunotherapyAlzheimer DiseaseAnimalsB7-H1 AntigenBrainDementiaHumansProgrammed Cell Death 1 ReceptorTreatment OutcomeB7-H1 AntigenCD274 protein, humanPDCD1 protein, humanProgrammed Cell Death 1 ReceptorAlzheimer diseaseimmune checkpointimmunotherapymacrophagemicroglia

Identifiers

PMID31607777
PMCPMC6780363
OpenAlexW2985766419

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