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ReviewJournal of pharmaceutical sciences2020

Passive Immunotherapies Targeting Amyloid Beta and Tau Oligomers in Alzheimer's Disease.

Crystal M Vander Zanden, Eva Y Chi

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Review in Journal of pharmaceutical sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Conformational inhibitors of protein aggregation.Current opinion in structural biology · 2023
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  8. Gut Microbiota and Immunotherapy for Alzheimer's Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  11. Comparing ARIA-E severity scales and effects of treatment management thresholds.Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2022
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  13. Neural regeneration research · 2021
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  16. Brain Glymphatic/Lymphatic Imaging by MRI and PET.Nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Crystal M Vander ZandenCenter for Biomedical Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80918. Electronic address: cvanderz@uccs.edu.
Eva Y ChiCenter for Biomedical Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131; Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131.
University of Colorado Colorado Springs · USUniversity of New Mexico · US

Funding

FAIR Data Competency and Machine Learning Readiness for Biomedical ScientistsK12GM088021 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIS CTR · PI REBECCA S. HARTLEY, Diane Lidke · 2009 to 2026
$16.4M
Novel Sensors for Detecting Protein Aggregates in Neurodegenerative DiseasesR21NS111267 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO · PI CHI, EVA YUNGHUA · 2019 to 2019
$402k
NIGMS NIH HHS K12 GM088021NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS111267
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is historically difficult to treat, in part because of the inaccessible nature of brain pathology. Amyloid beta and tau proteins drive pathology by forming toxic oligomers that eventually deposit as insoluble amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. Recent clinical studies suggest that effective drugs must specifically target oligomers, not native monomers or insoluble fibrils. Passive immunotherapy is a promising pharmaceutical strategy used to specifically target these oligomers in situ. Using the specificity of antibodies coupled with the natural power of the body's immune response, this treatment provides an opportunity for safe clearance of pathogenic protein species from the brain. Passive immunotherapies against amyloid beta and tau oligomers have progressed to clinical trials, with many currently in progress. Biochemical studies of antibody-oligomer complexes have helped identify previously unknown toxic epitopes, thus providing knowledge to the AD field as a whole. This mini-review focuses on the efforts to develop passive immunotherapy treatments for AD and discusses the knowledge gained from recent failures and clinical trials in progress.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseAmyloid beta-PeptidesAnimalsAntibodies, MonoclonalAntibodies, Monoclonal, HumanizedDrug Delivery SystemsHumansImmunization, Passivetau ProteinsAmyloid beta-PeptidesAntibodies, MonoclonalAntibodies, Monoclonal, Humanizedcrenezumabtau ProteinsAlzheimer’s diseaseamyloid betablood brain barrierclearanceCNSpassive immunotherapyprotein aggregationprotein oligomersprotein structuretau

Identifiers

PMID31647950
PMCPMC6937375
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