Evidence map›Paper›PMID 31960113›Full record

ReviewCellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS2020

Deciphering the neuroprotective and neurogenic potential of soluble amyloid precursor protein alpha (sAPPα).

Nawab John Dar, Gordon W Glazner

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Review in Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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36citing papers in PubMed
4.6field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed, 68 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Monocolonization withMicrobiology spectrum · 2026
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  7. Discovery of an APP-selective BACE1 inhibitor for Alzheimer's disease.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2025
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  8. Alzheimer disease: Amyloid peptide controversies and challenges of anti-Aβ immunotherapy.The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics · 2025
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  18. Therapeutic effects of a novel synthetic α-secretase.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2024
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  20. Amyloid precursor protein induces reactive astrogliosis.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nawab John DarDepartment of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
Gordon W GlaznerDepartment of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. Gordon.Glazner@umanitoba.ca.
St. Boniface Hospital · CAUniversity of Manitoba · CA

Funding

St. Boniface Hospital Research Foundation SBHF-7069
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Amyloid precursor protein (APP) is a transmembrane protein expressed largely within the central nervous system. Upon cleavage, it does not produce the toxic amyloid peptide (Aβ) only, which is involved in neurodegenerative progressions but via a non-amyloidogenic pathway it is metabolized to produce a soluble fragment (sAPPα) through α-secretase. While a lot of studies are focusing on the role played by APP in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease, sAPPα is reported to have numerous neuroprotective effects and it is being suggested as a candidate with possible therapeutic potential against Alzheimer's disease. However, the mechanisms through which sAPPα precisely works remain elusive. We have presented a comprehensive review of how sAPPα is regulating the neuroprotective effects in different biological models. Moreover, we have focused on the role of sAPPα during different developmental stages of the brain, neurogenic microenvironment in the brain and how this metabolite of APP is regulating the neurogenesis which is regarded as a compelling approach to ameliorate the impaired learning and memory deficits in dementia and diseases like Alzheimer's disease. sAPPα exerts beneficial physiological, biochemical and behavioral effects mitigating the detrimental effects of neurotoxic compounds. It has shown to increase the proliferation rate of numerous cell types and promised the synaptogenesis, neurite outgrowth, cell survival and cell adhesion. Taken together, we believe that further studies are warranted to investigate the exact mechanism of action so that sAPPα could be developed as a novel therapeutic target against neuronal deficits.

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Alzheimer DiseaseAmyloid beta-Protein PrecursorAnimalsBrainHumansNeuronsNeuroprotectionNeuroprotective AgentsAmyloid beta-Protein PrecursorNeuroprotective AgentsAlzheimer’s diseaseAmyloid precursor proteinBrain developmentDementiaLearning and memoryNeurodegenerationNeurogenesisNeurogenic nichesAPPα

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PMID31960113
PMCPMC11105086
OpenAlexW3001355088

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