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ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2020

PET Radiopharmaceuticals for Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's Disease Diagnosis, the Current and Future Landscape.

Bright Chukwunwike Uzuegbunam, Damiano Librizzi, Behrooz Hooshyar Yousefi

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In one paragraph

Review in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
53citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

53 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 105 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Role of Total Body PET/CT in Inflammatory Disorders.Seminars in nuclear medicine · 2025
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  18. Druggability of Targets for Diagnostic Radiopharmaceuticals.ACS pharmacology & translational science · 2023
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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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Bright Chukwunwike UzuegbunamNuclear Medicine Department, and Neuroimaging Center, Technical University of Munich, 81675 Munich, Germany.
Damiano LibrizziDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Philipps-University of Marburg, 35043 Marburg, Germany.
Behrooz Hooshyar YousefiNuclear Medicine Department, and Neuroimaging Center, Technical University of Munich, 81675 Munich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0679-4449
Philipps University of Marburg · DETechnical University of Munich · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ironically, population aging which is considered a public health success has been accompanied by a myriad of new health challenges, which include neurodegenerative disorders (NDDs), the incidence of which increases proportionally to age. Among them, Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) are the most common, with the misfolding and the aggregation of proteins being common and causal in the pathogenesis of both diseases. AD is characterized by the presence of hyperphosphorylated τ protein (tau), which is the main component of neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), and senile plaques the main component of which is β-amyloid peptide aggregates (Aβ). The neuropathological hallmark of PD is α-synuclein aggregates (α-syn), which are present as insoluble fibrils, the primary structural component of Lewy body (LB) and neurites (LN). An increasing number of non-invasive PET examinations have been used for AD, to monitor the pathological progress (hallmarks) of disease. Notwithstanding, still the need for the development of novel detection tools for other proteinopathies still remains. This review, although not exhaustively, looks at the timeline of the development of existing tracers used in the imaging of Aβ and important moments that led to the development of these tracers.

Indexed as

alpha-SynucleinAlzheimer DiseaseAmyloid beta-Protein PrecursorBrainHumansParkinson DiseasePlaque, AmyloidPositron-Emission TomographyRadiopharmaceuticalstau Proteinsalpha-SynucleinAmyloid beta-Protein PrecursorAPP protein, humanRadiopharmaceuticalstau ProteinsAlzheimer’s diseasediagnostic imaging probesneurofibrillary tanglesParkinson’s diseasepositron emission tomography (PET)α-synucleinopathyβ-amyloid plaques

Identifiers

PMID32098280
PMCPMC7070523
OpenAlexW3006765030

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