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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2020

Fluorinated Molecules and Nanotechnology: Future 'Avengers' against the Alzheimer's Disease?

Meghna Dabur, Joana A Loureiro, Maria Carmo Pereira

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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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

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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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Review
  3. Article
  4. Monofluoromethylation ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  5. Article
  6. Perfluorocarbons in Chemical Biology.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Meghna DaburLEPABE, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, s/n, R. Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0003-3226-0117
Joana A LoureiroLEPABE, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, s/n, R. Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-9841-3967
Maria Carmo PereiraLEPABE, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, s/n, R. Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0001-8505-3432

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a serious health concern, affecting millions of people globally, which leads to cognitive impairment, dementia, and inevitable death. There is still no medically accepted treatment for AD. Developing therapeutic treatments for AD is an overwhelming challenge in the medicinal field, as the exact mechanics underlying its devastating symptoms is still not completely understood. Rather than the unknown mechanism of the disease, one of the limiting factors in developing new drugs for AD is the blood-brain barrier (BBB). A combination of nanotechnology with fluorinated molecules is proposed as a promising therapeutic treatment to meet the desired pharmacokinetic/physiochemical properties for crossing the BBB passage. This paper reviews the research conducted on fluorine-containing compounds and fluorinated nanoparticles (NPs) that have been designed and tested for the inhibition of amyloid-beta (Aβ) peptide aggregation. Additionally, this study summarizes fluorinated molecules and NPs as promising agents and further future work is encouraged to be effective for the treatment of AD.

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NanomedicineNanotechnologyTheranostic NanomedicineAlzheimer DiseaseAmyloid beta-PeptidesBiomarkersDrug DevelopmentDrug DiscoveryFluorineHumansMolecular Targeted TherapyProtein AggregatesStructure-Activity RelationshipAmyloid beta-PeptidesBiomarkersFluorineProtein Aggregatesamyloid-beta aggregationamyloid-beta peptideBACE inhibitorsfluorinenanoparticles

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PMID32340267
PMCPMC7216102

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