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ReviewInternational review of neurobiology2020

The mitochondrial hypothesis: Dysfunction, bioenergetic defects, and the metabolic link to Alzheimer's disease.

Russell H Swerdlow

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In one paragraph

Review in International review of neurobiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
46citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
17.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

46 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 86 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Effects of the SGLT2 inhibitor dapagliflozin in early Alzheimer's disease: A randomized controlled trial.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
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  14. Rock inhibitors in Alzheimer's disease.Frontiers in aging · 2025
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  18. Inhibiting mtDNA transcript translation alters Alzheimer's disease-associated biology.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024
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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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Russell H SwerdlowUniversity of Kansas Alzheimer's Disease Center, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States. Electronic address: rswerdlow@kumc.edu.
University of Kansas Medical Center · US

Funding

University of Kansas Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (KU ADRC)P30AG072973 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER · PI Jaime Perales Puchalt · 2021 to 2026
$25.3M
University of Kansas Alzheimer's Disease Core CentersP30AG035982 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER · PI BROOKS, WILLIAM M. · 2011 to 2020
$16.6M
Validation and Mechanistic Interrogation of Metabolism Targeting for ADR01AG060733 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER · PI SULLIVAN, DEBRA K, SWERDLOW, RUSSELL H. · 2019 to 2024
$3.5M
Mechanistic Basis of the mtDNA Haplogroup J-Alzheimer's Disease AssociationR01AG061194 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER · PI SWERDLOW, RUSSELL H. · 2019 to 2023
$1.9M
NIA NIH HHS P30 AG035982NIA NIH HHS P30 AG072973NIA NIH HHS R01 AG060733NIA NIH HHS R01 AG061194
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) features mitochondrial dysfunction and altered metabolism. Other pathologies could drive these changes, or alternatively these changes could drive other pathologies. In considering this question, it is worth noting that perturbed AD patient mitochondrial and metabolism dysfunction extend beyond the brain and to some extent define a systemic phenotype. It is difficult to attribute this systemic phenotype to brain beta-amyloid or tau proteins. Conversely, mitochondria increasingly appear to play a critical role in cell proteostasis, which suggests that mitochondrial dysfunction may promote protein aggregation. Mitochondrial and metabolism-related characteristics also define AD endophenotypes in cognitively normal middle-aged individuals, which suggests that mitochondrial and metabolism-related AD characteristics precede clinical decline. Genetic analyses increasingly implicate mitochondria and metabolism-relevant genes in AD risk. Collectively these factors suggest that mitochondria are more relevant to the causes of AD than its consequences, and support the view that a mitochondrial cascade features prominently in AD. This chapter reviews the case for mitochondrial and metabolism dysfunction in AD and the challenges of proving that a primary mitochondrial cascade is pertinent to the disease.

Indexed as

EndophenotypesProteostasisAlzheimer DiseaseBrain Diseases, MetabolicHumansMitochondrial DiseasesAlzheimer's diseaseMetabolismMitochondriaMitochondrial DNAProteostasis

Identifiers

PMID32739005
PMCPMC8493961
OpenAlexW3041386918

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