Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32824215›Full record

ReviewBiomolecules2020

Carl Alexander Sandhof, Simon Oliver Hoppe, Jessica Tittelmeier, Carmen Nussbaum-Krammer

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Review in Biomolecules, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. From aggregate structure to disease trajectory: the role of the proteostasis network.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2026
    Review
  2. Article
  3. Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2026
    Review
  4. A novelAutophagy · 2025
    Article
  5. Unraveling Molecular Targets for Neurodegenerative Diseases ThroughInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
    Review
  6. Review
  7. Article
  8. Invertebrate genetic models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2024
    Review
  9. Review
  10. The role of wild-type tau in Alzheimer's disease and related tauopathies.Journal of life sciences (Westlake Village, Calif.) · 2020
    Article
  11. Brain sciences · 2020
    Review
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

4 authors.

Carl Alexander SandhofCenter for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH) and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Im Neuenheimer Feld 282, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8692-6987
Simon Oliver HoppeCenter for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH) and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Im Neuenheimer Feld 282, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8733-0904
Jessica TittelmeierCenter for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH) and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Im Neuenheimer Feld 282, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
Carmen Nussbaum-KrammerCenter for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH) and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Im Neuenheimer Feld 282, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8689-1363

Funding

Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung 01ED1807BDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 201348542
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A hallmark common to many age-related neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), is that patients develop proteinaceous deposits in their central nervous system (CNS). The progressive spreading of these inclusions from initially affected sites to interconnected brain areas is reminiscent of the behavior of bona fide prions in transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), hence the term prion-like proteins has been coined. Despite intensive research, the exact mechanisms that facilitate the spreading of protein aggregation between cells, and the associated loss of neurons, remain poorly understood. As population demographics in many countries continue to shift to higher life expectancy, the incidence of neurodegenerative diseases is also rising. This represents a major challenge for healthcare systems and patients' families, since patients require extensive support over several years and there is still no therapy to cure or stop these diseases. The model organism

Indexed as

Caenorhabditis elegansAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalHumansNeurodegenerative DiseasesPrionsProtein AggregatesPrionsProtein AggregatesC. elegansintercellular spreadingneurodegenerative diseasesprion-like propagationprions

Identifiers

PMID32824215
PMCPMC7464663

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