Evidence map›Paper›PMID 33139402›Full record

ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2020

Loss of TREM2 Confers Resilience to Synaptic and Cognitive Impairment in Aged Mice.

Wenhui Qu, Ling Li

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 35 papers.

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35citing papers in PubMed
5.8field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

35 citing papers in PubMed, 91 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Roles of TREM2 in Alzheimer's disease.Translational neurodegeneration · 2025
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  9. Microglial plasticity across development mediates infantile amnesia.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  12. Microglia, Trem2, and Neurodegeneration.The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry · 2025
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  14. Loss of TREM2 diminishes CAA despite an overall increase of amyloid load in Tg-SwDI mice.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024
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  19. Synapse Regulation.Advances in neurobiology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Wenhui QuGraduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455.
Ling LiGraduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 lil@umn.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-9245-7387
University of Minnesota · US

Funding

HDL Mimetic Peptide-Mediated Enhancement of Neurovascular Function to Mitigate Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy and Alzheimer's DiseaseRF1AG058081 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI LI, LING · 2018 to 2018
$1.9M
Dysregulation of Protein Prenylation in the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer's DiseaseRF1AG056976 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI DISTEFANO, MARK D, LI, LING · 2017 to 2017
$1.9M
NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG056976NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG058081
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2), a receptor exclusively expressed by microglia in the brain, modulates microglial immune homeostasis. Human genetic studies have shown that the loss-of-function mutations in TREM2 signaling are strongly associated with an elevated risk of age-related neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease (AD). Numerous studies have investigated the impact of TREM2 deficiency in the pathogenic process of AD. However, the role of TREM2 in shaping neuronal and cognitive function during normal aging is underexplored. In the present study, we employed behavioral, electrophysiological, and biochemical approaches to assess cognitive and synaptic function in male and female young and aged TREM2-deficient (

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AgingAnimalsCognitionCognitive DysfunctionDendritic SpinesFemaleHippocampusMaleMembrane GlycoproteinsMiceMice, KnockoutMotor ActivityNeuronal PlasticityNeuronsReceptors, ImmunologicSynapsesMembrane GlycoproteinsReceptors, ImmunologicTrem2 protein, mouseagingdendritic spine densitylearning and memorylong-term potentiationsynaptic plasticityTREM2

Identifiers

PMID33139402
PMCPMC7726534
OpenAlexW3095937064

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