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ReviewFrontiers in neuroscience2020

microRNA-Based Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease (AD).

Yuhai Zhao, Vivian Jaber, Peter N Alexandrov, Andrea Vergallo, Simone Lista, Harald Hampel, Walter J Lukiw

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In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers.

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59citing papers in PubMed
4.9field-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

59 citing papers in PubMed, 94 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Yuhai ZhaoLSU Neuroscience Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, United States.
Vivian JaberLSU Neuroscience Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, United States.
Peter N AlexandrovRussian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
Andrea VergalloSorbonne University, GRC n° 21, Alzheimer Precision Medicine (APM), AP-HP, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France.
Simone ListaSorbonne University, GRC n° 21, Alzheimer Precision Medicine (APM), AP-HP, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France.
Harald HampelSorbonne University, GRC n° 21, Alzheimer Precision Medicine (APM), AP-HP, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France.
Walter J LukiwLSU Neuroscience Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, United States.
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans · USRussian Academy of Sciences · RUAssistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris · FRPitié-Salpêtrière Hospital · FRSorbonne Université · FR

Funding

OCULAR HSV: LATENCY, REACTIVATION, &RECURRENCER01EY006311 · NEI · LSU HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER · PI HILL, JAMES M · 1985 to 2012
$5.3M
microRNA (miRNA) signaling in Alzheimer's disease(AD)R01AG038834 · NIA · LSU HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER · PI BAZAN, NICOLAS G. · 2011 to 2020
$3.3M
Gene Expression in Alzheimer's DiseaseR01AG018031 · NIA · LSU HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER · PI LUKIW, WALTER J · 2001 to 2006
$1.4M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY006311NIA NIH HHS R01 AG018031NIA NIH HHS R01 AG038834
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a multifactorial, age-related neurological disease characterized by complex pathophysiological dynamics taking place at multiple biological levels, including molecular, genetic, epigenetic, cellular and large-scale brain networks. These alterations account for multiple pathophysiological mechanisms such as brain protein accumulation, neuroinflammatory/neuro-immune processes, synaptic dysfunction, and neurodegeneration that eventually lead to cognitive and behavioral decline. Alterations in microRNA (miRNA) signaling have been implicated in the epigenetics and molecular genetics of all neurobiological processes associated with AD pathophysiology. These changes encompass altered miRNA abundance, speciation and complexity in anatomical regions of the CNS targeted by the disease, including modified miRNA expression patterns in brain tissues, the systemic circulation, the extracellular fluid (ECF) and the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). miRNAs have been investigated as candidate biomarkers for AD diagnosis, disease prediction, prognosis and therapeutic purposes because of their involvement in multiple brain signaling pathways in both health and disease. In this review we will: (i) highlight the significantly heterogeneous nature of miRNA expression and complexity in AD tissues and biofluids; (ii) address how information may be extracted from these data to be used as a diagnostic, prognostic and/or screening tools across the entire continuum of AD, from the preclinical stage, through the prodromal, i.e., mild cognitive impairment (MCI) phase all the way to clinically overt dementia; and (iii) consider how specific miRNA expression patterns could be categorized using miRNA reporters that span AD pathophysiological initiation and disease progression.

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AD biomarkersAD diagnosticsAD heterogeneityagingAlzheimer’s diseasehuman biochemical individualityinflammatory neurodegenerationmicroRNA (miRNA)

Identifiers

PMID33192270
PMCPMC7664832
OpenAlexW3097328676

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