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ReviewCells2020

Extracellular Vesicles in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease: Small Entities with Large Consequences.

Charysse Vandendriessche, Arnout Bruggeman, Caroline Van Cauwenberghe, Roosmarijn E Vandenbroucke

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Review in Cells, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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45citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

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

45 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  5. Condensates on the Move: Midbody Remnants as Large, Translation-Competent Extracellular Vesicles.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2026
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  12. Extracellular vesicles decoying across host immunity.Journal of leukocyte biology · 2025
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  13. Extracellular vesicle-based therapies for neurodegenerative diseases.NeuroImmune pharmacology and therapeutics · 2025
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  16. In-Depth Characterization of L1CAMInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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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

4 authors.

Charysse VandendriesscheVIB Center for Inflammation Research, VIB, 9052 Ghent, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-8645-6396
Arnout BruggemanVIB Center for Inflammation Research, VIB, 9052 Ghent, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-0161-9705
Caroline Van CauwenbergheVIB Center for Inflammation Research, VIB, 9052 Ghent, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-3438-6031
Roosmarijn E VandenbrouckeVIB Center for Inflammation Research, VIB, 9052 Ghent, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-8327-620X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) are incurable, devastating neurodegenerative disorders characterized by the formation and spreading of protein aggregates throughout the brain. Although the exact spreading mechanism is not completely understood, extracellular vesicles (EVs) have been proposed as potential contributors. Indeed, EVs have emerged as potential carriers of disease-associated proteins and are therefore thought to play an important role in disease progression, although some beneficial functions have also been attributed to them. EVs can be isolated from a variety of sources, including biofluids, and the analysis of their content can provide a snapshot of ongoing pathological changes in the brain. This underlines their potential as biomarker candidates which is of specific relevance in AD and PD where symptoms only arise after considerable and irreversible neuronal damage has already occurred. In this review, we discuss the known beneficial and detrimental functions of EVs in AD and PD and we highlight their promising potential to be used as biomarkers in both diseases.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseBrainExosomesExtracellular VesiclesHumansNeuronsParkinson DiseaseAlzheimer’s diseasebiomarkersextracellular vesiclesParkinson’s disease

Identifiers

PMID33203181
PMCPMC7696752

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