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ArticleiScience2020

How Repair-or-Dispose Decisions Under Stress Can Initiate Disease Progression.

Andreas Nold, Danylo Batulin, Katharina Birkner, Stefan Bittner, Tatjana Tchumatchenko

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Article in iScience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 50% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Andreas NoldTheory of Neural Dynamics, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Danylo BatulinTheory of Neural Dynamics, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Katharina BirknerDepartment of Neurology, Focus Program Translational Neuroscience (FTN), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55131 Mainz, Germany.
Stefan BittnerDepartment of Neurology, Focus Program Translational Neuroscience (FTN), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55131 Mainz, Germany.
Tatjana TchumatchenkoTheory of Neural Dynamics, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz · DEMax Planck Institute for Brain Research · DEFrankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glia, the helper cells of the brain, are essential in maintaining neural resilience across time and varying challenges: By reacting to changes in neuronal health glia carefully balance repair or disposal of injured neurons. Malfunction of these interactions is implicated in many neurodegenerative diseases. We present a reductionist model that mimics repair-or-dispose decisions to generate a hypothesis for the cause of disease onset. The model assumes four tissue states: healthy and challenged tissue, primed tissue at risk of acute damage propagation, and chronic neurodegeneration. We discuss analogies to progression stages observed in the most common neurodegenerative conditions and to experimental observations of cellular signaling pathways of glia-neuron crosstalk. The model suggests that the onset of neurodegeneration can result as a compromise between two conflicting goals: short-term resilience to stressors versus long-term prevention of tissue damage.

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BioinformaticsMathematical BiosciencesNeuroscienceSystems BiologySystems Neuroscience

Identifiers

PMID33235980
PMCPMC7670198
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