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ReviewCells2020

Novel PET Biomarkers to Disentangle Molecular Pathways across Age-Related Neurodegenerative Diseases.

Heather Wilson, Marios Politis, Eugenii A Rabiner, Lefkos T Middleton

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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 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% 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

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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 32 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

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Heather WilsonNeurodegeneration Imaging Group, University of Exeter Medical School, London W12 0BZ, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2225-0241
Marios PolitisNeurodegeneration Imaging Group, University of Exeter Medical School, London W12 0BZ, UK.
Eugenii A RabinerInvicro, Centre for Imaging Sciences, Hammersmith Hospital, London W12 0NN, UK.
Lefkos T MiddletonSchool of Public Health, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8615-3723
University of Exeter · GBImperial College Healthcare NHS Trust · GBKing's College London · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is a need to disentangle the etiological puzzle of age-related neurodegenerative diseases, whose clinical phenotypes arise from known, and as yet unknown, pathways that can act distinctly or in concert. Enhanced sub-phenotyping and the identification of in vivo biomarker-driven signature profiles could improve the stratification of patients into clinical trials and, potentially, help to drive the treatment landscape towards the precision medicine paradigm. The rapidly growing field of neuroimaging offers valuable tools to investigate disease pathophysiology and molecular pathways in humans, with the potential to capture the whole disease course starting from preclinical stages. Positron emission tomography (PET) combines the advantages of a versatile imaging technique with the ability to quantify, to nanomolar sensitivity, molecular targets in vivo. This review will discuss current research and available imaging biomarkers evaluating dysregulation of the main molecular pathways across age-related neurodegenerative diseases. The molecular pathways focused on in this review involve mitochondrial dysfunction and energy dysregulation; neuroinflammation; protein misfolding; aggregation and the concepts of pathobiology, synaptic dysfunction, neurotransmitter dysregulation and dysfunction of the glymphatic system. The use of PET imaging to dissect these molecular pathways and the potential to aid sub-phenotyping will be discussed, with a focus on novel PET biomarkers.

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Positron-Emission TomographyAgedAgingAnimalsBiomarkersClinical Trials as TopicHumansLigandsNeurodegenerative DiseasesPhenotypePrecision MedicineRadiopharmaceuticalsTreatment OutcomeBiomarkersLigandsRadiopharmaceuticalsbiomarkersneurodegenerationpositron emission tomographyprecision medicine

Identifiers

PMID33276490
PMCPMC7761606
OpenAlexW3107175160

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