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ReviewFrontiers in physiology2020

The Role of Basement Membranes in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy.

Matthew D Howe, Louise D McCullough, Akihiko Urayama

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Review in Frontiers in physiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 12% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. The life cycle of type IV collagen.Matrix biology : journal of the International Society for Matrix Biology · 2025
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  15. Utility of cerebrovascular imaging biomarkers to detect cerebral amyloidosis.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024
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  19. In vivo methods for imaging blood-brain barrier function and dysfunction.European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Matthew D HoweDepartment of Neurology, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States.
Louise D McCulloughDepartment of Neurology, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States.
Akihiko UrayamaDepartment of Neurology, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston · US

Funding

Promoting Research Training During Psychiatry ResidencyR25MH101076 · NIMH · BROWN UNIVERSITY · PI AUDREY TYRKA · 2013 to 2026
$2.8M
Glymphatic Clearance of Abeta is Impaired by Fibronectin in the Basement MembraneRF1AG057576 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI URAYAMA, AKIHIKO · 2017 to 2017
$2.2M
NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG057576NIMH NIH HHS R25 MH101076
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dementia is a neuropsychiatric syndrome characterized by cognitive decline in multiple domains, often leading to functional impairment in activities of daily living, disability, and death. The most common causes of age-related progressive dementia include Alzheimer's disease (AD) and vascular cognitive impairment (VCI), however, mixed disease pathologies commonly occur, as epitomized by a type of small vessel pathology called cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). In CAA patients, the small vessels of the brain become hardened and vulnerable to rupture, leading to impaired neurovascular coupling, multiple microhemorrhage, microinfarction, neurological emergencies, and cognitive decline across multiple functional domains. While the pathogenesis of CAA is not well understood, it has long been thought to be initiated in thickened basement membrane (BM) segments, which contain abnormal protein deposits and amyloid-β (Aβ). Recent advances in our understanding of CAA pathogenesis link BM remodeling to functional impairment of perivascular transport pathways that are key to removing Aβ from the brain. Dysregulation of this process may drive CAA pathogenesis and provides an important link between vascular risk factors and disease phenotype. The present review summarizes how the structure and composition of the BM allows for perivascular transport pathways to operate in the healthy brain, and then outlines multiple mechanisms by which specific dementia risk factors may promote dysfunction of perivascular transport pathways and increase Aβ deposition during CAA pathogenesis. A better understanding of how BM remodeling alters perivascular transport could lead to novel diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for CAA patients.

Indexed as

amyloid-betabasement membraneCAAdementiaperivascular transport

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PMID33329053
PMCPMC7732667
OpenAlexW3106660936

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