Evidence map›Paper›PMID 33418848›Full record

ReviewLife (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Tau Oligomers Neurotoxicity.

Grazyna Niewiadomska, Wiktor Niewiadomski, Marta Steczkowska, Anna Gasiorowska

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Review in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 81 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
81citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
9.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

81 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 119 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Nuclear dysfunction in aging and neurodegeneration.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
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  13. Tau in Alzheimer's disease: Shaping the future patient journey.The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease · 2026
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  19. Entwined processes in Alzheimer's disease: Brain cellular senescence and Alzheimer's disease pathology.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
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21 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Grazyna NiewiadomskaNencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-3294-743X
Wiktor NiewiadomskiMossakowski Medical Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland.
Marta SteczkowskaMossakowski Medical Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland.
Anna GasiorowskaMossakowski Medical Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-2589-0148
Mossakowski Medical Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences · PLInstytut Biologii Doświadczalnej im. Marcelego Nenckiego · PL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although the mechanisms of toxic activity of tau are not fully recognized, it is supposed that the tau toxicity is related rather not to insoluble tau aggregates but to its intermediate forms. It seems that neurofibrillar tangles (NFTs) themselves, despite being composed of toxic tau, are probably neither necessary nor sufficient for tau-induced neuronal dysfunction and toxicity. Tau oligomers (TauOs) formed during the early stages of tau aggregation are the pathological forms that play a key role in eliciting the loss of neurons and behavioral impairments in several neurodegenerative disorders called tauopathies. They can be found in tauopathic diseases, the most common of which is Alzheimer's disease (AD). Evidence of co-occurrence of b-amyloid, α-synuclein, and tau into their most toxic forms, i.e., oligomers, suggests that these species interact and influence each other's aggregation in several tauopathies. The mechanism responsible for oligomeric tau neurotoxicity is a subject of intensive investigation. In this review, we summarize the most recent literature on the damaging effect of TauOs on the stability of the genome and the function of the nucleus, energy production and mitochondrial function, cell signaling and synaptic plasticity, the microtubule assembly, neuronal cytoskeleton and axonal transport, and the effectiveness of the protein degradation system.

Indexed as

genomemitochondrianeurotoxicityprotein degradationsignal transductionsynapsestau oligomerstauopathies

Identifiers

PMID33418848
PMCPMC7824853
OpenAlexW3119165379

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