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ArticleFrontiers in molecular neuroscience2020

The Role of Cathepsin B in the Degradation of Aβ and in the Production of Aβ Peptides Starting With Ala2 in Cultured Astrocytes.

Timo Jan Oberstein, Janine Utz, Philipp Spitzer, Hans Wolfgang Klafki, Jens Wiltfang, Piotr Lewczuk, Johannes Kornhuber, Juan Manuel Maler

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Article in Frontiers in molecular neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Timo Jan ObersteinDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.
Janine UtzDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.
Philipp SpitzerDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.
Hans Wolfgang KlafkiDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany.
Jens WiltfangDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany.
Piotr LewczukDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.
Johannes KornhuberDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.
Juan Manuel MalerDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg · DEUniversity of Göttingen · DEUniversity Clinical Hospital In Bialystok · PL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Astrocytes may not only be involved in the clearance of Amyloid beta peptides (Aβ) in Alzheimer's disease (AD), but appear to produce N-terminally truncated Aβ (Aβ

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Alzheimer's diseaseamyloid betaastrocytescathepsin BlysosomalN-terminus

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PMID33510618
PMCPMC7836726
OpenAlexW3118490570

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