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ReviewAgeing research reviews2021

Region-specific vulnerability in neurodegeneration: lessons from normal ageing.

Virenkumar A Pandya, Rickie Patani

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Review in Ageing research reviews, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 60 papers.

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60citing papers in PubMed
4.5field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

60 citing papers in PubMed, 84 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Virenkumar A PandyaDepartment of Neuromuscular Diseases, University College London Queen Square Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG, UK; The Francis Crick Institute, 1 Midland Road, London, NW1 1AT, UK.
Rickie PataniDepartment of Neuromuscular Diseases, University College London Queen Square Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG, UK; The Francis Crick Institute, 1 Midland Road, London, NW1 1AT, UK. Electronic address: rickie.patani@ucl.ac.uk.
The Francis Crick Institute · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/S006591/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A number of age-associated neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), possess a shared characteristic of region-specific neurodegeneration. However, the mechanisms which determine why particular regions within the nervous system are selectively vulnerable to neurodegeneration, whilst others remain relatively unaffected throughout disease progression, remain elusive. Here, we review how regional susceptibility to the ubiquitous physiological phenomenon of normal ageing might underlie the vulnerability of these same regions to neurodegeneration, highlighting three regions archetypally associated with AD, PD and ALS (the hippocampus, substantia nigra pars compacta and ventral spinal cord, respectively), as especially prone to age-related alterations. Placing particular emphasis on these three regions, we comprehensively explore differential regional susceptibility to nervous system tissue, cellular and molecular level ageing to provide an integrated perspective on why age-related neurodegenerative diseases exhibit region-selective vulnerability. Combining these principles with increasingly recognised differences between chronological and biological ageing (termed differential or 'delta' ageing) might ultimately guide therapeutic approaches for these devastating neurodegenerative diseases, for which a paucity of disease modifying and/or life promoting treatments currently exist.

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Alzheimer DiseaseAmyotrophic Lateral SclerosisParkinson DiseaseAgingHumansAgeingAlzheimer’s diseaseAmyotrophic lateral sclerosisParkinson’s diseaseRegion-specificSelective vulnerability

Identifiers

PMID33639280
PMCPMC8024744
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