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ReviewBiomedicines2021

Critical Molecular and Cellular Contributors to Tau Pathology.

Liqing Song, Evan A Wells, Anne Skaja Robinson

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In one paragraph

Review in Biomedicines, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
25citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

25 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
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  3. ThebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  6. Twenty years of therapeutic development in tauopathy mouse models: a scoping review.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
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  9. Cell-cell communication: new insights and clinical implications.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2024
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  14. The innate immune response in tauopathies.European journal of immunology · 2023
    Review
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  18. Microglia-Astrocyte Communication in Alzheimer's Disease.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2023
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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Liqing SongDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
Evan A WellsDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4039-2921
Anne Skaja RobinsonDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7235-1481
Carnegie Mellon University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tauopathies represent a group of neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease (AD) that are characterized by the deposition of filamentous tau aggregates in the brain. The pathogenesis of tauopathies starts from the formation of toxic 'tau seeds' from hyperphosphorylated tau monomers. The presence of specific phosphorylation sites and heat shock protein 90 facilitates soluble tau protein aggregation. Transcellular propagation of pathogenic tau into synaptically connected neuronal cells or adjacent glial cells via receptor-mediated endocytosis facilitate disease spread through the brain. While neuroprotective effects of glial cells-including phagocytotic microglial and astroglial phenotypes-have been observed at the early stage of neurodegeneration, dysfunctional neuronal-glial cellular communication results in a series of further pathological consequences as the disease progresses, including abnormal axonal transport, synaptic degeneration, and neuronal loss, accompanied by a pro-inflammatory microenvironment. Additionally, the discovery of microtubule-associated protein tau (

Indexed as

Alzheimer’s diseaseapolipoprotein Eendocytosisneuroinflammationneuron-glial communicationprion-like propagationtauopathiestau self-aggregation

Identifiers

PMID33672982
PMCPMC7918468
OpenAlexW3132981077

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