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ReviewBrain plasticity (Amsterdam, Netherlands)2021

Preventing and Treating Neurological Disorders with the Flavonol Fisetin.

Pamela Maher

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Review in Brain plasticity (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
33citing papers in PubMed
6.4field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

33 citing papers in PubMed, 76 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Impact of Oxidative Stress-Driven Ferroptosis in Neurodegeneration.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Pamela MaherSalk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla, CA.
Salk Institute for Biological Studies · US

Funding

The Contribution of Old Age-Associated Proteotoxicity to Inflammation and DementiaRF1AG054714 · NIA · SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES · PI FISCHER, WOLFGANG H, MAHER, PAMELA ANNE · 2017 to 2017
$3.6M
NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG054714
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neurological disorders, including neurodegenerative diseases, have a significant negative impact on both patients and society at large. Since the prevalence of most of these disorders increases with age, the consequences for our aging population are only going to grow. It is now acknowledged that neurological disorders are multi-factorial involving disruptions in multiple cellular systems. While each disorder has specific initiating mechanisms and pathologies, certain common pathways appear to be involved in most, if not all, neurological disorders. Thus, it is becoming increasingly important to identify compounds that can modulate the multiple pathways that contribute to disease development or progression. One of these compounds is the flavonol fisetin. Fisetin has now been shown in preclinical models to be effective at preventing the development and/or progression of multiple neurological disorders including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, stroke (both ischemic and hemorrhagic) and traumatic brain injury as well as to reduce age-associated changes in the brain. These beneficial effects stem from its actions on multiple pathways associated with the different neurological disorders. These actions include its well characterized anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant effects as well as more recently described effects on the regulated cell death oxytosis/ferroptosis pathway, the gut microbiome and its senolytic activity. Therefore, the growing body of pre-clinical data, along with fisetin's ability to modulate a large number of pathways associated with brain dysfunction, strongly suggest that it would be worthwhile to pursue its therapeutic effects in humans.

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Agingferroptosisinflammationoxidative stressoxytosis

Identifiers

PMID33782648
PMCPMC7990461
OpenAlexW3037684475

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