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ArticleCell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.)2021

Astrocyte senescence and SASP in neurodegeneration: tau joins the loop.

Kyra Ungerleider, Jessica Beck, Delphine Lissa, Casmir Turnquist, Izumi Horikawa, Brent T Harris, Curtis C Harris

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Article in Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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40citing papers in PubMed
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed, 64 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

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Kyra UngerleiderLaboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Jessica BeckLaboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0145-7606
Delphine LissaLaboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Casmir TurnquistLaboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5450-7590
Izumi HorikawaLaboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2893-5014
Brent T HarrisDepartment of Neurology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA.
Curtis C HarrisLaboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
National Institutes of Health · USGeorgetown University · US

Funding

p53, Aging, and CancerZIABC011496 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI HARRIS, CURTIS · 2013 to 2025
$21.1M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tau accumulation is a core component of Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative tauopathies. While tau's impact on neurons is a major area of research, the effect of extracellular tau on astrocytes is largely unknown. This article summarizes our recent studies showing that astrocyte senescence plays a critical role in neurodegenerative diseases and integrates extracellular tau into the regulatory loop of senescent astrocyte-mediated neurotoxicity. Human astrocytes

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AstrocytesCells, CulturedCellular SenescenceHumansNeurodegenerative DiseasesSenescence-Associated Secretory Phenotypetau ProteinsMAPT protein, humantau ProteinsAlzheimer’s diseaseastrocyte senescenceneurodegenerationp53 isoformsSASPtau

Identifiers

PMID33818291
PMCPMC8098067
OpenAlexW3141621609

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