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ArticleAdvances in neurotoxicology2021

NEUROTOXICITY OF METAL MIXTURES.

Vanda Lopes de Andrade, Ana Paula Marreilha Dos Santos, Michael Aschner

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Article in Advances in neurotoxicology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
18.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Vanda Lopes de AndradeResearch Institute for Medicines (iMed.ULisboa), Faculty of Pharmacy, Universidade de Lisboa. Av. Prof. Gama Pinto, 1649-003 Lisboa, Portugal.
Ana Paula Marreilha Dos SantosResearch Institute for Medicines (iMed.ULisboa), Faculty of Pharmacy, Universidade de Lisboa. Av. Prof. Gama Pinto, 1649-003 Lisboa, Portugal.
Michael AschnerAlbert Einstein College of Medicine. Einstein Center of Toxicology.1300 Morris Park Avenue. Bronx, NY 10461.
University of Lisbon · PTAlbert Einstein College of Medicine · US

Funding

Mechanisms of Manganese NeurotoxicityR01ES010563 · NIEHS · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Michael Aschner, Aaron B Bowman · 2001 to 2026
$11.9M
Mechanisms of Methylmercury Induced Neuron ToxicityR01ES007331 · NIEHS · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Michael Aschner, Aaron B Bowman · 1996 to 2026
$10.6M
NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES007331NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES010563
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Environmental exposures and/or alterations in the homeostasis of essential transition metals (ETM), such as Fe, Cu, Zn or Mn, are known to contribute to neurodegenerative diseases (ND), such as Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and Parkinson's Disease (PD). Aberrant ETM homeostasis leads to altered distributions, as significant amounts may accumulate in specific brain areas, while causing metal deficiency in others. The disruption of processes reliant on the interplay between these ETM, may lead to loss of metal balance and the ensuing neurotoxicity via shared mechanisms, such as the induction of oxidative stress (OS). Both ETM imbalance and OS may play a role, via complex positive loop processes, in primary neuropathological signatures of AD, such as the accumulation of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (NTF), and in PD, α-Syn aggregation and loss of dopamine(DA)rgic neurons. The association between ETM imbalance and ND is rarely approached under the view that metals such as Fe, Cu, Zn and Mn, can act as dangerous endogenous neurotoxic mixtures when their control mechanisms became disrupted. In fact, their presence as mixtures implies intricacies, which should be kept in mind when developing therapies for complex disorders of metal dyshomeostasis, which commonly occur in ND.

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Alzheimer diseaseAmyloid plaquesDopamine oxidationEssential transition metals mixturesFe-Cu-Zn-Mn dyshomeostasisLevy BodiesNeurofibrillary tanglesOxidative stressParkinson disease

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PMID34263093
PMCPMC8276944
OpenAlexW3181323505

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