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ReviewBiomedicines2021

Macroautophagy and Mitophagy in Neurodegenerative Disorders: Focus on Therapeutic Interventions.

João Duarte Magalhães, Lígia Fão, Rita Vilaça, Sandra Morais Cardoso, Ana Cristina Rego

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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 14 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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

14 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
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  3. The Ubiquitin-Proteasome System in Brain Disorders: Pathogenic Pathways, Post-Translational Tweaks, and Therapeutic Frontiers.Journal of neuroimmune pharmacology : the official journal of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology · 2025
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  5. Role of the USP family in autophagy regulation and cancer progression.Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death · 2025
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  8. Parkinson's disease physiopathology-beyond theFrontiers in aging neuroscience · 2025
    Review
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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

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

João Duarte MagalhãesCNC-Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, 3004-504 Coimbra, Portugal.
Lígia FãoCNC-Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, 3004-504 Coimbra, Portugal.
Rita VilaçaCNC-Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, 3004-504 Coimbra, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-9961-0479
Sandra Morais CardosoCNC-Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, 3004-504 Coimbra, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-2199-0555
Ana Cristina RegoCNC-Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, 3004-504 Coimbra, Portugal.
University of Coimbra · PT

Funding

Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia POCI-01-0145-FEDER-032316, POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029621, PO-CI-01-0145-FEDER-030712, PTDC/MED-NEU/3644/2020 and UIDB/04539/2020Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia SFRH/BD/146409/2019 and SFRH/BD/148263/2019
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Macroautophagy, a quality control mechanism, is an evolutionarily conserved pathway of lysosomal degradation of protein aggregates, pathogens, and damaged organelles. As part of its vital homeostatic role, macroautophagy deregulation is associated with various human disorders, including neurodegenerative diseases. There are several lines of evidence that associate protein misfolding and mitochondrial dysfunction in the etiology of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's diseases. Macroautophagy has been implicated in the degradation of different protein aggregates such as Aβ, tau, alpha-synuclein (α-syn), and mutant huntingtin (mHtt) and in the clearance of dysfunctional mitochondria. Taking these into consideration, targeting autophagy might represent an effective therapeutic strategy to eliminate protein aggregates and to improve mitochondrial function in these disorders. The present review describes our current understanding on the role of macroautophagy in neurodegenerative disorders and focuses on possible strategies for its therapeutic modulation.

Indexed as

autophagymitophagy mitochondrial dysfunctionmutant proteinsneurodegenerative disorderstherapeutic strategies

Identifiers

PMID34829854
PMCPMC8615936
OpenAlexW3212249361

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