Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34880449›Full record

ReviewMolecular psychiatry2022

Pyroglutamate Aβ cascade as drug target in Alzheimer's disease.

Thomas A Bayer

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Review in Molecular psychiatry, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
58citing papers in PubMed
6.5field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

58 citing papers in PubMed, 83 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Use of anti-amyloid-β monoclonal antibodies in persons with Down syndrome Alzheimer's disease.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
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  8. Phagocytes as plaque catalysts: Human macrophages generate seeding-competent Aβ42 fibrils with cross-seeding activity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  12. Acetylcarnitine in cerebrospinal fluid and blood as a protective factor for neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders: a mendelian randomization study.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025
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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.

Thomas A BayerDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Division of Molecular Psychiatry, University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), Georg-August-University Göttingen, 37075, Göttingen, Germany. tbayer@gwdg.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8453-228X
Universitätsmedizin Göttingen · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

One of the central aims in Alzheimer's disease (AD) research is the identification of clinically relevant drug targets. A plethora of potential molecular targets work very well in preclinical model systems both in vitro and in vivo in AD mouse models. However, the lack of translation into clinical settings in the AD field is a challenging endeavor. Although it is long known that N-terminally truncated and pyroglutamate-modified Abeta (Aβ

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Alzheimer DiseaseAmyloid beta-PeptidesAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalHumansMicePlaque, AmyloidPyrrolidonecarboxylic AcidAmyloid beta-PeptidesPyrrolidonecarboxylic Acid

Identifiers

PMID34880449
PMCPMC9126800
OpenAlexW4200292583

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