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ReviewFrontiers in aging neuroscience2021

Does Soluble TREM2 Protect Against Alzheimer's Disease?

Guy C Brown, Peter St George-Hyslop

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Review in Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
27citing papers in PubMed
3.9field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

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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

27 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Guy C BrownDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Peter St George-HyslopDepartment of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
University of Cambridge · GBUniversity of Toronto · CA

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/L010593/1Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Triggering Receptor Expressed in Myeloid Cells 2 (TREM2) is a pattern recognition receptor on myeloid cells, and is upregulated on microglia surrounding amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Rare, heterozygous mutations in TREM2 (e.g., R47H) increase AD risk several fold. TREM2 can be cleaved at the plasma membrane by metalloproteases to release the ectodomain as soluble TREM2 (sTREM2). Wild-type sTREM2 binds oligomeric amyloid beta (Aβ) and acts as an extracellular chaperone, blocking and reversing Aβ oligomerization and fibrillization, and preventing Aβ-induced neuronal loss

Indexed as

Alzheimer's diseaseamyloid betamicroglianeurodegenerationneuroinflammationneuroprotectionsTREM2TREM2

Identifiers

PMID35153729
PMCPMC8831327
OpenAlexW4210627009

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