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ArticleCNS drugs2022

Slowing Parkinson's Disease Progression with Vaccination and Other Immunotherapies.

Dhanya Vijayakumar, Joseph Jankovic

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Article in CNS drugs, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Dhanya VijayakumarDepartment of Medicine, Prisma Health Upstate, The University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville, Greenville, South Carolina, USA.
Joseph JankovicDistinguished Chair in Movement Disorders, Parkinson's Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic, Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center at the McNair Campus, 7200 Cambridge, 9th Floor, Suite 9A, Houston, TX, 77030-4202, USA. josephj@bcm.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-5551-3784
Baylor College of Medicine · USPrisma Health · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder. There are several recognized pathways leading up to dopaminergic neuron loss in the substantia nigra pars compacta and other cells in the brain as a result of age-related, genetic, environmental, and other processes. Of these, the most prominent is the role played by the protein α-synuclein, which aggregates and is the primary component of Lewy bodies, the histopathological hallmark of PD. The latest disease-modifying treatment options being investigated in PD are active and passive immunization against α-synuclein. There are currently five different monoclonal antibodies investigated as passive immunization and three drugs being studied as active immunization modalities in PD. These work through different mechanisms but with a common goal-to minimize or prevent α-synuclein-driven neurotoxicity by reducing α-synuclein synthesis, increasing α-synuclein degradation, and preventing aggregation and propagation from cell to cell. These promising strategies, along with other potential therapies, may favorably alter disease progression in PD.

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alpha-SynucleinParkinson DiseaseDisease ProgressionHumansImmunotherapyVaccinationalpha-Synuclein

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PMID35212935
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