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ReviewCells2022

Waste Clearance in the Brain and Neuroinflammation: A Novel Perspective on Biomarker and Drug Target Discovery in Alzheimer's Disease.

Kazuhiko Uchida

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Review in Cells, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
22citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

22 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Choroidal-ventricular system abnormalities are linked to amyloid-β aggregation in Alzheimer's disease.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
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  9. MRI markers of cerebrospinal fluid dynamics predict dementia and mediate the impact of cardiovascular risk.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
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  11. Cerebral small vessel disease: The impact of glymphopathy and sleep disorders.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kazuhiko UchidaFaculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennoudai, Tsukuba 305-8575, Ibaraki, Japan.
University of Tsukuba · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a multifactorial disease with a heterogeneous etiology. The pathology of Alzheimer's disease is characterized by amyloid-beta and hyperphosphorylated tau, which are necessary for disease progression. Many clinical trials on disease-modifying drugs for AD have failed to indicate their clinical benefits. Recent advances in fundamental research have indicated that neuroinflammation plays an important pathological role in AD. Damage- and pathogen-associated molecular patterns in the brain induce neuroinflammation and inflammasome activation, causing caspase-1-dependent glial and neuronal cell death. These waste products in the brain are eliminated by the glymphatic system via perivascular spaces, the blood-brain barrier, and the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier. Age-related vascular dysfunction is associated with an impairment of clearance and barrier functions, leading to neuroinflammation. The proteins involved in waste clearance in the brain and peripheral circulation may be potential biomarkers and drug targets in the early stages of cognitive impairment. This short review focuses on waste clearance dysfunction in AD pathobiology and discusses the improvement of waste clearance as an early intervention in prodromal AD and preclinical stages of dementia.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseAmyloid beta-PeptidesBiomarkersBrainHumansNeuroinflammatory DiseasesAmyloid beta-PeptidesBiomarkersAβ clearanceblood-brain barrierglymphatic systeminnate immunitymild cognitive impairment

Identifiers

PMID35269541
PMCPMC8909773
OpenAlexW4220779871

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