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ReviewAntioxidants (Basel, Switzerland)2022

The Role of the Thioredoxin System in Brain Diseases.

Geir Bjørklund, Lili Zou, Massimiliano Peana, Christos T Chasapis, Tony Hangan, Jun Lu, Michael Maes

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Review in Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
41citing papers in PubMed
4.2field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

41 citing papers in PubMed, 54 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

7 authors at 7 institutions in 6 countries.

Geir BjørklundCouncil for Nutritional and Environmental Medicine, Toften 24, 8610 Mo i Rana, Norway.ORCID 0000-0003-2632-3935
Lili ZouHubei Key Laboratory of Tumor Microenvironment and Immunotherapy, College of Basic Medical Sciences, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, China.
Massimiliano PeanaDepartment of Chemical, Physical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences, University of Sassari, Via Vienna 2, 07100 Sassari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3306-0419
Christos T ChasapisInstitute of Chemical Biology, National Hellenic Research Foundation, 11635 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-8728-6245
Tony HanganFaculty of Medicine, Ovidius University of Constanta, 900470 Constanta, Romania.
Jun LuSchool of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.ORCID 0000-0002-1699-8835
Michael MaesDepartment of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330, Thailand.
China Three Gorges University · CNChulalongkorn University · THNational Hellenic Research Foundation · GROvidius University · ROSouthwest University · CNThe Research Council of Norway · NOUniversity of Sassari · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The thioredoxin system, consisting of thioredoxin (Trx), thioredoxin reductase (TrxR), and NADPH, plays a fundamental role in the control of antioxidant defenses, cell proliferation, redox states, and apoptosis. Aberrations in the Trx system may lead to increased oxidative stress toxicity and neurodegenerative processes. This study reviews the role of the Trx system in the pathophysiology and treatment of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases, brain stroke, and multiple sclerosis. Trx system plays an important role in the pathophysiology of those disorders via multiple interactions through oxidative stress, apoptotic, neuro-immune, and pro-survival pathways. Multiple aberrations in Trx and TrxR systems related to other redox systems and their multiple reciprocal relationships with the neurodegenerative, neuro-inflammatory, and neuro-oxidative pathways are here analyzed. Genetic and environmental factors (nutrition, metals, and toxins) may impact the function of the Trx system, thereby contributing to neuropsychiatric disease. Aberrations in the Trx and TrxR systems could be a promising drug target to prevent and treat neurodegenerative, neuro-inflammatory, neuro-oxidative stress processes, and related brain disorders.

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Alzheimer’s diseaseantioxidantsHuntington’s diseasemetalsmultiple sclerosisoxidative stressParkinson’s diseasestroke

Identifiers

PMID36358532
PMCPMC9686621
OpenAlexW4307855539

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