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ReviewDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Blood Based Biomarkers of Central Nervous System Involvement in Wilson's Disease.

Agnieszka Antos, Anna Członkowska, Jan Bembenek, Marta Skowronska, Iwona Kurkowska-Jastrzębska, Tomasz Litwin

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Review in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 11% 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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Early neurological deterioration in Wilson's disease: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2023
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  6. Effect of primary copper metabolism disturbance on elemental, protein, and lipid composition of the organs in Jackson toxic milk mouse.Biometals : an international journal on the role of metal ions in biology, biochemistry, and medicine · 2025
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  7. Psychiatric Symptoms in Wilson's Disease-Consequence ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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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

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Agnieszka AntosSecond Department of Neurology, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, 9 Sobieskiego Str., 02-957 Warsaw, Poland.
Anna CzłonkowskaSecond Department of Neurology, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, 9 Sobieskiego Str., 02-957 Warsaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-1956-1866
Jan BembenekDepartment of Clinical Neurophysiology, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, 02-957 Warsaw, Poland.
Marta SkowronskaSecond Department of Neurology, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, 9 Sobieskiego Str., 02-957 Warsaw, Poland.
Iwona Kurkowska-JastrzębskaSecond Department of Neurology, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, 9 Sobieskiego Str., 02-957 Warsaw, Poland.
Tomasz LitwinSecond Department of Neurology, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, 9 Sobieskiego Str., 02-957 Warsaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-2670-9651
Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology · PL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Wilson's disease (WD) is an inherited disorder of copper metabolism with clinical symptoms related to pathological copper accumulation, which are mainly hepatic and/or neuropsychiatric. The disease is potentially treatable with pharmacological agents (chelators or zinc salts). As such, key factors for a favorable treatment outcome are early diagnosis and anti-copper treatment initiation as well as appropriate treatment monitoring for safety and efficacy. Despite the generally favorable outcome in most treated patients, almost 10% of the general population of WD patients and about 25% of patients in the group with initial neurological phenotype of disease experience early neurological deterioration. In almost 50% of patients with neurological symptoms, the symptoms persist. A search for new treatment modalities (e.g., gene therapy, molybdenum salts) aims to prevent early neurological deterioration as well as improve treatment outcomes. In addition to evaluating the clinical signs and symptoms of the disease, serum biomarkers for diagnosis and treatment monitoring are very important for WD management. Sensitive serum biomarkers of copper metabolism and liver injury are well described. However, there is a need to establish blood-based biomarkers of central nervous system (CNS) injury to help identify patients at risk of early neurological deterioration and aid in their monitoring. Based on the available literature and studies of WD patients, the authors reviewed serum biomarkers of CNS involvement in WD, as well as their potential clinical significance.

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copperexchangeable copperglial fibrillary acidic proteinmagnetic resonance imagingmicrotubule associated protein tauneurofilamentsubiquitin C-terminal hydrolasesWilson’s disease biomarkers

Identifiers

PMID37174946
PMCPMC10177361
OpenAlexW4367188966

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