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ReviewNeurobiology of disease2023

Sex-based differences in effector cells of the adaptive immune system during Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.

Jenny Lutshumba, Donna M Wilcock, Nancy L Monson, Ann M Stowe

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Review in Neurobiology of disease, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. The spleen-brain axis in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias: Integrating immune and metabolic regulation.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
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  8. The role of PI3K signaling pathway in Alzheimer's disease.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Jenny LutshumbaDepartment of Neurology, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America.
Donna M WilcockSanders-Brown Center on Aging, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America; Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America.
Nancy L MonsonDepartment of Neurology and Immunology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America.
Ann M StoweDepartment of Neurology, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America; Center for Advanced Translational Stroke Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America. Electronic address: Ann.stowe@uky.edu.

Funding

University of Kentucky Alzheimer's Disease Research CenterP30AG072946 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · PI LINDA J VAN ELDIK · 2021 to 2026
$23.5M
B Cells Directly Alter Adaptive Plasticity to Support Functional Recovery After StrokeR01NS088555 · NINDS · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI STOWE, ANN MARIE · 2015 to 2025
$2.8M
Contribution of plasmablasts in the conversion of transverse myelitis to multiple sclerosisR01NS102417 · NINDS · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI MONSON, NANCY L · 2018 to 2022
$2.8M
Diversity Supplement: B Cells Directly Alter Adaptive Plasticity to Support Functional Recovery After StrokeRF1NS088555 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · PI STOWE, ANN MARIE · 2021 to 2023
$1.3M
Biomarkers to track effective interventions that delay dementia onset in participants of the "Risk Reduction for Alzheimer's Disease (rrAD)" trialR56AG074613 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · PI GERMAN, DWIGHT C., STOWE, ANN MARIE · 2021 to 2021
$715k
Immune Profile Investigations of Alzheimer?s DiseaseR21NS104509 · NINDS · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI MONSON, NANCY L · 2018 to 2019
$446k
NIA NIH HHS P30 AG072946NIA NIH HHS R56 AG074613NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS088555NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS102417NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS104509NINDS NIH HHS RF1 NS088555
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neurological conditions such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementias (ADRD) present with many challenges due to the heterogeneity of the related disease(s), making it difficult to develop effective treatments. Additionally, the progression of ADRD-related pathologies presents differently between men and women. With two-thirds of the population affected with ADRD being women, ADRD has presented itself with a bias toward the female population. However, studies of ADRD generally do not incorporate sex-based differences in investigating the development and progression of the disease, which is detrimental to understanding and treating dementia. Additionally, recent implications for the adaptive immune system in the development of ADRD bring in new factors to be considered as part of the disease, including sex-based differences in immune response(s) during ADRD development. Here, we review the sex-based differences of pathological hallmarks of ADRD presentation and progression, sex-based differences in the adaptive immune system and how it changes with ADRD, and the importance of precision medicine in the development of a more targeted and personalized treatment for this devastating and prevalent neurodegenerative condition.

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Alzheimer DiseaseDementiaFemaleHumansImmune SystemMaleB lymphcoytesDementiaEstrogenTesosteroneT lymphocytes

Identifiers

PMID37330146
PMCPMC10481581

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