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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2024

Interactions of Serum Amyloid A Proteins with the Blood-Brain Barrier: Implications for Central Nervous System Disease.

Michelle A Erickson, Anvitha P Mahankali

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Serum Amyloid A: A Double-Edged Sword in Health and Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
    Review
  6. Elevated Serum Amyloid A2 and A4 in Patients With Guillain-Barré Syndrome.Journal of clinical neurology (Seoul, Korea) · 2025
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  12. Transcriptomic profiling of "brain-eating amoeba"Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Michelle A EricksonGeriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Healthcare System, Seattle, WA 98108, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2575-1594
Anvitha P MahankaliDepartment of Medicine, Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98104, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Serum amyloid A (SAA) proteins are highly conserved lipoproteins that are notoriously involved in the acute phase response and systemic amyloidosis, but their biological functions are incompletely understood. Recent work has shown that SAA proteins can enter the brain by crossing the intact blood-brain barrier (BBB), and that they can impair BBB functions. Once in the central nervous system (CNS), SAA proteins can have both protective and harmful effects, which have important implications for CNS disease. In this review of the thematic series on SAA, we discuss the existing literature that relates SAA to neuroinflammation and CNS disease, and the possible roles of the BBB in these relations.

Indexed as

Blood-Brain BarrierSerum Amyloid A ProteinAnimalsCentral Nervous System DiseasesHumansSerum Amyloid A ProteinAlzheimer’s diseaseamyloidosisblood–brain barrierlipoproteinsneuroinflammationserum amyloid A

Identifiers

PMID38928312
PMCPMC11204325

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