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ArticleJournal of neuroinflammation2004

Modelling neuroinflammatory phenotypes in vivo.

Marion S Buckwalter, Tony Wyss-Coray

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Article in Journal of neuroinflammation, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers.

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42citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

42 citing papers in PubMed, 91 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Marion S BuckwalterDepartment of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, 94305-5235, USA. twc@stanford.edu
Tony Wyss-Coray
Stanford University · US

Funding

Controlled Activation of Complement to Treat Alzheimer'sR01AG020603 · NIA · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI WYSS-CORAY, TONY · 2002 to 2006
$1.6M
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG020603
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inflammation of the central nervous system is an important but poorly understood part of neurological disease. After acute brain injury or infection there is a complex inflammatory response that involves activation of microglia and astrocytes and increased production of cytokines, chemokines, acute phase proteins, and complement factors. Antibodies and T lymphocytes may be involved in the response as well. In neurodegenerative disease, where injury is more subtle but consistent, the inflammatory response is continuous. The purpose of this prolonged response is unclear, but it is likely that some of its components are beneficial and others are harmful. Animal models of neurological disease can be used to dissect the specific role of individual mediators of the inflammatory response and assess their potential benefit. To illustrate this approach, we discuss how mutant mice expressing different levels of the cytokine transforming growth factor beta-1 (TGF-beta1), a major modulator of inflammation, produce important neuroinflammatory phenotypes. We then demonstrate how crosses of TGF-beta1 mutant mice with mouse models of Alzheimer's disease (AD) produced important new information on the role of inflammation in AD and on the expression of different neuropathological phenotypes that characterize this disease.

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PMID15285805
PMCPMC500895
OpenAlexW1485963240

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