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ReviewNeuromolecular medicine2005

Controlled autoimmunity in CNS maintenance and repair: naturally occurring CD4+CD25+ regulatory T-Cells at the crossroads of health and disease.

Jonathan Kipnis, Michal Schwartz

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Review in Neuromolecular medicine, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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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

14 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
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  3. The Need for Physiological Micro-Nanofluidic Systems of the Brain.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2019
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  4. Regulatory T Cells in Post-stroke Immune Homeostasis.Translational stroke research · 2016
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  7. Microglial dysregulation in psychiatric disease.Clinical & developmental immunology · 2013
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Jonathan KipnisDepartment of Neurobiology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. jkipnis@unmc.edu
Michal Schwartz

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

T-cells directed to self-antigens ("autoimmune" T-cells) have traditionally been perceived as tending to attack the body's own tissues, and likely to exert their destructive effects unless they undergo deletion in the thymus during ontogeny. Naturally occurring CD4+CD25+ regulatory T-cells were viewed as thymus-derived cells that constitutively suppress any autoimmune T-cells that escaped thymic deletion. Studies in recent years suggest, however, that some autoimmune T-cells are necessary, at least in the central nervous system for neural maintenance and repair, possibly in part by rendering the resident microglia capable of fighting off adverse conditions, as well as for neural maintenance and repair. In line with this notion, the regulatory T-cells are thought to allow autoimmunity to exist in healthy individuals without causing an autoimmune disease. This proposed immune scenario and its implications for therapy are discussed.

Indexed as

AutoimmunityAnimalsCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesCentral Nervous SystemHomeostasisHumansMicrogliaNerve DegenerationReceptors, Interleukin-2Thymus GlandT-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryTrauma, Nervous SystemReceptors, Interleukin-2

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PMID16247180

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