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ArticleAging and disease2010

The impact of glial activation in the aging brain.

Aileen M Lynch, Kevin J Murphy, Brian F Deighan, Julie-Ann O'Reilly, Yuri K Gun'ko, Thelma R Cowley, Rodrigo E Gonzalez-Reyes, Marina A Lynch

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Article in Aging and disease, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 65 papers.

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65citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

65 citing papers in PubMed, 99 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Aileen M LynchTrinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Kevin J Murphy
Brian F Deighan
Julie-Ann O'Reilly
Yuri K Gun'ko
Thelma R Cowley
Rodrigo E Gonzalez-Reyes
Marina A Lynch
Trinity College Dublin · IE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The past decade or so has witnessed a rekindling of interest in glia requiring a re-evaluation of the early descriptions of astrocytes as merely support cells, and microglia as adopting either a resting state or an activated state in a binary fashion. We now know that both cell types contribute to the optimal functioning of neurons in the healthy brain, and that altered function of either cell impacts on neuronal function and consequently cognitive function. The evidence indicates that both astrocytic and microglial phenotype change with age and that the shift from the resting state is associated with deterioration in synaptic function. In this review, we consider the rapidly-expanding array of functions attributed to these cells and focus on evaluating the changes in cell activation that accompany ageing.

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ageingAstrocytesCD200immune functionmicrogliaT cells

Identifiers

PMID22396865
PMCPMC3295033
OpenAlexW1716975759

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