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ArticleAmerican journal of neurodegenerative disease2012

Microglial chemotactic signaling factors in Alzheimer's disease.

James G McLarnon

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Article in American journal of neurodegenerative disease, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
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

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

19 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

James G McLarnonDepartment of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia 2176 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z3.
University of British Columbia · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The net migration of microglia induced by deposits of amyloid beta (Aβ) constitutes a chemotactic response of resident neuroimmune brain cells. This process serves to localize clusters of microglia nearby Aβ deposits preparatory to cellular activation and functional responses. Microglial responses to Aβ deposits localized in brain parenchyma and in blood vessels lead to acute and chronic neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain. This review summarizes studies on the prominent chemotactic factors MCP-1, MIP-1α and IL-8 and also includes recent work indicating VEGF and fractalkine as chemotactic agents. The possibility that microglial release of MCP-1 may play a role in mediating chemotactic responses of neural progenitor cells is also considered. The plethora of chemotactic factors and their cognate receptors suggests the utility in testing pharmacological modulation of chemotaxis for effects to inhibit chronic neuroinflammation and confer neuroprotection in AD animal models.

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AD animal models.Alzheimer’s disease (AD)Chemotactic factorsinflammatory responsesmicroglial chemotaxis

Identifiers

PMID23383392
PMCPMC3560464
OpenAlexW63680513

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