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ReviewMediators of inflammation2013

Cytokines and chemokines at the crossroads of neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration, and neuropathic pain.

Geeta Ramesh, Andrew G MacLean, Mario T Philipp

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Review in Mediators of inflammation, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 360 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
360citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
21.0field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

360 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 627 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Physical exercise and inflammation in Parkinson's disease: a review.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025
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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Geeta RameshDivision of Bacteriology and Parasitology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University, 18703 Three Rivers Road, Covington, LA 70433, USA. gramesh@tulane.edu
Andrew G MacLean
Mario T Philipp
Tulane University · US

Funding

Tulane NPRC SPF Sheltered Outdoor Enclosure ExpansionP51OD011104 · OD · TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI L Lee HAMM · 2012 to 2026
$142.4M
ZCM:A NOVEL BROAD-SPECTRUM MICROBICIDE FOR SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONSP51RR000164 · NCRR · TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI VEAZEY, RONALD S. · 1985 to 2011
$100.1M
Lyme neuroborreliosis pathogenesis in the rhesus monkeyR01NS048952 · NINDS · TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI PHILIPP, MARIO TOMAS · 2004 to 2014
$4.8M
Focal Adhesion Kinase in disruption of the blood-brain barrier in encephalitisR01MH077544 · NIMH · TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI MACLEAN, ANDREW G · 2007 to 2011
$2.0M
NCRR NIH HHS P51 RR000164NIH HHS 51OD011104/P51RR000164NIH HHS P51 OD011104NIMH NIH HHS MH077544NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH077544NINDS NIH HHS NS048952NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS048952
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cytokines and chemokines are proteins that coordinate the immune response throughout the body. The dysregulation of cytokines and chemokines is a central feature in the development of neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration, and demyelination both in the central and peripheral nervous systems and in conditions of neuropathic pain. Pathological states within the nervous system can lead to activation of microglia. The latter may mediate neuronal and glial cell injury and death through production of proinflammatory factors such as cytokines and chemokines. These then help to mobilize the adaptive immune response. Although inflammation may induce beneficial effects such as pathogen clearance and phagocytosis of apoptotic cells, uncontrolled inflammation can result in detrimental outcomes via the production of neurotoxic factors that exacerbate neurodegenerative pathology. In states of prolonged inflammation, continual activation and recruitment of effector cells can establish a feedback loop that perpetuates inflammation and ultimately results in neuronal injury. A critical balance between repair and proinflammatory factors determines the outcome of a neurodegenerative process. This review will focus on how cytokines and chemokines affect neuroinflammation and disease pathogenesis in bacterial meningitis and brain abscesses, Lyme neuroborreliosis, human immunodeficiency virus encephalitis, and neuropathic pain.

Indexed as

AnimalsAstrocytesBrain AbscessChemokinesCytokinesEncephalitisHIV InfectionsHumansInflammationLyme NeuroborreliosisMeningitis, BacterialMeningitis, PneumococcalMicrogliaNeuralgiaNeurodegenerative DiseasesPhagocytosisChemokinesCytokines

Identifiers

PMID23997430
PMCPMC3753746
OpenAlexW2119337283

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