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ReviewFrontiers in pharmacology2014

The glial response to intracerebrally delivered therapies for neurodegenerative disorders: is this a critical issue?

Francesca Cicchetti, Roger A Barker

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Review in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
21citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% 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

21 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Tissue Response to Deep Brain Stimulation and Microlesion: A Comparative Study.Neuromodulation : journal of the International Neuromodulation Society · 2016
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  17. p38 MAPK and PI3K/AKT Signalling Cascades inParkinson's Disease.International journal of molecular and cellular medicine · 2015
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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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Francesca CicchettiAxe Neurosciences, Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec Québec, QC, Canada ; Département de Psychiatrie et Neurosciences, Université Laval Québec, QC, Canada.
Roger A BarkerJohn van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK.
Université Laval · CAUniversity of Cambridge · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The role of glial cells in the pathogenesis of many neurodegenerative conditions of the central nervous system (CNS) is now well established (as is discussed in other reviews in this special issue of Frontiers in Neuropharmacology). What is less clear is whether there are changes in these same cells in terms of their behavior and function in response to invasive experimental therapeutic interventions for these diseases. This has, and will continue to become more of an issue as we enter a new era of novel treatments which require the agent to be directly placed/infused into the CNS such as deep brain stimulation (DBS), cell transplants, gene therapies and growth factor infusions. To date, all of these treatments have produced variable outcomes and the reasons for this have been widely debated but the host astrocytic and/or microglial response induced by such invasively delivered agents has not been discussed in any detail. In this review, we have attempted to summarize the limited published data on this, in particular we discuss the small number of human post-mortem studies reported in this field. By so doing, we hope to provide a better description and understanding of the extent and nature of both the astrocytic and microglial response, which in turn could lead to modifications in the way these therapeutic interventions are delivered.

Indexed as

Alzheimer's diseaseastrocytescell transplantationdeep brain stimulationgene therapy for neurodegenerative diseasesHuntington's diseasemicrogliaParkinson's disease

Identifiers

PMID25071571
PMCPMC4090753
OpenAlexW2090790217

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