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ReviewNature reviews. Neuroscience2015

Endocannabinoid signalling and the deteriorating brain.

Vincenzo Di Marzo, Nephi Stella, Andreas Zimmer

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In one paragraph

Review in Nature reviews. Neuroscience, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 173 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
173citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
24.8field-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

173 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 387 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Cys-loop receptors on cannabinoids: All high?Frontiers in physiology · 2022
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  3. Highway to hell or magic smoke? The dose-dependence of ΔLearning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2018
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  9. Cannabidiol-Ion Channel Interactions Represent a Promising Preventive and Therapeutic Strategy in Hepatocellular Carcinoma.Pathophysiology : the official journal of the International Society for Pathophysiology · 2026
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  10. Ageing, Neurodegeneration and the Endocannabinoid System.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2026
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  14. Understanding the Role of Endocannabinoids in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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113 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Vincenzo Di MarzoEndocannabinoid Research Group, Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078 Pozzuoli, Naples, Italy.
Nephi Stella1] Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington. [2] Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, University of Washington, 1959 Pacific Avenue North, Seattle, Washington 98103, USA.
Andreas ZimmerInstitute for Molecular Psychiatry, University of Bonn, Sigmund Freud Straße 25, Bonn 53127, Germany.
National Research Council · ITUniversity of Bonn · DEUniversity of Washington · US

Funding

Cannabinoid Signaling System in Microglial CellsR01DA014486 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI STELLA, NEPHI · 2001 to 2016
$4.2M
Role of ABHD6 in 2-AG SignalingR01DA026430 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI STELLA, NEPHI · 2009 to 2018
$3.4M
NIDA NIH HHS DA014486NIDA NIH HHS DA026430NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA014486NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA026430
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ageing is characterized by the progressive impairment of physiological functions and increased risk of developing debilitating disorders, including chronic inflammation and neurodegenerative diseases. These disorders have common molecular mechanisms that can be targeted therapeutically. In the wake of the approval of the first cannabinoid-based drug for the symptomatic treatment of multiple sclerosis, we examine how endocannabinoid (eCB) signalling controls--and is affected by--normal ageing and neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative disorders. We propose a conceptual framework linking eCB signalling to the control of the cellular and molecular hallmarks of these processes, and categorize the key components of endocannabinoid signalling that may serve as targets for novel therapeutics.

Indexed as

AgingAnimalsBrain DiseasesEndocannabinoidsHumansSignal TransductionEndocannabinoids

Identifiers

PMID25524120
PMCPMC4471876
OpenAlexW2014980565

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