Evidence map›Paper›PMID 25666795›Full record

ReviewCurrent medicinal chemistry2015

Inflammatory responses in brain ischemia.

Masahito Kawabori, Midori A Yenari

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Review in Current medicinal chemistry, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 154 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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154citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
6.9field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

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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

154 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 257 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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Masahito Kawabori
Midori A YenariDept. of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 4150 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA. Yenari@alum.mit.edu.
University of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

Inflammatory Mechanisms in Cerebral IschemiaR01NS040516 · NINDS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI YENARI, MIDORI A · 2001 to 2014
$4.6M
Heat shock proteins in brain ischemia and strokeI01BX000589 · VA · VETERANS AFFAIRS MED CTR SAN FRANCISCO · PI YENARI, MIDORI A · 2011 to 2019
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BLRD VA I01 BX000589NINDS NIH HHS NS40516NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS040516
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Brain infarction causes tissue death by ischemia due to occlusion of the cerebral vessels and recent work has shown that post stroke inflammation contributes significantly to the development of ischemic pathology. Because secondary damage by brain inflammation may have a longer therapeutic time window compared to the rescue of primary damage following arterial occlusion, controlling inflammation would be an obvious therapeutic target. A substantial amount of experimentall progress in this area has been made in recent years. However, it is difficult to elucidate the precise mechanisms of the inflammatory responses following ischemic stroke because inflammation is a complex series of interactions between inflammatory cells and molecules, all of which could be either detrimental or beneficial. We review recent advances in neuroinflammation and the modulation of inflammatory signaling pathways in brain ischemia. Potential targets for treatment of ischemic stroke will also be covered. The roles of the immune system and brain damage versus repair will help to clarify how immune modulation may treat stroke.

Indexed as

AnimalsBrain IschemiaHumansInflammationSignal Transduction

Identifiers

PMID25666795
PMCPMC5568039
OpenAlexW2036093656

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