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ReviewNeurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics2015

Neuroinflammation: Ways in Which the Immune System Affects the Brain.

Richard M Ransohoff, Dorothy Schafer, Angela Vincent, Nathalie E Blachère, Amit Bar-Or

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Review in Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 145 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
145citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
11.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

145 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 237 citations in OpenAlex.

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  18. Impact of Oral Immunity on Neuroinflammation and Neurodegenerative Diseases.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026
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85 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

5 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Richard M RansohoffBiogen, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA. Richard.ransohoff@biogen.com.
Dorothy SchaferUniversity of Massachusetts Medical School, Amherst, MA, USA.
Angela VincentUniversity of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Nathalie E BlachèreHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA.
Amit Bar-OrMontreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Biogen (United States) · USMcGill University · CARockefeller University · USUniversity of Massachusetts Chan Medical School · USUniversity of Oxford · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neuroinflammation is the response of the central nervous system (CNS) to disturbed homeostasis and typifies all neurological diseases. The main reactive components of the CNS include microglial cells and infiltrating myeloid cells, astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, and the blood-brain barrier, cytokines, and cytokine signaling. Neuroinflammatory responses may be helpful or harmful, as mechanisms associated with neuroinflammation are involved in normal brain development, as well as in neuropathological processes. This review examines the roles of various cell types that contribute to the immune dysregulation associated with neuroinflammation. Microglia enter the CNS very early in embryonic development and, as such, play an essential role in both the healthy and diseased brain. B-cell diversity contributes to CNS disease through both antibody-dependent and antibody-independent mechanisms. The influences of these B-cell mechanisms on other cell types, including myeloid cells and T cells, are reviewed in relationship to antibody-mediated CNS disorders, paraneoplastic neurological diseases, and multiple sclerosis. New insights into neuroinflammation offer exciting opportunities to investigate potential therapeutic targets for debilitating CNS diseases.

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Immune SystemAnimalsAntibodiesBrainCentral Nervous System DiseasesCytokinesHumansAntibodiesCytokinesB cellsCentral nervous systemimmunologyinflammationmicroglial cellsmultiple sclerosis.paraneoplastic syndromes

Identifiers

PMID26306439
PMCPMC4604183
OpenAlexW1144717940

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