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ReviewTrends in neurosciences2015

Innate Immunity Fights Alzheimer's Disease.

Marie-Victoire Guillot-Sestier, Kevin R Doty, Terrence Town

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Review in Trends in neurosciences, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

52 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Marie-Victoire Guillot-SestierZilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, 1501 San Pablo Street, Room 337, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2821, USA.
Kevin R DotyZilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, 1501 San Pablo Street, Room 337, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2821, USA.
Terrence TownZilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, 1501 San Pablo Street, Room 337, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2821, USA. Electronic address: ttown@usc.edu.

Funding

Peripheral TGF-beta Pathway Inhibitor Therapy in Alzheimer's RatsR01NS076794 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI CHANG, KAREN T, CHEN, JEANNIE · 2011 to 2021
$4.9M
NINDS NIH HHS 1R01NS076794-01NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS076794
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common age-related dementia. Pathognomonic accumulation of cerebral β-amyloid plaques likely results from imbalanced production and removal of amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides. In AD, innate immune cells lose their ability to restrict cerebral Aβ accumulation. At least in principle, mononuclear phagocytes can be enlisted to clear Aβ/β-amyloid from the brain. While the classical focus has been on dampening neuroinflammation in the context of AD, we hypothesize that rebalancing cerebral innate immunity by inhibiting actions of key anti-inflammatory cytokines returns the brain to a physiological state. Recent experiments demonstrating beneficial effects of blocking anti-inflammatory cytokine signaling in preclinical mouse models provide supportive evidence. This concept represents an important step toward innate immune-targeted therapy to combat AD.

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Alzheimer DiseaseAmyloid beta-PeptidesAnimalsBrainCytokinesDisease Models, AnimalHumansImmunity, InnateMiceMicrogliaAmyloid beta-PeptidesCytokinesamyloidapolipoprotein Eimmunotherapyinterleukin-10microgliaphagocytosis

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PMID26549882
PMCPMC4641041

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