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ReviewFrontiers in pharmacology2015

Importance of Apolipoprotein A-I in Multiple Sclerosis.

Lidia A Gardner, Michael C Levin

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Review in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 34% 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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Observational
  2. The Role of Lipid Alteration in Multiple Sclerosis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  4. Apolipoprotein A (ApoA) in Neurological Disorders: Connections and Insights.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  11. TemporalACS omega · 2020
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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 1 institution in 1 country.

Lidia A GardnerResearch Service, VA Medical Center , Memphis, TN, USA ; Department of Neurology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center , Memphis, TN, USA.
Michael C LevinResearch Service, VA Medical Center , Memphis, TN, USA ; Department of Neurology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center , Memphis, TN, USA ; Neuroscience Institute, University of Tennessee Health Science Center , Memphis, TN, USA.
Memphis VA Medical Center · US

Funding

Molecular Mimicry in Immune Mediated Neurologic DiseaseI01BX001996 · VA · MEMPHIS VA MEDICAL CENTER · PI TSAO, JACK W · 2013 to 2020
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BLRD VA I01 BX001996
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Jean-Martin Charcot has first described multiple sclerosis (MS) as a disease of the central nervous system (CNS) over a century ago. MS remains incurable today, and treatment options are limited to disease modifying drugs. Over the years, significant advances in understanding disease pathology have been made in autoimmune and neurodegenerative components. Despite the fact that brain is the most lipid rich organ in human body, the importance of lipid metabolism has not been extensively studied in this disorder. In MS, the CNS is under attack by a person's own immune system. Autoantigens and autoantibodies are known to cause devastation of myelin through up regulation of T-cells and cytokines, which penetrate through the blood-brain barrier to cause inflammation and myelin destruction. The anti-inflammatory role of high-density lipoproteins (HDLs) has been implicated in a plethora of biological processes: vasodilation, immunity to infection, oxidation, inflammation, and apoptosis. However, it is not known what role HDL plays in neurological function and myelin repair in MS. Understanding of lipid metabolism in the CNS and in the periphery might unveil new therapeutic targets and explain the partial success of some existing MS therapies.

Indexed as

ApoA-IATP- binding cassette transporter A1CNSFTY720 (fingolimodGilenya)HDLmultiple sclerosissphingosine 1 phosphate

Identifiers

PMID26635608
PMCPMC4654019
OpenAlexW2172669268

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