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ReviewCNS neuroscience & therapeutics2016

Cysteinyl Leukotrienes and Their Receptors: Emerging Therapeutic Targets in Central Nervous System Disorders.

Arijit Ghosh, Fang Chen, Abhimanyu Thakur, Hao Hong

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Review in CNS neuroscience & therapeutics, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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40citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed, 78 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Structural basis of the cysteinyl leukotriene receptor type 2 activation by LTD4.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Arijit GhoshLaboratory for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders, Department of Pharmacology, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6408-749X
Fang ChenLaboratory for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders, Department of Pharmacology, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China.
Abhimanyu ThakurDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Hao HongLaboratory for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders, Department of Pharmacology, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China.
China Pharmaceutical University · CNCity University of Hong Kong · HK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cysteinyl leukotrienes are a group of the inflammatory lipid molecules well known as mediators of inflammatory signaling in the allergic diseases. Although they are traditionally known for their role in allergic asthma, allergic rhinitis, and others, recent advances in the field of biomedical research highlighted the role of these inflammatory mediators in a broader range of diseases such as in the inflammation associated with the central nervous system (CNS) disorders, vascular inflammation (atherosclerotic), and in cancer. Among the CNS diseases, they, along with their synthesis precursor enzyme 5-lipoxygenase and their receptors, have been shown to be associated with brain injury, Multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, brain ischemia, epilepsy, and others. However, a lot more remains elusive as the research in these areas is emerging and only a little has been discovered. Herein, through this review, we first provided a general up-to-date information on the synthesis pathway and the receptors for the molecules. Next, we summarized the current findings on their role in the brain disorders, with an insight given to the future perspectives.

Indexed as

Arachidonic AcidCentral Nervous System DiseasesCysteineHumansLeukotrienesModels, BiologicalReceptors, LeukotrieneArachidonic AcidCysteinecysteinyl-leukotrieneleukotriene D4 receptorLeukotrienesReceptors, LeukotrieneAlzheimer's diseaseCerebral ischemiaCysteinyl leukotrienes type 1 receptorG-protein-coupled receptor 17Multiple sclerosis

Identifiers

PMID27542570
PMCPMC6492851
OpenAlexW2508804568

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