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ReviewNeurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics2016

Astrocytes: Integrative Regulators of Neuroinflammation in Stroke and Other Neurological Diseases.

Egle Cekanaviciute, Marion S Buckwalter

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Review in Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 126 papers.

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126citing papers in PubMed
8.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
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

126 citing papers in PubMed, 215 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.

Egle CekanaviciuteDepartment of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford Medical School, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
Marion S BuckwalterDepartment of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford Medical School, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA. marion.buckwalter@stanford.edu.
Stanford Medicine · US

Funding

UCSF IRACDA Scholars ProgramK12GM081266 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Raymond M. Esquerra, HOLLY A. INGRAHAM · 2007 to 2026
$19.4M
TGFbeta signaling, reactive astrogliosis and function after strokeR01NS067132 · NINDS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI BUCKWALTER, MARION S · 2011 to 2015
$1.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS K12 GM081266NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS067132
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Astrocytes regulate neuroinflammatory responses after stroke and in other neurological diseases. Although not all astrocytic responses reduce inflammation, their predominant function is to protect the brain by driving the system back to homeostasis after injury. They receive multidimensional signals within the central nervous system and between the brain and the systemic circulation. Processing this information allows astrocytes to regulate synapse formation and maintenance, cerebral blood flow, and blood-brain barrier integrity. Similarly, in response to stroke and other central nervous system disorders, astrocytes detect and integrate signals of neuronal damage and inflammation to regulate the neuroinflammatory response. Two direct regulatory mechanisms in the astrocyte arsenal are the ability to form both physical and molecular barriers that seal the injury site and localize the neuroinflammatory response. Astrocytes also indirectly regulate the inflammatory response by affecting neuronal health during the acute injury and axonal regrowth. This ability to regulate the location and degree of neuroinflammation after injury, combined with the long time course of neuroinflammation, makes astrocytic signaling pathways promising targets for therapies.

Indexed as

AstrocytesAnimalsBlood-Brain BarrierHumansInflammationNervous System DiseasesStrokeAstrocyteBrain injuryGlial scarNeuroinflammationStroke

Identifiers

PMID27677607
PMCPMC5081110
OpenAlexW2524968585

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