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ReviewClinical medicine insights. Pathology2016

Interferon Gamma: Influence on Neural Stem Cell Function in Neurodegenerative and Neuroinflammatory Disease.

Apurva Kulkarni, Priya Ganesan, Lauren A O'Donnell

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Review in Clinical medicine insights. Pathology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 22% 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

26 citing papers in PubMed, 35 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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Apurva KulkarniMylan School of Pharmacy and the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Priya GanesanMylan School of Pharmacy and the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Lauren A O'DonnellMylan School of Pharmacy and the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Duquesne University · US

Funding

Neural stem/progenitor cell fate: pathology and protection during CNS infectionsR15NS087606 · NINDS · DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY · PI O'DONNELL, LAUREN ALENE · 2014 to 2014
$396k
NINDS NIH HHS R15 NS087606
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Interferon-gamma (IFNγ), a pleiotropic cytokine, is expressed in diverse neurodegenerative and neuroinflammatory conditions. Its protective mechanisms are well documented during viral infections in the brain, where IFNγ mediates non-cytolytic viral control in infected neurons. However, IFNγ also plays both protective and pathological roles in other central nervous system (CNS) diseases. Of the many neural cells that respond to IFNγ, neural stem/progenitor cells (NSPCs), the only pluripotent cells in the developing and adult brain, are often altered during CNS insults. Recent studies highlight the complex effects of IFNγ on NSPC activity in neurodegenerative diseases. However, the mechanisms that mediate these effects, and the eventual outcomes for the host, are still being explored. Here, we review the effects of IFNγ on NSPC activity during different pathological insults. An improved understanding of the role of IFNγ would provide insight into the impact of immune responses on the progression and resolution of neurodegenerative diseases.

Indexed as

interferon-gammaneural stem cellsneural stem/progenitor cellsneuroinflammationSTAT1virus

Identifiers

PMID27774000
PMCPMC5065109
OpenAlexW2531137176

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