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ArticleJournal of neurology, neurosurgery and spine2016

Neuroinflammation Induces Neurodegeneration.

D Kempuraj, R Thangavel, P A Natteru, G P Selvakumar, D Saeed, H Zahoor, S Zaheer, S S Iyer, A Zaheer

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Article in Journal of neurology, neurosurgery and spine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 459 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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459citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
23.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

459 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 687 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

D KempurajDepartment of Neurology, Center for Translational Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA; Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital, Columbia, MO, USA.
R ThangavelDepartment of Neurology, Center for Translational Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA; Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital, Columbia, MO, USA.
P A NatteruDepartment of Neurology, Center for Translational Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
G P SelvakumarDepartment of Neurology, Center for Translational Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
D SaeedDepartment of Neurology, Center for Translational Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
H ZahoorDepartment of Neurology, Center for Translational Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
S ZaheerDepartment of Neurology, Center for Translational Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
S S IyerDepartment of Neurology, Center for Translational Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA; Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital, Columbia, MO, USA.
A ZaheerDepartment of Neurology, Center for Translational Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA; Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital, Columbia, MO, USA.
University of Missouri · US

Funding

GMF-dependent neuroinflammation and neurodegenerationR01NS073670 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA · PI ZAHEER, ASGAR · 2011 to 2015
$1.6M
Therapeutic potential of GMF suppresssion in inflammation and neurodegenerationR01AG048205 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA · PI ZAHEER, ASGAR · 2015 to 2019
$1.6M
Glia maturation factor dependent mast cell activation in Parkinson's diseaseI01BX002477 · VA · IOWA CITY VA MEDICAL CENTER · PI ZAHEER, ASGAR · 2015 to 2017
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BLRD VA I01 BX002477NIA NIH HHS R01 AG048205NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS073670
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), and Multiple Sclerosis (MS) are characterized by neuronal degeneration and neuronal death in specific regions of the central nervous system (CNS). In AD, neurons of the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex are the first to degenerate, whereas in PD, dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra degenerate. MS patients show destruction of the myelin sheath. Once the CNS neurons are damaged, they are unable to regenerate unlike any other tissue in the body. Neurodegeneration is mediated by inflammatory and neurotoxic mediators such as interleukin-1beta (IL-1β), IL-6, IL-8, IL-33, tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), chemokine (C-C motif) ligand 2 (CCL2), CCL5, matrix metalloproteinase (MMPs), granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), glia maturation factor (GMF), substance P, reactive oxygen species (ROS), reactive nitrogen species (RNS), mast cells-mediated histamine and proteases, protease activated receptor-2 (PAR-2), CD40, CD40L, CD88, intracellular Ca

Indexed as

CytokineNeurodegenerationNeuroinflammationParkinson’s disease

Identifiers

PMID28127589
PMCPMC5260818
OpenAlexW2583168382

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