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ArticleFrontiers in cellular neuroscience2017

The Thymus/Neocortex Hypothesis of the Brain: A Cell Basis for Recognition and Instruction of Self.

Silvia Sánchez-Ramón, Florence Faure

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Article in Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Self and the Brain. The Immune Metaphor.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Silvia Sánchez-RamónDepartment of Clinical Immunology and IdISSC, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain.
Florence FaurePSL Research University, INSERM U932, Institut Curie, Paris, France.
Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Clínico San Carlos · ESUniversité Paris Sciences et Lettres · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The recognition of internal and external sources of stimuli, the self from non-self, seems to be an intrinsic property to the adequate functioning of the immune system and the nervous system, both complex network systems that have evolved to safeguard the self biological identity of the organism. The mammalian brain development relies on dynamic and adaptive processes that are now well described. However, the rules dictating this highly constrained developmental process remain elusive. Here we hypothesize that there is a cellular basis for brain selfhood, based on the analogy of the global mechanisms that drive the self/non-self recognition and instruction by the immune system.

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cortical neuron diversityeducationneocortexprogrammed cell deathself-tolerancethymus

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PMID29163052
PMCPMC5663735
OpenAlexW2765454897

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