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ReviewFrontiers in pharmacology2018

Toll-Like Receptor 2 Signaling and Current Approaches for Therapeutic Modulation in Synucleinopathies.

Ian F Caplan, Kathleen A Maguire-Zeiss

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Review in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
42citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

42 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 62 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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ian F CaplanBiology Department, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States.
Kathleen A Maguire-ZeissBiology Department, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States.
Georgetown University · USGeorgetown University Medical Center · US

Funding

PAR-1 Signaling and HANDR01NS083410 · NINDS · GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY · PI CONANT, KATHERINE E, MAGUIRE-ZEISS, KATHLEEN ANNE · 2013 to 2017
$1.9M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS083410
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The innate immune response in the central nervous system (CNS) is implicated as both beneficial and detrimental to health. Integral to this process are microglia, the resident immune cells of the CNS. Microglia express a wide variety of pattern-recognition receptors, such as Toll-like receptors, that detect changes in the neural environment. The activation of microglia and the subsequent proinflammatory response has become increasingly relevant to synucleinopathies, including Parkinson's disease the second most prevalent neurodegenerative disease. Within these diseases there is evidence of the accumulation of endogenous α-synuclein that stimulates an inflammatory response from microglia via the Toll-like receptors. There have been recent developments in both new and old pharmacological agents designed to target microglia and curtail the inflammatory environment. This review will aim to delineate the process of microglia-mediated inflammation and new therapeutic avenues to manage the response.

Indexed as

inflammationneuroinflammationnfkb pathwayParkinson's diseasesynucleinopathiesTLRtoll-like receptor 2

Identifiers

PMID29780321
PMCPMC5945810
OpenAlexW2796492196

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