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ReviewFrontiers in aging neuroscience2018

IGF-1, Inflammation and Retinal Degeneration: A Close Network.

Ana I Arroba, Antonio Campos-Caro, Manuel Aguilar-Diosdado, Ángela M Valverde

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Review in Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers.

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49citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

49 citing papers in PubMed, 77 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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ana I ArrobaAlberto Sols Biomedical Research Institute (IIBm) (CSIC/UAM), Madrid, Spain.
Antonio Campos-CaroResearch Unit, Instituto de Investigación e Innovación en Ciencias Biomédicas de la Provincia de Cádiz (INiBICA), University Hospital "Puerta del Mar", Cádiz, Spain.
Manuel Aguilar-DiosdadoResearch Unit, Instituto de Investigación e Innovación en Ciencias Biomédicas de la Provincia de Cádiz (INiBICA), University Hospital "Puerta del Mar", Cádiz, Spain.
Ángela M ValverdeAlberto Sols Biomedical Research Institute (IIBm) (CSIC/UAM), Madrid, Spain.
Biomedical Research and Innovation Institute of Cadiz · ESInstituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas Sols-Morreale · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Retinal degenerative diseases are a group of heterogeneous diseases that include age-related macular degeneration (AMD), retinitis pigmentosa (RP), and diabetic retinopathy (DR). The progressive degeneration of the retinal neurons results in a severe deterioration of the visual function. Neuroinflammation is an early hallmark of many neurodegenerative disorders of the retina including AMD, RP and DR. Microglial cells, key components of the retinal immune defense system, are activated in retinal degenerative diseases. In the microglia the interplay between the proinflammatory/classically activated or antiinflammatory/alternatively activated phenotypes is a complex dynamic process that occurs during the course of disease due to the different environmental signals related to pathophysiological conditions. In this regard, an adequate transition from the proinflammatory to the anti-inflammatory response is necessary to counteract retinal neurodegeneration and its subsequent damage that leads to the loss of visual function. Insulin like-growth factor-1 (IGF-1) has been considered as a pleiotropic factor in the retina under health or disease conditions and several effects of IGF-1 in retinal immune modulation have been described. In this review, we provide recent insights of inflammation as a common feature of retinal diseases (AMD, RP and RD) highlighting the role of microglia, exosomes and IGF-1 in this process.

Indexed as

IGF-1inflammationmicroglia and exosomesneurodegenerationretina

Identifiers

PMID30026694
PMCPMC6041402
OpenAlexW2808442135

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