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ReviewFrontiers in neuroscience2018

The Endocannabinoid System and Oligodendrocytes in Health and Disease.

Alexander A Ilyasov, Carolanne E Milligan, Emily P Pharr, Allyn C Howlett

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In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
53citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.3field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

53 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 82 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  8. Ageing, Neurodegeneration and the Endocannabinoid System.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2026
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  12. Physiology of Oligodendroglia.Advances in neurobiology · 2025
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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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alexander A IlyasovGraduate Program in Neuroscience, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, United States.
Carolanne E MilliganGraduate Program in Neuroscience, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, United States.
Emily P PharrGraduate Program in Neuroscience, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, United States.
Allyn C HowlettGraduate Program in Neuroscience, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, United States.
Wake Forest University · US

Funding

TROPANE EVALUATION AND GENERAL SCIENTIFIC SERVICES COREP50DA006634 · NIDA · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI PORRINO, LINDA J. · 1991 to 2019
$30.8M
Cannabinoid Receptors and Associated Proteins-RenewalR01DA042157 · NIDA · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI ALLYN C HOWLETT, W TODD LOWTHER · 2017 to 2026
$5.4M
NIDA NIH HHS P50 DA006634NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA042157
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cannabinoid-based interventions are being explored for central nervous system (CNS) pathologies such as neurodegeneration, demyelination, epilepsy, stroke, and trauma. As these disease states involve dysregulation of myelin integrity and/or remyelination, it is important to consider effects of the endocannabinoid system on oligodendrocytes and their precursors. In this review, we examine research reports on the effects of the endocannabinoid system (ECS) components on oligodendrocytes and their precursors, with a focus on therapeutic implications. Cannabinoid ligands and modulators of the endocannabinoid system promote cell signaling in oligodendrocyte precursor survival, proliferation, migration and differentiation, and mature oligodendrocyte survival and myelination. Agonist stimulation of oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) at both CB

Indexed as

2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG)CP55940HU210multiple sclerosis (MS)neural stem cells (NSCs)oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs)SR141716WIN55212-2

Identifiers

PMID30416422
PMCPMC6214135
OpenAlexW2893291146

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