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ReviewTrends in neurosciences2020

Astrocytes and Microglia: In Sickness and in Health.

Ilia D Vainchtein, Anna V Molofsky

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In one paragraph

Review in Trends in neurosciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 288 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
288citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
27.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

288 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 455 citations in OpenAlex.

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228 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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 1 institution in 1 country.

Ilia D VainchteinDepartment of Psychiatry/Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
Anna V MolofskyDepartment of Psychiatry/Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA. Electronic address: anna.molofsky@ucsf.edu.
University of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

Coordinate regulation of neural circuit remodeling by glia: a prospective molecular approachDP2MH116507 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI MOLOFSKY, ANNA V · 2017 to 2017
$2.4M
Astrocyte-microglial communication in developmental synapse formationR01MH119349 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI MOLOFSKY, ANNA V · 2019 to 2023
$2.0M
NIMH NIH HHS DP2 MH116507NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH119349
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Healthy central nervous system (CNS) development and function require an intricate and balanced bidirectional communication between neurons and glia cells. In this review, we discuss the complementary roles of astrocytes and microglia in building the brain, including in the formation and refinement of synapses. We discuss recent evidence demonstrating how these interactions are coordinated in the transition from healthy physiology towards disease and discuss known and potential molecular mechanisms that mediate this cellular crosstalk.

Indexed as

AstrocytesMicrogliaHumansNeurogliaNeuronsSynapsesastrocytesbrain developmentmicroglianeuroimmunesynapses

Identifiers

PMID32044129
PMCPMC7472912
OpenAlexW3005292279

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