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ArticleScientific reports2020

Innate Immune Functions of Astrocytes are Dependent Upon Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha.

Kyla R Rodgers, Yufan Lin, Thomas J Langan, Yoichiro Iwakura, Richard C Chou

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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37citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 55 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Kyla R RodgersDepartment of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Dartmouth College, One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH, 03756, USA.
Yufan LinDepartment of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Dartmouth College, One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH, 03756, USA.
Thomas J LanganDepartments of Neurology, Pediatrics, and Physiology and Biophysics, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA.
Yoichiro IwakuraResearch Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Tokyo University of Science, 2669 Yamazaki, Chiba, 278-0022, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9934-5775
Richard C ChouDepartment of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Dartmouth College, One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH, 03756, USA. richou@buffalo.edu.
Dartmouth College · USNew York State College of Agriculture & Life Sciences · USTokyo University of Science · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acute inflammation is a key feature of innate immunity that initiates clearance and repair in infected or damaged tissues. Alternatively, chronic inflammation is implicated in numerous disease processes. The contribution of neuroinflammation to the pathogenesis of neurological conditions, including infection, traumatic brain injury, and neurodegenerative diseases, has become increasingly evident. Potential drivers of such neuroinflammation include toll-like receptors (TLRs). TLRs confer a wide array of functions on different cell types in the central nervous system (CNS). Importantly, how TLR activation affects astrocyte functioning is unclear. In the present study, we examined the role of TLR2/4 signaling on various astrocyte functions (i.e., proliferation, pro-inflammatory mediator production, regulatory mechanisms, etc) by stimulating astrocytes with potent exogenous TLR2/4 agonist, bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Newborn astrocytes were derived from WT, Tnfα

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AnimalsAstrocytesCells, CulturedFlow CytometryImmunity, InnateInterleukin-1betaMiceRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyToll-Like Receptor 2Toll-Like Receptor 4Tumor Necrosis Factor-alphaInterleukin-1betaToll-Like Receptor 2Toll-Like Receptor 4Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha

Identifiers

PMID32341377
PMCPMC7184618
OpenAlexW3019351886

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