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ReviewClinical reviews in allergy & immunology2021

Specialized Pro-Resolving Lipid Mediators: Emerging Therapeutic Candidates for Multiple Sclerosis.

Insha Zahoor, Shailendra Giri

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Review in Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
19citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 18% 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

19 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Role of Medicinal Plants in the Management of Multiple Sclerosis.Current pharmaceutical biotechnology · 2025
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  17. Fatty Acid Synthesis in Glial Cells of the CNS.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Insha ZahoorDepartment of Neurology, Research Division, Education & Research Building, Henry Ford Hospital, Room 4023, 2799 W Grand Blvd, Detroit, MI, 48202, USA. izahoor1@hfhs.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9919-1959
Shailendra GiriDepartment of Neurology, Research Division, Education & Research Building, Henry Ford Hospital, Room 4051, 2799 W Grand Blvd, Detroit, MI, 48202, USA. SGiri1@hfhs.org.
Henry Ford Hospital · US

Funding

Novel Regulation and Targeting of Macrophages Metabolism in Neuroinflammatory DisordersR01AI144004 · NIAID · HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM · PI GIRI, SHAILENDRA · 2019 to 2023
$1.9M
Endogenous metabolite restricts GM-CSF signaling pathway in pathogenic macrophages to ameliorate CNS AutoimmunityR01NS112727 · NINDS · HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM · PI GIRI, SHAILENDRA · 2019 to 2023
$1.6M
Henry Ford Hospital Internal Grant A10270National Multiple Sclerosis Society (US) RG-1807-31964NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI144004NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS112727
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neuroinflammatory disease in which unresolved and uncontrolled inflammation disrupts normal cellular homeostasis and leads to a pathological disease state. It has long been recognized that endogenously derived metabolic by-products of omega fatty acids, known as specialized pro-resolving lipid mediators (SPMs), are instrumental in resolving the pathologic inflammation. However, there is minimal data available on the functional status of SPMs in MS, despite the fact that MS presents a classical model of chronic inflammation. Studies to date indicate that dysfunction of the SPM biosynthetic pathway is responsible for their altered levels in patient-derived biofluids, which contributes to heightened inflammation and disease severity. Collectively, current findings suggest the contentious role of SPMs in MS due to variable outcomes in biological matrices across studies conducted so far, which could, in part, also be attributed to differences in population characteristics. It seems that SPMs have neuroprotective action on MS by exerting proresolving effects on brain microglia in its preclinical model; however, there are no reports demonstrating the direct effect of SPMs on oligodendrocytes or neurons. This reveals that "one size does not fit all" notion holds significance for MS in terms of the status of SPMs in other inflammatory conditions. The lack of clarity served as the impetus for this review, which is the first of its kind to summarize the relevant data regarding the role of SPMs in MS and the potential to target them for biomarker development and future alternative therapies for this disease. Understanding the mechanisms behind biological actions of SPMs as resolution mediators may prevent or even cure MS and other neurodegenerative pathologies.

Indexed as

AnimalsAutoimmunityBiological TherapyFatty Acids, Omega-3Fatty Acids, Omega-6HumansInflammationInflammation MediatorsMicrogliaMultiple SclerosisFatty Acids, Omega-3Fatty Acids, Omega-6Inflammation MediatorsAutoimmuneDemyelinationInflammationMultiple sclerosisResolutionSpecialized pro-resolving mediatorsTherapeutics

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PMID32495237
PMCPMC7958888
OpenAlexW3029369961

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