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ArticleNature communications2020

Blood substitution therapy rescues the brain of mice from ischemic damage.

Xuefang Ren, Heng Hu, Imran Farooqi, James W Simpkins

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Article in Nature communications, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 41 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
41citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
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

The trial behind it

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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

41 citing papers in PubMed, 57 citations in OpenAlex.

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  18. Homer1 ameliorates ischemic stroke by inhibiting necroptosis-induced neuronal damage and neuroinflammation.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2024
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  20. Updates of the role of B-cells in ischemic stroke.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Xuefang RenDepartment of Neuroscience, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, 26506, USA. xuren@hsc.wvu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1387-501X
Heng HuDepartment of Neuroscience, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, 26506, USA.
Imran FarooqiDepartment of Neuroscience, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, 26506, USA.
James W SimpkinsDepartment of Neuroscience, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, 26506, USA. jwsimpkins@hsc.wvu.edu.
West Virginia University · US

Funding

West Virginia IDEA-CTRU54GM104942 · NIGMS · WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY · PI Anne Courtney DeVries · 2012 to 2026
$81.0M
WV INBRE: The Inhibitor of Growth Family Member 4 (ING4) inhibits L-Type Amino Acid Transporter 1 (LAT1) expression to suppress Breast CancerP20GM103434 · NIGMS · MARSHALL UNIVERSITY · PI GARY O RANKIN · 2012 to 2026
$61.1M
West Virginia University Stroke COBREP20GM109098 · NIGMS · WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY · PI DEVRIES, ANNE COURTNEY · 2014 to 2024
$24.5M
WVU Flow Cytometry and Single Cell Core Facility (FCSCCF)P20GM121322 · NIGMS · WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY · PI William Harry Walker · 2018 to 2026
$22.4M
Special Becton Dickinson Fortessa Flow CytometerS10OD016165 · OD · WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY · PI CUFF, CHRISTOPHER F · 2013 to 2013
$384k
NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM103434NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM109098NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM121322NIGMS NIH HHS U54 GM104942NIH HHS S10 OD016165
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acute stroke causes complex, pathological, and systemic responses that have not been treatable by any single medication. In this study, using a murine transient middle cerebral artery occlusion stroke model, a novel therapeutic strategy is proposed, where blood replacement (BR) robustly reduces infarctions and improves neurological deficits in mice. Our analyses of immune cell subsets suggest that BR therapy substantially decreases neutrophils in blood following a stroke. Electrochemiluminescence detection demonstrates that BR therapy reduces cytokine storm in plasma and ELISA demonstrates reduced levels of matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) in the plasma and brains at different time points post-stroke. Further, we have demonstrated that the addition of MMP-9 to the blood diminishes the protective effect of the BR therapy. Our study is the first to show that BR therapy leads to profoundly improved stroke outcomes in mice and that the improved outcomes are mediated via MMP-9. These results offer new insights into the mechanisms of stroke damage.

Indexed as

AnimalsBlood SubstitutesBrainBrain InfarctionBrain IschemiaCell DeathCytokinesDisease Models, AnimalInfarction, Middle Cerebral ArteryMaleMatrix Metalloproteinase 9MiceMice, Inbred C57BLNeutrophilsStrokeBlood SubstitutesCytokinesMatrix Metalloproteinase 9

Identifiers

PMID32843630
PMCPMC7447645
OpenAlexW3080907278

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