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ReviewJournal of neuroinflammation2020

Role of inflammasomes in multiple sclerosis and their potential as therapeutic targets.

Vaidya Govindarajan, Juan Pablo de Rivero Vaccari, Robert W Keane

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In one paragraph

Review in Journal of neuroinflammation, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
62citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.2field-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

62 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 107 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Inflammasomes in glioblastoma.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2026
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  4. The Roles of Interleukin-18 in Inflammation and Autoimmune Disease.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2026
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  6. Is Obesity a Modifiable Risk Factor in Multiple Sclerosis? Mechanistic Insights into Neuroinflammation and Oxidative Damage.Pathophysiology : the official journal of the International Society for Pathophysiology · 2026
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2 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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Vaidya GovindarajanDepartment of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, 1600 NW 10th Ave RMSB 5058, Miami, FL, 33136, USA.
Juan Pablo de Rivero VaccariDepartment of Neurological Surgery and The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, 33136, USA.
Robert W KeaneDepartment of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, 1600 NW 10th Ave RMSB 5058, Miami, FL, 33136, USA. rkeane@miami.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4068-9511
University of Miami · US

Funding

Role of ASC in TBI-Mediated Systemic Inflammation.R01NS113969 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI DE RIVERO VACCARI, JUAN PABLO, KEANE, ROBERT W · 2020 to 2024
$1.9M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS113969NINDS NIH HHS R01NS113969-01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS), and it remains the most common immune-mediated disorder affecting the CNS. While the cause of MS is unclear, the underlying pathomechanisms are thought to be either destruction by autoimmune T cells or dysfunction of myelin-producing cells. Recent advances have indicated that inflammasomes contribute the etiology of MS. Inflammasomes are multiprotein complexes of the innate immune response involved in the processing of caspase-1, the activation of pro-inflammatory cytokines interleukin (IL)-1β and IL-18 as well as the cell death-mediated mechanism of pyroptosis and the activation of the adaptive immune response. Here we review the literature to date on the role of different inflammasome signaling pathways in the pathogenesis of MS and how these pathways may be targeted to reduce deleterious inflammatory processes and improve outcomes in this patient population.

Indexed as

AnimalsCaspasesCytokinesHumansImmunologic FactorsInflammasomesMultiple SclerosisSignal TransductionCaspasesCytokinesImmunologic FactorsInflammasomescaspase-1EAEIL-1βInflammasomemultiple sclerosis

Identifiers

PMID32878648
PMCPMC7469327
OpenAlexW3082497244

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