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ReviewStroke2020

Blowing up Neural Repair for Stroke Recovery: Preclinical and Clinical Trial Considerations.

Nick S Ward, S Thomas Carmichael

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In one paragraph

Review in Stroke, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.4field-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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The Effects of Cannabinoids on Ischemic Stroke-Associated Neuroinflammation: A Systematic Review.Journal of neuroimmune pharmacology : the official journal of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology · 2025
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  4. Changes in synaptic density in the subacute phase after ischemic stroke: AJournal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2022
    Trial
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  12. The prospects for poststroke neural repair with vagal nerve stimulation.Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry · 2023
    Article
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  14. Cerebral ischemia in the developing brain.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2022
    Review
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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 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Nick S WardDepartment of Clinical and Motor Neuroscience, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London (N.S.W.).
S Thomas CarmichaelDepartment of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (S.T.C.).
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery · GBUniversity of California, Los Angeles · US

Funding

Mechanisms of White Matter Repair in Subcortical White Matter IschemiaR37NS102185 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI CARMICHAEL, STANLEY THOMAS · 2018 to 2024
$2.8M
The role of pericytes in scar formation following stroke and myocardial infarctionR01NS112256 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI CARMICHAEL, STANLEY THOMAS · 2020 to 2024
$2.2M
Molecular Mechanisms of Axonal Sprouting and Recovery from StrokeR01NS085019 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI CARMICHAEL, STANLEY THOMAS · 2014 to 2018
$1.7M
iPS-Glial Restricted Progenitors in White Matter Repair for StrokeR01NS103788 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI CARMICHAEL, STANLEY THOMAS, LOWRY, WILLIAM E · 2018 to 2022
$1.6M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS085019NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS103788NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS112256NINDS NIH HHS R37 NS102185
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The repair and recovery of the brain after stroke is a field that is emerging in its preclinical science and clinical trials. However, recent large, multicenter clinical trials have been negative, and conflicting results emerge on biological targets in preclinical studies. The coalescence of negative clinical translation and confusion in preclinical studies raises the suggestion that perhaps the field of stroke recovery faces a fate similar to stroke neuroprotection, with interesting science ultimately proving difficult to translate to the clinic. This review highlights improvements in 4 areas of the stroke neural repair field that should reorient the field toward successful clinical translation: improvements in rodent genetic models of stroke recovery, consideration of the biological target in stroke recovery, stratification in clinical trials, and the use of appropriate clinical trial end points.

Indexed as

Stroke RehabilitationAnimalsBrainDisease Models, AnimalHumansNeuronal PlasticityRecovery of FunctionStrokeconfusionmice, knockoutneurological rehabilitationpyramidal tractsrodentia

Identifiers

PMID32951539
PMCPMC7725428
OpenAlexW3087366854

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