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ReviewTrends in immunology2021

Diversity and Function of Glial Cell Types in Multiple Sclerosis.

Lucas Schirmer, Dorothy P Schafer, Theresa Bartels, David H Rowitch, Peter A Calabresi

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Review in Trends in immunology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers, 2 of them syntheses that 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

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

45 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  6. Cell death in multiple sclerosis.Cell death and differentiation · 2026
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  8. Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis pathogenesis alters along animal age: impact of S100B expression.Journal of neuroimmune pharmacology : the official journal of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology · 2025
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  15. The neuropathobiology of multiple sclerosis.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Lucas SchirmerDepartment of Neurology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany; Center for Translational Neuroscience and Institute for Innate Immunoscience, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany; Interdisciplinary Center for Neurosciences, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany. Electronic address: lucas.schirmer@medma.uni-heidelberg.de.
Dorothy P SchaferDepartment of Neurobiology and the Brudnik Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.
Theresa BartelsDepartment of Paediatrics, Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
David H RowitchDepartment of Paediatrics, Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Departments of Pediatrics and Neurosurgery, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Peter A CalabresiDepartment of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: pcalabr1@jhmi.edu.

Funding

Regulation of Cellular Pathwaysin Human Brain DevelopmentP01NS083513 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI ALVAREZ-BUYLLA, ARTURO · 2014 to 2024
$12.6M
The Role of KV1.3 in Effector T cellsR01NS041435 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI CALABRESI, PETER A · 2000 to 2025
$5.8M
Microglia-dependent mechanisms governing neural circuit plasticityR01MH113743 · NIMH · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI Dorothy Patricia Schafer · 2017 to 2026
$4.9M
Mechanisms by which effector T cells modulate endogenous remyelinationR37NS041435 · NINDS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI CALABRESI, PETER A · 2013 to 2019
$3.0M
Medical Research Council MC_PC_17230NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH113743NINDS NIH HHS P01 NS083513NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS041435NINDS NIH HHS R37 NS041435Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glial subtype diversity is an emerging topic in neurobiology and immune-mediated neurological diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS). We discuss recent conceptual and technological advances that allow a better understanding of the transcriptomic and functional heterogeneity of oligodendrocytes (OLs), astrocytes, and microglial cells under inflammatory-demyelinating conditions. Recent single cell transcriptomic studies suggest the occurrence of novel homeostatic and reactive glial subtypes and provide insight into the molecular events during disease progression. Multiplexed RNA in situ hybridization has enabled 'mapping back' dysregulated gene expression to glial subtypes within the MS lesion microenvironment. These findings suggest novel homeostatic and reactive glial-cell-type functions both in immune-related processes and neuroprotection relevant to understanding the pathology of MS.

Indexed as

Multiple SclerosisAstrocytesHumansMicrogliaNeurogliaOligodendrogliaastrocytesmicrogliamultiple sclerosisneuroinflammationoligodendrocytestranscriptomics

Identifiers

PMID33593693
PMCPMC7914214

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