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ReviewNature reviews. Drug discovery2024

Targeting cytokine networks in neuroinflammatory diseases.

Burkhard Becher, Tobias Derfuss, Roland Liblau

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Review in Nature reviews. Drug discovery, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Burkhard Becher *Institute of experimental Immunology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. becher@immunology.uzh.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1541-7867
Tobias Derfuss *Department of Neurology and Biomedicine, Research Center for Clinical Neuroimmunology and Neuroscience Basel (RC2NB), University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. tobias.derfuss@usb.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8656-4250
Roland Liblau *Institute for inflammatory and infectious diseases, INSERM UMR1291 - CNRS UMR505, Toulouse, France. roland.liblau@inserm.fr.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5477-5475

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In neuroinflammatory diseases, systemic (blood-borne) leukocytes invade the central nervous system (CNS) and lead to tissue damage. A causal relationship between neuroinflammatory diseases and dysregulated cytokine networks is well established across several preclinical models. Cytokine dysregulation is also observed as an inadvertent effect of cancer immunotherapy, where it often leads to neuroinflammation. Neuroinflammatory diseases can be separated into those in which a pathogen is at the centre of the immune response and those of largely unknown aetiology. Here, we discuss the pathophysiology, cytokine networks and therapeutic landscape of 'sterile' neuroinflammatory diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS), neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD), neurosarcoidosis and immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS) triggered by cancer immunotherapy. Despite successes in targeting cytokine networks in preclinical models of neuroinflammation, the clinical translation of targeting cytokines and their receptors has shown mixed and often paradoxical responses.

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CytokinesNeuroinflammatory DiseasesAnimalsHumansImmunotherapyMultiple SclerosisCytokines

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