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ReviewNature reviews. Immunology2025

Immune control of brain physiology.

Mariángeles Kovacs, Amaia Dominguez-Belloso, Samir Ali-Moussa, Aleksandra Deczkowska

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Review in Nature reviews. Immunology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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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

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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

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. IL-17D reprograms CD93Cellular & molecular immunology · 2026
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  5. Single-Cell-Resolution Fate Mapping Reveals Embryonic Venous Origins of Fenestrated Hindbrain Choroid Plexus Vasculature.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  8. Gut: The gate and key to brain.Chinese medical journal · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Mariángeles Kovacs *Brain-Immune Communication Lab, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Inserm U1224, Paris, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0395-9124
Amaia Dominguez-Belloso *Brain-Immune Communication Lab, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Inserm U1224, Paris, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8969-9633
Samir Ali-Moussa *Brain-Immune Communication Lab, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Inserm U1224, Paris, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0000-9144-1351
Aleksandra DeczkowskaBrain-Immune Communication Lab, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Inserm U1224, Paris, France. aleksandra.deczkowska@pasteur.fr.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0844-4346

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The peripheral immune system communicates with the brain through complex anatomical routes involving the skull, the brain borders, circumventricular organs and peripheral nerves. These immune-brain communication pathways were classically considered to be dormant under physiological conditions and active only in cases of infection or damage. Yet, peripheral immune cells and signals are key in brain development, function and maintenance. In this Perspective, we propose an alternative framework for understanding the mechanisms of immune-brain communication. During brain development and in homeostasis, these anatomical structures allow selected elements of the peripheral immune system to affect the brain directly or indirectly, within physiological limits. By contrast, in ageing and pathological settings, detrimental peripheral immune signals hijack the existing communication routes or alter their structure. We discuss why a diversity of communication channels is needed and how they work in relation to one another to maintain homeostasis of the brain.

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BrainImmune SystemNeuroimmunomodulationAnimalsHomeostasisHumans

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