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ReviewFrontiers in pharmacology2021

The Dynamic Role of Microglia and the Endocannabinoid System in Neuroinflammation.

Alexander P Young, Eileen M Denovan-Wright

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Review in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers.

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42citing papers in PubMed
12.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

42 citing papers in PubMed, 79 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Timing matters: modeling the effects of gestational cannabis exposure on social behavior and microglia in the developing amygdala.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2025
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  9. The Interplay Between CBInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  20. Metabolic Endotoxemia: From the Gut to Neurodegeneration.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alexander P YoungDepartment of Pharmacology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
Eileen M Denovan-WrightDepartment of Pharmacology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
Dalhousie University · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microglia, the resident immune cells of the brain, can take on a range of pro- or anti-inflammatory phenotypes to maintain homeostasis. However, the sustained activation of pro-inflammatory microglia can lead to a state of chronic neuroinflammation characterized by high concentrations of neurotoxic soluble factors throughout the brain. In healthy brains, the inflammatory processes cease and microglia transition to an anti-inflammatory phenotype, but failure to halt the pro-inflammatory processes is a characteristic of many neurological disorders. The endocannabinoid system has been identified as a promising therapeutic target for chronic neuroinflammation as there is evidence that synthetic and endogenously produced cannabinoids temper the pro-inflammatory response of microglia and may encourage a switch to an anti-inflammatory phenotype. Activation of cannabinoid type 2 (CB

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CB2 receptorendocannabinoid systemGPCR (G protein coupled receptor)heteromerMAPK signalingmicroglianeuroinflammation

Identifiers

PMID35185547
PMCPMC8854262
OpenAlexW4210571347

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