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ReviewJournal of Parkinson's disease2022

Inflammasome Activation in Parkinson's Disease.

Shannon Jewell, Ashane M Herath, Richard Gordon

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Review in Journal of Parkinson's disease, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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33citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
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

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

33 citing papers in PubMed, 43 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shannon JewellUQ Centre for Clinical Research, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Ashane M HerathUQ Centre for Clinical Research, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Richard GordonUQ Centre for Clinical Research, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
The University of Queensland · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chronic sterile inflammation and persistent immune activation is a prominent pathological feature of Parkinson's disease (PD). Inflammasomes are multi-protein intracellular signaling complexes which orchestrate inflammatory responses in immune cells to a diverse range of pathogens and host-derived signals. Widespread inflammasome activation is evident in PD patients at the sites of dopaminergic degeneration as well as in blood samples and mucosal biopsies. Inflammasome activation in the nigrostriatal system is also a common pathological feature in both neurotoxicant and α-synuclein models of PD where dopaminergic degeneration occurs through distinct mechanisms. The NLRP3 (NLR Family Pyrin Domain Containing 3) inflammasome has been shown to be the primary driver of inflammatory neurotoxicity in PD and other neurodegenerative diseases. Chronic NLRP3 inflammasome activation is triggered by pathogenic misfolded α-synuclein aggregates which accumulate and spread over the disease course in PD. Converging lines of evidence suggest that blocking inflammasome activation could be a promising therapeutic strategy for disease modification, with both NLRP3 knockout mice and CNS-permeable pharmacological inhibitors providing robust neuroprotection in multiple PD models. This review summarizes the current evidence and knowledge gaps around inflammasome activation in PD, the pathological mechanisms by which persistent inflammasome activation can drive dopaminergic degeneration and the therapeutic opportunities for disease modification using NLRP3 inhibitors.

Indexed as

InflammasomesParkinson Diseasealpha-SynucleinAnimalsDopamineDopaminergic NeuronsInflammationMiceMice, KnockoutMicrogliaNLR Family, Pyrin Domain-Containing 3 Proteinalpha-SynucleinDopamineInflammasomesNLR Family, Pyrin Domain-Containing 3 Proteinimmune systeminflammasomeinflammationmicroglianeurodegenerationNLRP3Parkinson’s disease

Identifiers

PMID35848038
PMCPMC9535572
OpenAlexW4285598065

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