ReviewJournal of neurotrauma2023
Interleukin-6 in Traumatic Brain Injury: A Janus-Faced Player in Damage and Repair.
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30 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 36 citations in OpenAlex.
- Governor vessel acupuncture therapy in experimental ischemic stroke: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Pathway-level proteomics identifies subcellular trafficking dysregulation as a molecular signature in severe traumatic brain injury.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2026Article
- Exploring the role of tocotrienol-rich fraction (TRF) in ameliorating neuroinflammation.Inflammopharmacology · 2026Article
- Inflammatory blood-based biomarkers to aid in the assessment and prognostication of traumatic brain injury: a TRACK-TBI study.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2026Article
- Repeated head impacts establish a senescent cranial bone marrow niche that impairs brain metabolism.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2026Article
- Network pharmacology analysis and cellular experiment validation of puerarin in attenuating TBI through suppression of ferroptosis.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Age-dependent neuroprotection and inflammatory responses to mild therapeutic hypothermia following cardiac arrest.Resuscitation plus · 2026Article
- Endothelin-1 induces Zfp36 family RNA-binding proteins and restrains cytokine and chemokine production in reactive astrocytes.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2026Article
- Do Serum Brain Biomarkers Differentiate the Hemorrhagic Head Injury Lesion Phenotypes? An Interim Analysis of an On-Going Randomized Clinical Trial.Biomedicines · 2026Article
- Concurrent Toxoplasma gondii infection and neuroinflammation in traumatic brain injury patients in a referral hospital in Douala Cameroon.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Neuron-targeted 2-deoxyglucose-dendrimer-rosiglitazone nanotherapy mitigates neuroinflammation and cognitive deficits in pediatric traumatic brain injury.Bioengineering & translational medicine · 2026Article
- Systemic inflammation and its associations in acute moderate-severe Traumatic Brain Injury: a cross-sectional study.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2026Article
- The role of NSE/GCS ratio on the seventh day as an independent predictor of 90-day outcomes in patients with severe traumatic brain injury.Journal of medical biochemistry · 2026Article
- Repeated Mild Head Injury Establishes a Senescent Cranial Bone Marrow Niche that Impairs Brain Metabolism.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Curcumol alleviates cardiac and cerebral injury caused by encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV) in Kunming mice via suppressing NF-κB/NLRP3 inflammasome pathway.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Article
- Peritumoral edema in meningiomas: a review of influencing factors, mechanisms, and management.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Review
- Serum interleukin-6 as a neuroinflammatory biomarker across the spectrum of neurological disorders: a large-scale retrospective cohort study of 6,465 individuals.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Observational
- Cytoprotective and Immunomodulatory Properties of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Secretome and Its Effect on Organotypic Hippocampal Cultures in Mouse Model of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Delivery of a fibrin-binding hemostatic polymer ameliorates neurovascular damage and neural tissue loss after traumatic brain injury.Science advances · 2025Article
- The Role of Cytokine Gene Polymorphisms in Rehabilitation Outcome After Traumatic Brain Injury.Cells · 2025Article
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Abstract
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a common and often devastating illness, with wide-ranging public health implications. In addition to the primary injury, victims of TBI are at risk for secondary neurological injury by numerous mechanisms. Current treatments are limited and do not target the profound immune response associated with injury. This immune response reflects a convergence of peripheral and central nervous system-resident immune cells whose interaction is mediated in part by a disruption in the blood-brain barrier (BBB). The diverse family of cytokines helps to govern this communication and among these, Interleukin (IL)-6 is a notable player in the immune response to acute neurological injury. It is also a well-established pharmacological target in a variety of other disease contexts. In TBI, elevated IL-6 levels are associated with worse outcomes, but the role of IL-6 in response to injury is double-edged. IL-6 promotes neurogenesis and wound healing in animal models of TBI, but it may also contribute to disruptions in the BBB and the progression of cerebral edema. Here, we review IL-6 biology in the context of TBI, with an eye to clarifying its controversial role and understanding its potential as a target for modulating the immune response in this disease.
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