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ReviewJournal of Parkinson's disease2024

Clinical Trial Highlights: Anti-Inflammatory and Immunomodulatory Agents.

Bina Patel, Julia C Greenland, Caroline H Williams-Gray

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Review in Journal of Parkinson's disease, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
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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

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

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Bina PatelJohn van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0PY, UK.
Julia C GreenlandJohn van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0PY, UK.
Caroline H Williams-GrayJohn van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0PY, UK.

Funding

Medical Research Council
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inflammation and immune dysregulation have been linked to the pathogenesis and progression of Parkinson's disease (PD), and represent an attractive target for therapeutic intervention, given the potential for repurposing of existing anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory agents. Despite the fact that initial studies of drugs with secondary anti-inflammatory effects did not yield positive results, agents specifically targeting immune and inflammatory pathways may hold more promise. This article will briefly review the evidence base for targeting the immune system and neuroinflammation in PD, and discuss in detail the recently completed and currently active trials of primary anti-inflammatory/immunomodulatory drugs in PD.

Indexed as

Anti-Inflammatory AgentsImmunomodulating AgentsParkinson DiseaseClinical Trials as TopicHumansInflammationNeuroinflammatory DiseasesAnti-Inflammatory AgentsImmunomodulating AgentsClinical trialsimmune systemimmunosuppressantsinflammasomeinflammationParkinson’s disease

Identifiers

PMID39331111
PMCPMC11492043

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