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ReviewTrends in neurosciences2024

Emerging roles of antimicrobial peptides in innate immunity, neuronal function, and neurodegeneration.

Soojin Lee, Neal Silverman, Fen-Biao Gao

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Review in Trends in neurosciences, 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

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Soojin LeeFrontotemporal Dementia Research Center, RNA Therapeutics Institute, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA.
Neal SilvermanDivision of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA. Electronic address: neal.silverman@umassmed.edu.
Fen-Biao GaoFrontotemporal Dementia Research Center, RNA Therapeutics Institute, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA. Electronic address: fen-biao.gao@umassmed.edu.

Funding

From Drosophila Immunity to Anti-InflammatoriesR01AI060025 · NIAID · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI Neal Silverman · 2004 to 2026
$9.4M
Investigating Pathogenic Mechanisms of Frontotemporal Dementia Caused by Mutations in CHMP2B and TBK1R37NS057553 · NINDS · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI GAO, FEN-BIAO · 2018 to 2024
$4.3M
Understanding Frontotemporal Dementia Using Drosophila and iPSC ModelsR01NS101986 · NINDS · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI Fen-Biao Gao · 2017 to 2026
$3.6M
Mechanistic Investigation of Innate Immunity in a Drosophila Model of Frontotemporal DementiaR21AG085108 · NIA · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI GAO, FEN-BIAO, SILVERMAN, NEAL · 2024 to 2024
$461k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI060025NIA NIH HHS R21 AG085108NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS101986NINDS NIH HHS R37 NS057553
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), a collection of small proteins with important roles in classical innate immunity, have been extensively studied in multiple organisms, particularly in Drosophila melanogaster. Advances in CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing have allowed individual AMP functions to be dissected, revealing specific and selective roles in host defense. Recent findings have also revealed many unexpected contributions of endogenous AMPs to neuronal functions and neurodegenerative diseases, and have shed light on the intersections between innate immunity and neurobiology. We explore the intricate relationships between AMPs and sleep regulation, memory formation, as well as traumatic brain injury and several neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and Parkinson's disease (PD). Understanding the diverse functions of AMPs opens new avenues for neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative disease research and potential therapeutic development.

Indexed as

Antimicrobial PeptidesImmunity, InnateNeurodegenerative DiseasesNeuronsAnimalsHumansAntimicrobial PeptidesdementiaDrosophilamemoryneuroinflammationsleeptraumatic brain injury

Identifiers

PMID39389804
PMCPMC11563872

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