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ReviewNeurology international2024

Impact of Mast Cell Activation on Neurodegeneration: A Potential Role for Gut-Brain Axis and

Marina Boziki, Paschalis Theotokis, Evangelia Kesidou, Maria Nella, Christos Bakirtzis, Eleni Karafoulidou, Maria Tzitiridou-Chatzopoulou, Michael Doulberis, Evangelos Kazakos, Georgia Deretzi and 2 more

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Review in Neurology international, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Stromal Cell-Mast Cell Communication Orchestrates Anti-Viral Immunity in the Meninges.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  4. The Potential Role ofMicroorganisms · 2025
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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

12 authors.

Marina BozikiLaboratory of Experimental Neurology and Neuroimmunology, the Multiple Sclerosis Center, 2nd Department of Neurology, AHEPA University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54636 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-6601-5163
Paschalis TheotokisLaboratory of Experimental Neurology and Neuroimmunology, the Multiple Sclerosis Center, 2nd Department of Neurology, AHEPA University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54636 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-8607-6695
Evangelia KesidouLaboratory of Experimental Neurology and Neuroimmunology, the Multiple Sclerosis Center, 2nd Department of Neurology, AHEPA University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54636 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-7234-2462
Maria NellaLaboratory of Experimental Neurology and Neuroimmunology, the Multiple Sclerosis Center, 2nd Department of Neurology, AHEPA University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54636 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Christos BakirtzisLaboratory of Experimental Neurology and Neuroimmunology, the Multiple Sclerosis Center, 2nd Department of Neurology, AHEPA University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54636 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-4737-3707
Eleni KarafoulidouLaboratory of Experimental Neurology and Neuroimmunology, the Multiple Sclerosis Center, 2nd Department of Neurology, AHEPA University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54636 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Maria Tzitiridou-ChatzopoulouSecond Medical Clinic, School of Medicine, Ippokration Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54642 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-6051-0860
Michael DoulberisSecond Medical Clinic, School of Medicine, Ippokration Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54642 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-0396-5081
Evangelos KazakosSecond Medical Clinic, School of Medicine, Ippokration Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54642 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-3045-720X
Georgia DeretziSecond Medical Clinic, School of Medicine, Ippokration Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54642 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Nikolaos GrigoriadisLaboratory of Experimental Neurology and Neuroimmunology, the Multiple Sclerosis Center, 2nd Department of Neurology, AHEPA University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54636 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-4278-3301
Jannis KountourasSecond Medical Clinic, School of Medicine, Ippokration Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54642 Thessaloniki, Greece.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe innate immune response aims to prevent pathogens from entering the organism and/or to facilitate pathogen clearance. Innate immune cells, such as macrophages, mast cells (MCs), natural killer cells and neutrophils, bear pattern recognition receptors and are thus able to recognize common molecular patterns, such as pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs), and damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs), the later occurring in the context of neuroinflammation. An inflammatory component in the pathology of otherwise "primary cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative" disease has recently been recognized and targeted as a means of therapeutic intervention. Activated MCs are multifunctional effector cells generated from hematopoietic stem cells that, together with dendritic cells, represent first-line immune defense mechanisms against pathogens and/or tissue destruction.

methodsThis review aims to summarize evidence of MC implication in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases, namely, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Huntington's disease, and multiple sclerosis.

resultsIn view of recent evidence that the gut-brain axis may be implicated in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases and the characterization of the neuroinflammatory component in the pathology of these diseases, this review also focuses on MCs as potential mediators in the gut-brain axis bi-directional communication and the possible role of

conclusionAs MCs and

Indexed as

Alzheimer’s diseaseamyotrophic lateral sclerosisgut–brain axisHelicobacter pylorimast cellsmultiple sclerosisneurodegenerationneuroinflammationParkinson’s disease

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PMCPMC11677782

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