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ReviewCurrent opinion in immunology2025

The choroid plexus: a command center for brain-body communication during inflammation.

Huixin Xu, Christine Hehnly, Maria K Lehtinen

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Review in Current opinion in immunology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

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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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Choroid plexus inflammation in bipolar disorder.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Huixin XuDepartment of Pathology, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Christine HehnlyDepartment of Pathology, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Maria K LehtinenDepartment of Pathology, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: maria.lehtinen@childrens.harvard.edu.

Funding

Genetic Analysis and Manipulation Core (GAEC)P50HD105351 · NICHD · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI Hisashi Umemori · 2021 to 2026
$9.4M
Supplement request for Training GrantT32NS007473 · NINDS · CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL BOSTON · PI Elizabeth C. Engle, Thomas L. Schwarz · 1999 to 2026
$6.9M
Control of neural stem cells by the nascent cerebrospinal fluidR01NS088566 · NINDS · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI LEHTINEN, MARIA · 2014 to 2024
$5.5M
Targeting the Choroid Plexus-Cerebrospinal Fluid System to Treat Post-Hemorrhagic HydrocephalusR01NS129823 · NINDS · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI MARIA LEHTINEN · 2023 to 2026
$2.6M
Leveraging Choroid Plexus M-CSF Signaling to Prevent Inflammatory-Driven HydrocephalusF32NS136267 · NINDS · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI HEHNLY, CHRISTINE ANNA · 2024 to 2025
$158k
NICHD NIH HHS P50 HD105351NINDS NIH HHS F32 NS136267NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS088566NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS129823NINDS NIH HHS T32 NS007473
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During brain inflammation, rigorous regulation of brain-body communication is required for sufficient, but not excessive, immune activation. As a crucial neuroimmune interface, the choroid plexus (ChP) epithelium serves as both a physical barrier between blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and a gateway allowing peripheral immune cell entry into the central nervous system (CNS). Recent years have witnessed increasing investigations of ChP events during brain inflammation. Here, we contextualize new findings with established ChP core functions, including CSF secretion and blood-CSF barrier regulation. We reason that the ChP is an organ where immune and nonimmune cells collaborate to defend the CNS. We discuss the pertinent mechanisms and the implications for neurologic disease etiology and treatment. Finally, we discuss outstanding questions for this rapidly expanding field and suggest key technologies and experimental steps to elucidate the full range of ChP functions during neuroinflammatory conditions, such as infection, injury, and aging.

Indexed as

BrainChoroid PlexusInflammationNeuroinflammatory DiseasesAnimalsBlood-Brain BarrierHumansNeuroimmunomodulation

Identifiers

PMID40020255
PMCPMC11919389

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