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Journal of Neuroinflammation

Ausgabe 1/2012

Inhalt (280 Artikel)

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Innate Immunity in multiple sclerosis white matter lesions: expression of natural cytotoxicity triggering receptor 1 (NCR1)

Pascal F Durrenberger, Anna Ettorre, Fatemah Kamel, Louise V Webb, Malcolm Sim, Richard S Nicholas, Omar Malik, Richard Reynolds, Rosemary J Boyton, Daniel M Altmann

Open Access Review

Eosinophils in glioblastoma biology

Colleen S Curran, Paul J Bertics

Open Access Research

Systemic administration of urocortin after intracerebral hemorrhage reduces neurological deficits and neuroinflammation in rats

Hock-Kean Liew, Cheng-Yoong Pang, Chih-Wei Hsu, Mei-Jen Wang, Ting-Yi Li, Hsiao-Fen Peng, Jon-Son Kuo, Jia-Yi Wang

Open Access Research

Constitutive activity of NF-kappa B in myeloid cells drives pathogenicity of monocytes and macrophages during autoimmune neuroinflammation

Gisa Ellrichmann, Jan Thöne, De-Hyung Lee, Rudolph A Rupec, Ralf Gold, Ralf A Linker

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Activation of TRPV1 by capsaicin induces functional Kinin B1 receptor in rat spinal cord microglia

Sébastien Talbot, Jenny Pena Dias, Karim Lahjouji, Maurício Reis Bogo, Maria Martha Campos, Pierrette Gaudreau, Réjean Couture

Open Access Short report

Pharmacological inhibition of Akt and downstream pathways modulates the expression of COX-2 and mPGES-1 in activated microglia

Antonio CP de Oliveira, Eduardo Candelario-Jalil, Julia Langbein, Lena Wendeburg, Harsharan S Bhatia, Johannes CM Schlachetzki, Knut Biber, Bernd L Fiebich

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Psychological stress in adolescent and adult mice increases neuroinflammation and attenuates the response to LPS challenge

Christopher J Barnum, Thaddeus WW Pace, Fang Hu, Gretchen N Neigh, Malú G Tansey

Open Access Research

Contrasting disease patterns in seropositive and seronegative neuromyelitis optica: A multicentre study of 175 patients

Sven Jarius, Klemens Ruprecht, Brigitte Wildemann, Tania Kuempfel, Marius Ringelstein, Christian Geis, Ingo Kleiter, Christoph Kleinschnitz, Achim Berthele, Johannes Brettschneider, Kerstin Hellwig, Bernhard Hemmer, Ralf A Linker, Florian Lauda, Christoph A Mayer, Hayrettin Tumani, Arthur Melms, Corinna Trebst, Martin Stangel, Martin Marziniak, Frank Hoffmann, Sven Schippling, Jürgen H Faiss, Oliver Neuhaus, Barbara Ettrich, Christian Zentner, Kersten Guthke, Ulrich Hofstadt-van Oy, Reinhard Reuss, Hannah Pellkofer, Ulf Ziemann, Peter Kern, Klaus P Wandinger, Florian Then Bergh, Tobias Boettcher, Stefan Langel, Martin Liebetrau, Paulus S Rommer, Sabine Niehaus, Christoph Münch, Alexander Winkelmann, Uwe K Zettl U, Imke Metz, Christian Veauthier, Jörn P Sieb, Christian Wilke, Hans P Hartung, Orhan Aktas, Friedemann Paul

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Can the benefits of cannabinoid receptor stimulation on neuroinflammation, neurogenesis and memory during normal aging be useful in AD prevention?

Yannick Marchalant, Kevin Baranger, Gary L Wenk, Michel Khrestchatisky, Santiago Rivera

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Endotoxin-induced cytokine and chemokine expression in the HIV-1 transgenic rat

Natasha F Homji, Xin Mao, Erik F Langsdorf, Sulie L Chang

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Prolonged oral cannabinoid administration prevents neuroinflammation, lowers β-amyloid levels and improves cognitive performance in Tg APP 2576 mice

Ana María Martín-Moreno, Begoña Brera, Carlos Spuch, Eva Carro, Luis García-García, Mercedes Delgado, Miguel A Pozo, Nadia G Innamorato, Antonio Cuadrado, María L de Ceballos

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Neutrophil depletion reduces edema formation and tissue loss following traumatic brain injury in mice

Ellinor Kenne, Anna Erlandsson, Lennart Lindbom, Lars Hillered, Fredrik Clausen

Open Access Erratum

Erratum to: Increased neuroinflammatory and arachidonic acid cascade markers, and reduced synaptic proteins, in brain of HIV-1 transgenic rats

Jagadeesh Sridhara Rao, Hyung-Wook Kim, Matthew Kellom, Dede Greenstein, Mei Chen, Andrew David Kraft, Gaylia Jean Harry, Stanley Isaac Rapoport, Mireille Basselin

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Selective targeting of microglia by quantum dots

S Sakura Minami, Binggui Sun, Ketul Popat, Tiina Kauppinen, Mike Pleiss, Yungui Zhou, Michael E Ward, Paul Floreancig, Lennart Mucke, Tejal Desai, Li Gan

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Neuroprotective function for ramified microglia in hippocampal excitotoxicity

Jonathan Vinet, Hilmar RJ van Weering, Annette Heinrich, Roland E Kälin, Anja Wegner, Nieske Brouwer, Frank L Heppner, Nico van Rooijen, Hendrikus WGM Boddeke, Knut Biber

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Electroacupuncture pretreatment attenuates cerebral ischemic injury through α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor-mediated inhibition of high-mobility group box 1 release in rats

Qiang Wang, Feng Wang, Xin Li, Qianzi Yang, Xuying Li, Ning Xu, Yi Huang, Qiaomei Zhang, Xingchun Gou, Shaoyang Chen, Lize Xiong

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Japanese encephalitis virus induces matrix metalloproteinase-9 expression via a ROS/c-Src/PDGFR/PI3K/Akt/MAPKs-dependent AP-1 pathway in rat brain astrocytes

Chuen-Mao Yang, Chih-Chung Lin, I-Ta Lee, Yi-Hsin Lin, Caleb M Yang, Wei-June Chen, Mei-Jie Jou, Li-Der Hsiao

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TNF-α protein synthesis inhibitor restores neuronal function and reverses cognitive deficits induced by chronic neuroinflammation

Karim Belarbi, Timothy Jopson, David Tweedie, Carla Arellano, Weiming Luo, Nigel H Greig, Susanna Rosi

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Interaction of HmC1q with leech microglial cells: involvement of C1qBP-related molecule in the induction of cell chemotaxis

Muriel Tahtouh, Annelise Garçon-Bocquet, Françoise Croq, Jacopo Vizioli, Pierre-Eric Sautière, Christelle Van Camp, Michel Salzet, Patricia Nagnan-le Meillour, Joël Pestel, Christophe Lefebvre

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Up-regulation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in primary afferent pathway regulates colon-to-bladder cross-sensitization in rat

Chun-Mei Xia, Melisa A Gulick, Sharon J Yu, John R Grider, Karnam S Murthy, John F Kuemmerle, Hamid I Akbarali, Li-Ya Qiao

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Microglial activation induced by brain trauma is suppressed by post-injury treatment with a PARP inhibitor

Joana C d’Avila, Tina I Lam, Deborah Bingham, Jian Shi, Seok Joon Won, Tiina M Kauppinen, Stephen Massa, Jialing Liu, Raymond A Swanson

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CCL2 upregulation triggers hypoxic preconditioning-induced protection from stroke

Ann M Stowe, Bradley K Wacker, Petra D Cravens, Jennifer L Perfater, Min K Li, Ruilong Hu, Angela B Freie, Olaf Stüve, Jeffrey M Gidday

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Naloxone inhibits immune cell function by suppressing superoxide production through a direct interaction with gp91 phox subunit of NADPH oxidase

Qingshan Wang, Hui Zhou, Huiming Gao, Shih-Heng Chen, Chun-Hsien Chu, Belinda Wilson, Jau-Shyong Hong

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Functional analysis of Pro-inflammatory properties within the cerebrospinal fluid after subarachnoid hemorrhage in vivo and in vitro

Ulf C Schneider, Jennifer Schiffler, Nahid Hakiy, Peter Horn, Peter Vajkoczy

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Concurrent multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: where inflammation and neurodegeneration meet?

Grace Li, Margaret M Esiri, Olaf Ansorge, Gabriele C DeLuca

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CD4+ CD25+ FoxP3+ regulatory T cells suppress cytotoxicity of CD8+ effector T cells: implications for their capacity to limit inflammatory central nervous system damage at the parenchymal level

Kerstin Göbel, Stefan Bittner, Nico Melzer, Susann Pankratz, Angela Dreykluft, Michael K Schuhmann, Sven G Meuth, Heinz Wiendl

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Delayed mGluR5 activation limits neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration after traumatic brain injury

Kimberly R Byrnes, David J Loane, Bogdan A Stoica, Jiangyang Zhang, Alan I Faden

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Blockade of interleukin-6 signaling inhibits the classic pathway and promotes an alternative pathway of macrophage activation after spinal cord injury in mice

Alexander Rodriguez Guerrero, Kenzo Uchida, Hideaki Nakajima, Shuji Watanabe, Masaya Nakamura, William EB Johnson, Hisatoshi Baba

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Sequence variants of interleukin 6 (IL-6) are significantly associated with a decreased risk of late-onset Alzheimer's disease

Shih-Yuan Chen, Ta-Fu Chen, Liang-Chuan Lai, Jen-Hau Chen, Yu Sun, Li-Li Wen, Ping-Keung Yip, Yi-Min Chu, Yen-Ching Chen

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Palmitoylethanolamide exerts neuroprotective effects in mixed neuroglial cultures and organotypic hippocampal slices via peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-α

Caterina Scuderi, Marta Valenza, Claudia Stecca, Giuseppe Esposito, Maria Rosaria Carratù, Luca Steardo

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Acetate supplementation modulates brain histone acetylation and decreases interleukin-1β expression in a rat model of neuroinflammation

Mahmoud L Soliman, Mark D Smith, Heidi M Houdek, Thad A Rosenberger

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Inhibitory effect of 4-O-methylhonokiol on lipopolysaccharide-induced neuroinflammation, amyloidogenesis and memory impairment via inhibition of nuclear factor-kappaB in vitro and in vivo models

Young-Jung Lee, Dong-Young Choi, Im Seop Choi, Ki Ho Kim, Young Hee Kim, Hwan Mook Kim, Kiho Lee, Won Gil Cho, Jea Kyung Jung, Sang Bae Han, Jin-Yi Han, Sang-Yoon Nam, Young Won Yun, Jae Hwang Jeong, Ki-Wan Oh, Jin Tae Hong

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Regulator of calcineurin 1 (Rcan1) has a protective role in brain ischemia/reperfusion injury

Mónica Sobrado, Belén G Ramirez, Fernando Neria, Ignacio Lizasoain, Maria Lourdes Arbones, Takashi Minami, Juan Miguel Redondo, María Ángeles Moro, Eva Cano

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Therapeutic targeting of Krüppel-like factor 4 abrogates microglial activation

Deepak Kumar Kaushik, Rupanjan Mukhopadhyay, Kanhaiya Lal Kumawat, Malvika Gupta, Anirban Basu

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Morphological features of microglial cells in the hippocampal dentate gyrus of Gunn rat: a possible schizophrenia animal model

Kristian Liaury, Tsuyoshi Miyaoka, Toshiko Tsumori, Motohide Furuya, Rei Wake, Masa Ieda, Keiko Tsuchie, Michiyo Taki, Kotomi Ishihara, Andi Jayalangkara Tanra, Jun Horiguchi

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NOV/CCN3 attenuates inflammatory pain through regulation of matrix metalloproteinases-2 and -9

Lara Kular, Cyril Rivat, Brigitte Lelongt, Claire Calmel, Maryvonne Laurent, Michel Pohl, Patrick Kitabgi, Stéphane Melik-Parsadaniantz, Cécile Martinerie

Open Access Review

Who fans the flames of Alzheimer's disease brains? Misfolded tau on the crossroad of neurodegenerative and inflammatory pathways

Norbert Zilka, Zuzana Kazmerova, Santosh Jadhav, Peter Neradil, Aladar Madari, Dominika Obetkova, Ondrej Bugos, Michal Novak

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The endogenous proteoglycan-degrading enzyme ADAMTS-4 promotes functional recovery after spinal cord injury

Ryoji Tauchi, Shiro Imagama, Takamitsu Natori, Tomohiro Ohgomori, Akio Muramoto, Ryuichi Shinjo, Yukihiro Matsuyama, Naoki Ishiguro, Kenji Kadomatsu

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Leukotrienes inhibit early stages of HIV-1 infection in monocyte-derived microglia-like cells

Jonathan Bertin, Corinne Barat, Dave Bélanger, Michel J Tremblay

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Heme activates TLR4-mediated inflammatory injury via MyD88/TRIF signaling pathway in intracerebral hemorrhage

Sen Lin, Qing Yin, Qi Zhong, Feng-Lin Lv, Yu Zhou, Jing-Qi Li, Jing-Zhou Wang, Bing-yin Su, Qing-Wu Yang

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Targeting of prion-infected lymphoid cells to the central nervous system accelerates prion infection

Yael Friedman-Levi, Romana Hoftberger, Herbert Budka, Tehila Mayer-Sonnenfeld, Oded Abramsky, Haim Ovadia, Ruth Gabizon

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DQB1*0602 rather than DRB1*1501 confers susceptibility to multiple sclerosis-like disease induced by proteolipid protein (PLP)

Nathali Kaushansky, Daniel M Altmann, Chella S David, Hans Lassmann, Avraham Ben-Nun

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A hematopoietic contribution to microhemorrhage formation during antiviral CD8 T cell-initiated blood-brain barrier disruption

Holly L Johnson, Yi Chen, Georgette L Suidan, Jeremiah R McDole, Anne K Lohrey, Lisa M Hanson, Fang Jin, Istvan Pirko, Aaron J Johnson

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Minocycline corrects early, pre-plaque neuroinflammation and inhibits BACE-1 in a transgenic model of Alzheimer's disease-like amyloid pathology

Maria Teresa Ferretti, Simon Allard, Vanessa Partridge, Adriana Ducatenzeiler, A Claudio Cuello

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Interleukin-1 participates in the classical and alternative activation of microglia/macrophages after spinal cord injury

Atsushi Sato, Hirokazu Ohtaki, Tomomi Tsumuraya, Dandan Song, Kenji Ohara, Masahide Asano, Yoichiro Iwakura, Takashi Atsumi, Seiji Shioda

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The NAMPT inhibitor FK866 reverts the damage in spinal cord injury

Emanuela Esposito, Daniela Impellizzeri, Emanuela Mazzon, Gohar Fakhfouri, Reza Rahimian, Cristina Travelli, Gian Cesare Tron, Armando A Genazzani, Salvatore Cuzzocrea

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Microglial TIR-domain-containing adapter-inducing interferon-β (TRIF) deficiency promotes retinal ganglion cell survival and axon regeneration via nuclear factor-κB

Sen Lin, Yajie Liang, Jiqiang Zhang, Chen Bian, Hongli Zhou, Qiang Guo, Ying Xiong, Shurong Li, Bingyin Su

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High serum levels of transforming growth factor β1 are associated with increased cortical thickness in cingulate and right frontal areas in healthy subjects

Fabrizio Piras, Francesca Salani, Paola Bossù, Carlo Caltagirone, Gianfranco Spalletta

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Dipeptidyl peptidase IV, aminopeptidase N and DPIV/APN-like proteases in cerebral ischemia

Peter Röhnert, Werner Schmidt, Patrick Emmerlich, Alexander Goihl, Sabine Wrenger, Ute Bank, Karsten Nordhoff, Michael Täger, Siegfried Ansorge, Dirk Reinhold, Frank Striggow

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Anti-inflammatory recombinant TSG-6 stabilizes the progression of focal retinal degeneration in a murine model

Jingsheng Tuo, Xiaoguang Cao, Defen Shen, Yujuan Wang, Jun Zhang, Joo Youn Oh, Darwin J Prockop, Chi-Chao Chan

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Inflammatory monocytes damage the hippocampus during acute picornavirus infection of the brain

Charles L Howe, Reghann G LaFrance-Corey, Rhianna S Sundsbak, Stephanie J LaFrance

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The PPAR-gamma agonist pioglitazone protects cortical neurons from inflammatory mediators via improvement in peroxisomal function

Elizabeth Gray, Mark Ginty, Kevin Kemp, Neil Scolding, Alastair Wilkins

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Anti-inflammatory effect of simvastatin in an experimental model of spinal cord trauma: involvement of PPAR-α

Emanuela Esposito, Barbara Rinaldi, Emanuela Mazzon, Maria Donniacuo, Daniela Impellizzeri, Irene Paterniti, Annalisa Capuano, Placido Bramanti, Salvatore Cuzzocrea

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Inducible nitric oxide synthase is involved in the modulation of depressive behaviors induced by unpredictable chronic mild stress

Yun-Li Peng, Yu-Ning Liu, Lei Liu, Xia Wang, Chun-Lei Jiang, Yun-Xia Wang

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Prevention of methamphetamine-induced microglial cell death by TNF-α and IL-6 through activation of the JAK-STAT pathway

Vanessa Coelho-Santos, Joana Gonçalves, Carlos Fontes-Ribeiro, Ana Paula Silva

Open Access Research

NADPH oxidase-mediated redox signal contributes to lipoteichoic acid-induced MMP-9 upregulation in brain astrocytes

Hsi-Lung Hsieh, Chih-Chung Lin, Ruey-Horng Shih, Li-Der Hsiao, Chuen-Mao Yang

Open Access Research

Interleukin-6 gene (IL-6): a possible role in brain morphology in the healthy adult brain

Bernhard T Baune, Carsten Konrad, Dominik Grotegerd, Thomas Suslow, Eva Birosova, Patricia Ohrmann, Jochen Bauer, Volker Arolt, Walter Heindel, Katharina Domschke, Sonja Schöning, Astrid V Rauch, Christina Uhlmann, Harald Kugel, Udo Dannlowski

Open Access Review

Parkinson’s disease and immune system: is the culprit LRRKing in the periphery?

Elisa Greggio, Laura Civiero, Marco Bisaglia, Luigi Bubacco

Open Access Research

Chemokine CCL2 and its receptor CCR2 in the medullary dorsal horn are involved in trigeminal neuropathic pain

Zhi-Jun Zhang, Yu-Lin Dong, Ying Lu, Su Cao, Zhi-Qi Zhao, Yong-Jing Gao

Open Access Research

The NALP3 inflammasome is involved in neurotoxic prion peptide-induced microglial activation

Fushan Shi, Lifeng Yang, Mohammed Kouadir, Yang Yang, Jihong Wang, Xiangmei Zhou, Xiaomin Yin, Deming Zhao

Open Access Research

Variability in detection and quantification of interferon β-1b–induced neutralizing antibodies

Hans-Peter Hartung, Bernd Kieseier, Douglas S Goodin, Barry GW Arnason, Giancarlo Comi, Stuart Cook, Massimo Filippi, Douglas R Jeffery, Ludwig Kappos, Timon Bogumil, Brigitte Stemper, Rupert Sandbrink, Yukiko Nakada, Haruhiko Nakajima, Susanne Schwenke, Stephan Lehr, Jürgen Heubach, Christoph Pohl, Joachim Reischl

Open Access Research

Serum response factor modulates neuron survival during peripheral axon injury

Sina Stern, Daniela Sinske, Bernd Knöll

Open Access Research

Elevated type I interferon-like activity in a subset of multiple sclerosis patients: molecular basis and clinical relevance

Alexander Hundeshagen, Michael Hecker, Brigitte Katrin Paap, Charlotte Angerstein, Ole Kandulski, Christian Fatum, Christiane Hartmann, Dirk Koczan, Hans-Juergen Thiesen, Uwe Klaus Zettl

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Tumor necrosis factor-α synthesis inhibitor 3,6′-dithiothalidomide attenuates markers of inflammation, Alzheimer pathology and behavioral deficits in animal models of neuroinflammation and Alzheimer’s disease

David Tweedie, Ryan A Ferguson, Kelly Fishman, Kathryn A Frankola, Henriette Van Praag, Harold W Holloway, Weiming Luo, Yazhou Li, Luca Caracciolo, Isabella Russo, Sergio Barlati, Balmiki Ray, Debomoy K Lahiri, Francesca Bosetti, Nigel H Greig, Susanna Rosi

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CAR/FoxP3-engineered T regulatory cells target the CNS and suppress EAE upon intranasal delivery

Moa Fransson, Elena Piras, Joachim Burman, Berith Nilsson, Magnus Essand, BinFeng Lu, Robert A Harris, Peetra U Magnusson, Eva Brittebo, Angelica SI Loskog

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Early intervention with a small molecule inhibitor for tumor nefosis factor-α prevents cognitive deficits in a triple transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease

S Prasad Gabbita, Minu K Srivastava, Pirooz Eslami, Ming F Johnson, Naomi K Kobritz, David Tweedie, Nigel H Greig, Frank P Zemlan, Sherven P Sharma, Marni E Harris-White

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(−)-Epigallocatechin gallate inhibits endotoxin-induced expression of inflammatory cytokines in human cerebral microvascular endothelial cells

Jieliang Li, Li Ye, Xu Wang, Jinping Liu, Yizhong Wang, Yu Zhou, Wenzhe Ho

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Prenatal stress causes alterations in the morphology of microglia and the inflammatory response of the hippocampus of adult female mice

Yolanda Diz-Chaves, Olga Pernía, Paloma Carrero, Luis M Garcia-Segura

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The fatty acid amide hydrolase inhibitor URB597 exerts anti-inflammatory effects in hippocampus of aged rats and restores an age-related deficit in long-term potentiation

Niamh Murphy, Thelma R Cowley, Christoph W Blau, Colin N Dempsey, Janis Noonan, Aoife Gowran, Riffat Tanveer, Weredeselam M Olango, David P Finn, Veronica A Campbell, Marina A Lynch

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Decreased MHC I expression in IFN gamma mutant mice alters synaptic elimination in the spinal cord after peripheral injury

Sheila CS Victório, Luciana P Cartarozzi, Rafaela CR Hell, Alexandre LR Oliveira

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Endogenous dynorphin protects against neurotoxin-elicited nigrostriatal dopaminergic neuron damage and motor deficits in mice

Qingshan Wang, Eun-Joo Shin, Xuan-Khanh Thi Nguyen, Quan Li, Jae-Hyung Bach, Guoying Bing, Won-Ki Kim, Hyoung-Chun Kim, Jau-Shyong Hong

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Regulatory effects of the JAK3/STAT1 pathway on the release of secreted phospholipase A2-IIA in microvascular endothelial cells of the injured brain

Guansong Wang, Pin Qian, Zhi Xu, Jiqiang Zhang, Yaoli Wang, Saiyu Cheng, Wenqin Cai, Guisheng Qian, Changzheng Wang, Mark A DeCoster

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Histamine modulates microglia function

Raquel Ferreira, Tiago Santos, Joana Gonçalves, Graça Baltazar, Lino Ferreira, Fabienne Agasse, Liliana Bernardino

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IOP induces upregulation of GFAP and MHC-II and microglia reactivity in mice retina contralateral to experimental glaucoma

Beatriz I Gallego, Juan J Salazar, Rosa de Hoz, Blanca Rojas, Ana I Ramírez, Manuel Salinas-Navarro, Arturo Ortín-Martínez, Francisco J Valiente-Soriano, Marcelino Avilés-Trigueros, Maria P Villegas-Perez, Manuel Vidal-Sanz, Alberto Triviño, Jose M Ramírez

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Up-regulation of microglial cathepsin C expression and activity in lipopolysaccharide-induced neuroinflammation

Kai Fan, Xuefei Wu, Bin Fan, Ning Li, Yongzhong Lin, Yiwen Yao, Jianmei Ma

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Telmisartan directly ameliorates the neuronal inflammatory response to IL-1β partly through the JNK/c-Jun and NADPH oxidase pathways

Tao Pang, Juan Wang, Julius Benicky, Enrique Sánchez-Lemus, Juan M Saavedra

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Spontaneously hypertensive rats display reduced microglial activation in response to ischemic stroke and lipopolysaccharide

Deborah De Geyter, Wendy Stoop, Tine Zgavc, Sophie Sarre, Yvette Michotte, Jacques De Keyser, Ron Kooijman

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Evaluating the role of IL-11, a novel cytokine in the IL-6 family, in a mouse model of spinal cord injury

Newton Cho, Dung H Nguyen, Kajana Satkunendrarajah, Donald R Branch, Michael G Fehlings

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c-Src-dependent EGF receptor transactivation contributes to ET-1-induced COX-2 expression in brain microvascular endothelial cells

Hsi-Lung Hsieh, Chih-Chung Lin, Hui-Ju Chan, Caleb M Yang, Chuen-Mao Yang

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Elevated serum levels of interleukin-17A in children with autism

Laila Yousef AL-Ayadhi, Gehan Ahmed Mostafa

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Delayed expression of cell cycle proteins contributes to astroglial scar formation and chronic inflammation after rat spinal cord contusion

Junfang Wu, Ahdeah Pajoohesh-Ganji, Bogdan A Stoica, Michael Dinizo, Kelsey Guanciale, Alan I Faden

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C/EBPβ regulates multiple IL-1β-induced human astrocyte inflammatory genes

Jerel Fields, Anuja Ghorpade

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Temporal changes in innate immune signals in a rat model of alcohol withdrawal in emotional and cardiorespiratory homeostatic nuclei

Kate Freeman, Anthony Brureau, Rajanikanth Vadigepalli, Mary M Staehle, Melanie M Brureau, Gregory E Gonye, Jan B Hoek, D Craig Hooper, James S Schwaber

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Cytokines and olfactory bulb microglia in response to bacterial challenge in the compromised primary olfactory pathway

Rosalind P Herbert, Julie Harris, Kim Pei Chong, Jamie Chapman, Adrian K West, Meng Inn Chuah

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Disrupted sleep without sleep curtailment induces sleepiness and cognitive dysfunction via the tumor necrosis factor-α pathway

Vijay Ramesh, Deepti Nair, Shelley X L Zhang, Fahed Hakim, Navita Kaushal, Foaz Kayali, Yang Wang, Richard C Li, Alba Carreras, David Gozal

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Clusters of activated microglia in normal-appearing white matter show signs of innate immune activation

Jack van Horssen, Shailender Singh, Susanne van der Pol, Markus Kipp, Jamie L Lim, Laura Peferoen, Wouter Gerritsen, Evert-Jan Kooi, Maarten E Witte, Jeroen JG Geurts, Helga E de Vries, Regina Peferoen-Baert, Peter J van den Elsen, Paul van der Valk, Sandra Amor

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Viral-toxin interactions and Parkinson’s disease: poly(I:C) priming enhanced the neurodegenerative effects of paraquat

Jessica Bobyn, Emily N Mangano, Anusha Gandhi, Eric Nelson, Kerry Moloney, Melanie Clarke, Shawn Hayley

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Infection and upregulation of proinflammatory cytokines in human brain vascular pericytes by human cytomegalovirus

Donald J Alcendor, Ashley M Charest, Wen Qin Zhu, Hollie E Vigil, Susan M Knobel

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Prokineticin 2 potentiates acid-sensing ion channel activity in rat dorsal root ganglion neurons

Chun-Yu Qiu, Yu-Qiang Liu, Fang Qiu, Jiliang Wu, Qun-Yong Zhou, Wang-Ping Hu

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Post-ischemic estradiol treatment reduced glial response and triggers distinct cortical and hippocampal signaling in a rat model of cerebral ischemia

Maria Jose Pérez-Álvarez, Maria del Carmen Maza, Marta Anton, Lara Ordoñez, Francisco Wandosell

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Inhibition of CD200R1 expression by C/EBP beta in reactive microglial cells

Guido Dentesano, Marco Straccia, Aroa Ejarque-Ortiz, Josep M Tusell, Joan Serratosa, Josep Saura, Carme Solà

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Indomethacin protects rats from neuronal damage induced by traumatic brain injury and suppresses hippocampal IL-1β release through the inhibition of Nogo-A expression

Po-Kuan Chao, Kwok-Tung Lu, Ji-Yi Jhu, Yu-Yuan Peter Wo, Tai-Chun Huang, Long-Sun Ro, Yi-Ling Yang

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Neuronal RING finger protein 11 (RNF11) regulates canonical NF-κB signaling

Elaine L Pranski, Nirjari V Dalal, Jeremy H Herskowitz, Adam L Orr, Leah A Roesch, Jason J Fritz, Craig Heilman, James J Lah, Allan I Levey, Ranjita S Betarbet

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α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor-mediated neuroprotection against dopaminergic neuron loss in an MPTP mouse model via inhibition of astrocyte activation

Yuan Liu, Jun Hu, Jie Wu, Chenlei Zhu, Yujian Hui, Yaping Han, Zuhu Huang, Kevin Ellsworth, Weimin Fan

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Effects of human intravenous immunoglobulin on amyloid pathology and neuroinflammation in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease

Lakshman Puli, Yuriy Pomeshchik, Katja Olas, Tarja Malm, Jari Koistinaho, Heikki Tanila

Open Access Erratum

Erratum to: Luteolin triggers global changes in the microglial transcriptome leading to a unique anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective phenotype

Konstantin Dirscherl, Marcus Karlstetter, Stefanie Ebert, Dominik Kraus, Julia Hlawatsch, Yana Walczak, Christoph Moehle, Rudolf Fuchshofer, Thomas Langmann

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Immunodominant fragments of myelin basic protein initiate T cell-dependent pain

Huaqing Liu, Sergey A Shiryaev, Andrei V Chernov, Youngsoon Kim, Igor Shubayev, Albert G Remacle, Svetlana Baranovskaya, Vladislav S Golubkov, Alex Y Strongin, Veronica I Shubayev

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Inhibition of P2X7 receptor ameliorates transient global cerebral ischemia/reperfusion injury via modulating inflammatory responses in the rat hippocampus

Ketan Chu, Bo Yin, Jingye Wang, Guoping Peng, Hui Liang, Ziqi Xu, Yue Du, Marong Fang, Qiang Xia, Benyan Luo

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Immunoadsorption therapy in patients with multiple sclerosis with steroid-refractory optical neuritis

Michael J Koziolek, Desiree Tampe, Matthias Bähr, Hassan Dihazi, Klaus Jung, Dirk Fitzner, Reinhard Klingel, Gerhard A Müller, Bernd Kitze

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CXCL13 is the major determinant for B cell recruitment to the CSF during neuroinflammation

Markus C Kowarik, Sabine Cepok, Johann Sellner, Verena Grummel, Martin S Weber, Thomas Korn, Achim Berthele, Bernhard Hemmer

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MicroRNA-124 as a novel treatment for persistent hyperalgesia

Hanneke LDM Willemen, Xiao-Jiao Huo, Qi-Liang Mao-Ying, Jitske Zijlstra, Cobi J Heijnen, Annemieke Kavelaars

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Association of inflammatory gene polymorphisms with ischemic stroke in a Chinese Han population

Nan Zhao, Xin Liu, Yongqin Wang, Xiaoqiu Liu, Jiana Li, Litian Yu, Liyuan Ma, Shuyu Wang, Hongye Zhang, Lisheng Liu, Jingbo Zhao, Xingyu Wang

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Spatial and temporal correlation in progressive degeneration of neurons and astrocytes in contusion-induced spinal cord injury

Kyoung-Jin Min, Hey-Kyeong Jeong, Beomsue Kim, Dong Hoon Hwang, Hae Young Shin, An Tran Nguyen, Jong-hyeon Kim, Ilo Jou, Byung G Kim, Eun-hye Joe

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IFN-γ protects from lethal IL-17 mediated viral encephalomyelitis independent of neutrophils

Carine Savarin, Stephen A Stohlman, David R Hinton, Richard M Ransohoff, Daniel J Cua, Cornelia C Bergmann

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LPS-induced release of IL-6 from glia modulates production of IL-1β in a JAK2-dependent manner

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Complement activation in the injured central nervous system: another dual-edged sword?

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Transient early neurotrophin release and delayed inflammatory cytokine release by microglia in response to PAR-2 stimulation

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Transforming growth factor β1-induced astrocyte migration is mediated in part by activating 5-lipoxygenase and cysteinyl leukotriene receptor 1

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The neuroprotective effects of milk fat globule-EGF factor 8 against oligomeric amyloid β toxicity

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Plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 regulates microglial motility and phagocytic activity

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Effects of dimethyl fumarate on neuroprotection and immunomodulation

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Complement receptor-3 negatively regulates the phagocytosis of degenerated myelin through tyrosine kinase Syk and cofilin

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Downstream Toll-like receptor signaling mediates adaptor-specific cytokine expression following focal cerebral ischemia

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Acute injury in the peripheral nervous system triggers an alternative macrophage response

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Inhibition of EGFR/MAPK signaling reduces microglial inflammatory response and the associated secondary damage in rats after spinal cord injury

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Extensive innate immune gene activation accompanies brain aging, increasing vulnerability to cognitive decline and neurodegeneration: a microarray study

David H Cribbs, Nicole C Berchtold, Victoria Perreau, Paul D Coleman, Joseph Rogers, Andrea J Tenner, Carl W Cotman

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Peroxisome deficiency but not the defect in ether lipid synthesis causes activation of the innate immune system and axonal loss in the central nervous system

Astrid Bottelbergs, Simon Verheijden, Paul P Van Veldhoven, Wilhelm Just, Rita Devos, Myriam Baes

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Albumin induces upregulation of matrix metalloproteinase-9 in astrocytes via MAPK and reactive oxygen species-dependent pathways

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Liposomal clodronate selectively eliminates microglia from primary astrocyte cultures

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Increase of arginase activity in old apolipoprotein-E deficient mice under Western diet associated with changes in neurovascular unit

Jérôme Badaut, Jean-Christophe Copin, Andrew M Fukuda, Yvan Gasche, Karl Schaller, Rafaela F da Silva

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Methylhonokiol attenuates neuroinflammation: a role for cannabinoid receptors?

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Pre-infection physical exercise decreases mortality and stimulates neurogenesis in bacterial meningitis

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P2X7 signaling promotes microsphere embolism-triggered microglia activation by maintaining elevation of Fas ligand

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IFN-γ-induced increase in the mobility of MHC class II compartments in astrocytes depends on intermediate filaments

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Relationship between plasma high mobility group box-1 protein levels and clinical outcomes of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage

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Etiology of autistic features: the persisting neurotoxic effects of propionic acid

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Sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor 5 mediates the immune quiescence of the human brain endothelial barrier

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Neuronal apoptosis by HIV-1 Vpr: contribution of proinflammatory molecular networks from infected target cells

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Effects of anti-inflammatory vagus nerve stimulation on the cerebral microcirculation in endotoxinemic rats

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Time dependent neuroprotection of mycophenolate mofetil: effects on temporal dynamics in glial proliferation, apoptosis, and scar formation

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Multiplex array proteomics detects increased MMP-8 in CSF after spinal cord injury

Matthew Light, Kenneth H Minor, Peter DeWitt, Kyle H Jasper, Stephen JA Davies

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Long-term impact of systemic bacterial infection on the cerebral vasculature and microglia

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Blockade of adenosine A2A receptors prevents interleukin-1β-induced exacerbation of neuronal toxicity through a p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway

Ana Patrícia Simões, João A Duarte, Fabienne Agasse, Paula Margarida Canas, Angelo R Tomé, Paula Agostinho, Rodrigo A Cunha

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Increased blood-cerebrospinal fluid transfer of albumin in advanced Parkinson’s disease

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A single intraperitoneal injection of endotoxin in rats induces long-lasting modifications in behavior and brain protein levels of TNF-α and IL-18

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Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors γ/mitochondrial uncoupling protein 2 signaling protects against seizure-induced neuronal cell death in the hippocampus following experimental status epilepticus

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Anti-inflammatory/anti-amyloidogenic effects of plasmalogens in lipopolysaccharide-induced neuroinflammation in adult mice

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Preventive immunization of aged and juvenile non-human primates to beta-amyloid

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Heterotrimeric G protein-dependent WNT-5A signaling to ERK1/2 mediates distinct aspects of microglia proinflammatory transformation

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Keratinocyte expression of inflammatory mediators plays a crucial role in substance P-induced acute and chronic pain

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Recurrent/moderate hypoglycemia induces hippocampal dendritic injury, microglial activation, and cognitive impairment in diabetic rats

Seok Joon Won, Byung Hoon Yoo, Tiina M Kauppinen, Bo Young Choi, Jin Hee Kim, Bong Geom Jang, Min Woo Lee, Min Sohn, Jialing Liu, Raymond A Swanson, Sang Won Suh

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The immunology of traumatic brain injury: a prime target for Alzheimer’s disease prevention

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Conditional expression of human β-hexosaminidase in the neurons of Sandhoff disease rescues mice from neurodegeneration but not neuroinflammation

Stephanos Kyrkanides, Sabine M Brouxhon, Ross H Tallents, Jen-nie H Miller, John A Olschowka, M Kerry O’Banion

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CC chemokine ligand 2 upregulates the current density and expression of TRPV1 channels and Nav1.8 sodium channels in dorsal root ganglion neurons

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Toll-like receptor 2 deficiency leads to delayed exacerbation of ischemic injury

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Extracellular adenosine signaling induces CX3CL1 expression in the brain to promote experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

Jeffrey H Mills, Leah M Alabanza, Deeqa A Mahamed, Margaret S Bynoe

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Adenosine A2B receptor-mediated leukemia inhibitory factor release from astrocytes protects cortical neurons against excitotoxicity

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Pro-inflammatory interleukin-18 increases Alzheimer’s disease-associated amyloid-β production in human neuron-like cells

Elina M Sutinen, Tuula Pirttilä, George Anderson, Antero Salminen, Johanna O Ojala

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Hydrogen sulfide attenuates spatial memory impairment and hippocampal neuroinflammation in beta-amyloid rat model of Alzheimer’s disease

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Elevated levels of circulating IL-18BP and perturbed regulation of IL-18 in schizophrenia

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IgG glycan hydrolysis by EndoS inhibits experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

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Activation of kinin B1 receptor evokes hyperthermia through a vagal sensory mechanism in the rat

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Lipopolysaccharide-induced neuroinflammation leads to the accumulation of ubiquitinated proteins and increases susceptibility to neurodegeneration induced by proteasome inhibition in rat hippocampus

Cristina Pintado, María P Gavilán, Elena Gavilán, Luisa García-Cuervo, Antonia Gutiérrez, Javier Vitorica, Angélica Castaño, Rosa M Ríos, Diego Ruano

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IL-1 signal affects both protection and pathogenesis of virus-induced chronic CNS demyelinating disease

Byung S Kim, Young-Hee Jin, Liping Meng, Wanqiu Hou, Hyun Seok Kang, Hey Suk Park, Chang-Sung Koh

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Time-dependent effects of hypothermia on microglial activation and migration

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The enteric bacterial metabolite propionic acid alters brain and plasma phospholipid molecular species: further development of a rodent model of autism spectrum disorders

Raymond H Thomas, Melissa M Meeking, Jennifer R Mepham, Lisa Tichenoff, Fred Possmayer, Suya Liu, Derrick F MacFabe

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The CCL2 synthesis inhibitor bindarit targets cells of the neurovascular unit, and suppresses experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

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Neuronal toll-like receptor 4 signaling induces brain endothelial activation and neutrophil transmigration in vitro

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Systemic immune challenges trigger and drive Alzheimer-like neuropathology in mice

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IL-1β reactivity and the development of severe fatigue after military deployment: a longitudinal study

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The persistent release of HMGB1 contributes to tactile hyperalgesia in a rodent model of neuropathic pain

Polina Feldman, Michael R Due, Matthew S Ripsch, Rajesh Khanna, Fletcher A White

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Characterization and function of the human macrophage dopaminergic system: implications for CNS disease and drug abuse

Peter J Gaskill, Loreto Carvallo, Eliseo A Eugenin, Joan W Berman

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Neuronal c-Abl activation leads to induction of cell cycle and interferon signaling pathways

Sarah D Schlatterer, Hyeon-sook Suh, Concepcion Conejero-Goldberg, Shufen Chen, Christopher M Acker, Sunhee C Lee, Peter Davies

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TGFβ signalling plays an important role in IL4-induced alternative activation of microglia

Xiaolai Zhou, Björn Spittau, Kerstin Krieglstein

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Expression of myeloid differentiation factor 88 in neurons is not requisite for the induction of sickness behavior by interleukin-1β

Theodore P Braun, Aaron J Grossberg, Biliana O Veleva-Rotse, Julia E Maxson, Marek Szumowski, Anthony P Barnes, Daniel L Marks

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Anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective effects of an orally active apocynin derivative in pre-clinical models of Parkinson’s disease

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Protein expression profiling of inflammatory mediators in human temporal lobe epilepsy reveals co-activation of multiple chemokines and cytokines

Anne A Kan, Wilco de Jager, Marina de Wit, Cobi Heijnen, Mirjam van Zuiden, Cyrill Ferrier, Peter van Rijen, Peter Gosselaar, Ellen Hessel, Onno van Nieuwenhuizen, Pierre N E de Graan

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Preserved vascular integrity and enhanced survival following neuropilin-1 inhibition in a mouse model of CD8 T cell-initiated CNS vascular permeability

Georgette L Suidan, Jonathan W Dickerson, Holly L Johnson, Theresa W Chan, Kevin D Pavelko, Istvan Pirko, Kim B Seroogy, Aaron J Johnson

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Pharmacokinetics and modeling of immune cell trafficking: quantifying differential influences of target tissues versus lymphocytes in SJL and lipopolysaccharide-treated mice

William A Banks, Michael L Niehoff, Nicholas M Ponzio, Michelle A Erickson, Steven S Zalcman

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Apolipoprotein C-I is an APOE genotype-dependent suppressor of glial activation

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The microRNA miR-181c controls microglia-mediated neuronal apoptosis by suppressing tumor necrosis factor

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Transgenic inhibition of astroglial NF-κB protects from optic nerve damage and retinal ganglion cell loss in experimental optic neuritis

Roberta Brambilla, Galina Dvoriantchikova, David Barakat, Dmitry Ivanov, John R Bethea, Valery I Shestopalov

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Immunoglobulin G (IgG) attenuates neuroinflammation and improves neurobehavioral recovery after cervical spinal cord injury

Dung Hoang Nguyen, Newton Cho, Kajana Satkunendrarajah, James W Austin, Jian Wang, Michael G Fehlings

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Cellular sources of dysregulated cytokines in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis

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Dok2 mediates the CD200Fc attenuation of Aβ-induced changes in glia

Anthony Lyons, Eric J Downer, Derek A Costello, Niamh Murphy, Marina A Lynch

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Complement is dispensable for neurodegeneration in Niemann-Pick disease type C

Manuel E Lopez, Andres D Klein, Matthew P Scott

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Deficiency of terminal complement pathway inhibitor promotes neuronal tau pathology and degeneration in mice

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Prevention of hypoglycemia-induced neuronal death by minocycline

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670-nm light treatment reduces complement propagation following retinal degeneration

Matt Rutar, Riccardo Natoli, Rizalyn Albarracin, Krisztina Valter, Jan Provis

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Neuroexcitatory effects of morphine-3-glucuronide are dependent on Toll-like receptor 4 signaling

Michael R Due, Andrew D Piekarz, Natalie Wilson, Polina Feldman, Matthew S Ripsch, Sherry Chavez, Hang Yin, Rajesh Khanna, Fletcher A White

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Impact of intravenous immunoglobulin on the dopaminergic system and immune response in the acute MPTP mouse model of Parkinson’s disease

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TLR-4 ligation of dendritic cells is sufficient to drive pathogenic T cell function in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

Richard J Mellanby, Helen Cambrook, Darryl G Turner, Richard A O’Connor, Melanie D Leech, Florian C Kurschus, Andrew S MacDonald, Bernd Arnold, Stephen M Anderton

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Acetate supplementation reduces microglia activation and brain interleukin-1β levels in a rat model of Lyme neuroborreliosis

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Polymorphism of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) gene promoter, circulating TNF-alpha level, and cardiovascular risk factor for ischemic stroke

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Rod microglia: elongation, alignment, and coupling to form trains across the somatosensory cortex after experimental diffuse brain injury

Jenna M Ziebell, Samuel E Taylor, Tuoxin Cao, Jordan L Harrison, Jonathan Lifshitz

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Cerebrospinal fluid and plasma cytokines after subarachnoid haemorrhage: CSF interleukin-6 may be an early marker of infection

Stephen J Hopkins, Catherine J McMahon, Navneet Singh, James Galea, Margaret Hoadley, Sylvia Scarth, Hiren Patel, Andy Vail, Sharon Hulme, Nancy J Rothwell, Andrew T King, Pippa J Tyrrell

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Transcriptome analysis of the ependymal barrier during murine neurocysticercosis

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SOD1 aggregation in astrocytes following ischemia/reperfusion injury: a role of NO-mediated S-nitrosylation of protein disulfide isomerase (PDI)

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Transient hypercapnia reveals an underlying cerebrovascular pathology in a murine model for HIV-1 associated neuroinflammation: role of NO-cGMP signaling and normalization by inhibition of cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase-5

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Transcriptomics and proteomics analyses of the PACAP38 influenced ischemic brain in permanent middle cerebral artery occlusion model mice

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New perspectives on central and peripheral immune responses to acute traumatic brain injury

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Mineralocorticoid and glucocorticoid receptors differentially regulate NF-kappaB activity and pro-inflammatory cytokine production in murine BV-2 microglial cells

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Targeted blockade in lethal West Nile virus encephalitis indicates a crucial role for very late antigen (VLA)-4-dependent recruitment of nitric oxide-producing macrophages

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