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TNF signaling inhibition in the CNS: implications for normal brain function and neurodegenerative disease

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Neuroinflammation, October 2008
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Title
TNF signaling inhibition in the CNS: implications for normal brain function and neurodegenerative disease
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Journal of Neuroinflammation, October 2008
DOI 10.1186/1742-2094-5-45
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Melissa K McCoy, Malú G Tansey

Abstract

The role of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) as an immune mediator has long been appreciated but its function in the brain is still unclear. TNF receptor 1 (TNFR1) is expressed in most cell types, and can be activated by binding of either soluble TNF (solTNF) or transmembrane TNF (tmTNF), with a preference for solTNF; whereas TNFR2 is expressed primarily by microglia and endothelial cells and is preferentially activated by tmTNF. Elevation of solTNF is a hallmark of acute and chronic neuroinflammation as well as a number of neurodegenerative conditions including ischemic stroke, Alzheimer's (AD), Parkinson's (PD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and multiple sclerosis (MS). The presence of this potent inflammatory factor at sites of injury implicates it as a mediator of neuronal damage and disease pathogenesis, making TNF an attractive target for therapeutic development to treat acute and chronic neurodegenerative conditions. However, new and old observations from animal models and clinical trials reviewed here suggest solTNF and tmTNF exert different functions under normal and pathological conditions in the CNS. A potential role for TNF in synaptic scaling and hippocampal neurogenesis demonstrated by recent studies suggest additional in-depth mechanistic studies are warranted to delineate the distinct functions of the two TNF ligands in different parts of the brain prior to large-scale development of anti-TNF therapies in the CNS. If inactivation of TNF-dependent inflammation in the brain is warranted by additional pre-clinical studies, selective targeting of TNFR1-mediated signaling while sparing TNFR2 activation may lessen adverse effects of anti-TNF therapies in the CNS.

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Country Count As %
United States 9 1%
Germany 3 <1%
United Kingdom 3 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Japan 2 <1%
Mexico 2 <1%
Iran, Islamic Republic of 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
Other 5 <1%
Unknown 617 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 134 21%
Researcher 98 15%
Student > Master 88 14%
Student > Bachelor 81 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 30 5%
Other 109 17%
Unknown 107 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 181 28%
Neuroscience 100 15%
Medicine and Dentistry 89 14%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 57 9%
Immunology and Microbiology 20 3%
Other 66 10%
Unknown 134 21%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 September 2023.
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of Neuroinflammation
#5
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