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Review
. 2022:276:213-237.
doi: 10.1007/164_2021_542.

TLR Signaling in Brain Immunity

Mengdi Guo  1 , Yun Xu  1 , Cun-Jin Zhang  2
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Review

TLR Signaling in Brain Immunity

Mengdi Guo et al. Handb Exp Pharmacol. 2022.

Abstract

Toll-like receptors (TLRs) comprise a group of transmembrane proteins with crucial roles in pathogen recognition, immune responses, and signal transduction. This family represented the first line of immune homeostasis in an evolutionarily conserved manner. Extensive researches in the past two decades had emphasized their structural and functional characteristics under both healthy and pathological conditions. In this review, we summarized the current understanding of TLR signaling in the central nervous system (CNS), which had been viewed as a previously "immune-privileged" but now "immune-specialized" area, with major implications for further investigation of pathological nature as well as potential therapeutic manipulation of TLR signaling in various neurological disorders.

Keywords: Central nervous system; Immune signaling pathways; Neurological disorders; Toll-like receptor.

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