Immune responses regulated by cannabidiol

JM Nichols, BLF Kaplan - Cannabis and cannabinoid research, 2020 - liebertpub.com
Introduction: Cannabidiol (CBD) as Epidiolex®(GW Pharmaceuticals) was recently
approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat rare forms of epilepsy in …

Cannabidiol as a therapeutic target: evidence of its neuroprotective and neuromodulatory function in Parkinson's disease

F Patricio, AA Morales-Andrade… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The phytocannabinoids of Cannabis sativa L. have, since ancient times, been proposed as a
pharmacological alternative for treating various central nervous system (CNS) disorders …

[HTML][HTML] Cannabinoids and epilepsy

EC Rosenberg, RW Tsien, BJ Whalley, O Devinsky - Neurotherapeutics, 2015 - Elsevier
Cannabis has been used for centuries to treat seizures. Recent anecdotal reports,
accumulating animal model data, and mechanistic insights have raised interest in cannabis …

Cannabinoids as key regulators of inflammasome signaling: a current perspective

SV Suryavanshi, I Kovalchuk, O Kovalchuk - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Inflammasomes are cytoplasmic inflammatory signaling protein complexes that detect
microbial materials, sterile inflammatory insults, and certain host-derived elements …

Direct modulation of the outer mitochondrial membrane channel, voltage-dependent anion channel 1 (VDAC1) by cannabidiol: a novel mechanism for cannabinoid …

N Rimmerman, D Ben-Hail, Z Porat, A Juknat… - Cell death & …, 2013 - nature.com
Cannabidiol (CBD) is a non-psychoactive plant cannabinoid that inhibits cell proliferation
and induces cell death of cancer cells and activated immune cells. It is not an agonist of the …

Microglia and their LAG3 checkpoint underlie the antidepressant and neurogenesis-enhancing effects of electroconvulsive stimulation

N Rimmerman, H Verdiger, H Goldenberg… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Despite evidence implicating microglia in the etiology and pathophysiology of major
depression, there is paucity of information regarding the contribution of microglia-dependent …

Cannabinoids decrease the th17 inflammatory autoimmune phenotype

E Kozela, A Juknat, N Kaushansky… - Journal of Neuroimmune …, 2013 - Springer
Cannabinoids, the Cannabis constituents, are known to possess anti-inflammatory
properties but the mechanisms involved are not understood. Here we show that the main …

Microarray and pathway analysis reveal distinct mechanisms underlying cannabinoid-mediated modulation of LPS-induced activation of BV-2 microglial cells

A Juknat, M Pietr, E Kozela, N Rimmerman, R Levy… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Cannabinoids are known to exert immunosuppressive activities. However, the mechanisms
which contribute to these effects are unknown. Using lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to activate …

Modulation of astrocyte activity by cannabidiol, a nonpsychoactive cannabinoid

E Kozela, A Juknat, Z Vogel - International journal of molecular sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
The astrocytes have gained in recent decades an enormous interest as a potential target for
neurotherapies, due to their essential and pleiotropic roles in brain physiology and …

Microglia NLRP3 inflammasome and neuroimmune signaling in substance use disorders

ML Guo, SK Roodsari, Y Cheng, RE Dempsey, W Hu - Biomolecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
During the last decade, substance use disorders (SUDs) have been increasingly recognized
as neuroinflammation-related brain diseases. Various types of abused drugs (cocaine …