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IFN

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This page aggregates everything SciDEX knows about IFN: its mechanistic relationships (Knowledge Graph edges), hypotheses targeting it, analyses mentioning it, and supporting scientific papers. The interactive graph below shows its immediate neighbors. All content is AI-synthesized from peer-reviewed literature.

1605Connections

2Hypotheses

0Analyses

50Outgoing

50Incoming

Summary

IFN is a concept in neurodegeneration research. Key relationships include: activates, interacts with, inhibits. Associated with AD, ALI, ALS. Connected to 702 entities in the SciDEX knowledge graph.

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💡 Concept Info

Name	IFN
Key Genes/Proteins	STING, CGAS, NF-ΚB
Related Diseases	Inflammation, Aging, Tumor, Als, Cancer
Related Pathways	Innate Immunity, Autophagy, Immune Response, Nf-Κb
Linked Hypotheses	2 hypotheses

Wiki Pages (20)

Knowledge base pages for this entity

Pathway Diagram

graph TD
    IFN["IFN"]
    IFN -->|"inhibits"| Tumor["Tumor"]
    IFN -->|"inhibits"| Cancer["Cancer"]
    IFN -->|"interacts"| ALS["ALS"]
    IFN -->|"interacts"| Fibrosis["Fibrosis"]
    IFN -->|"activates"| Inflammation["Inflammation"]
    IFN -->|"activates"| Aging["Aging"]
    IFN -->|"inhibits"| Neuroinflammation["Neuroinflammation"]
    STING["STING"] -->|"activates"| IFN
    CGAS["CGAS"] -->|"activates"| IFN
    IRF3["IRF3"] -->|"activates"| IFN
    DNA["DNA"] -->|"activates"| IFN
    PARP1["PARP1"] -->|"inhibits"| IFN
    ROS["ROS"] -->|"interacts"| IFN
    RICTOR["RICTOR"] -->|"interacts"| IFN
    MTOR["MTOR"] -->|"interacts"| IFN
    MAP1LC3A["MAP1LC3A"] -->|"interacts"| IFN
    LC3["LC3"] -->|"interacts"| IFN

Outgoing (957)

Target	Relation	Type	Str
Innate Immunity	activates	pathway	1.00
Inflammation	activates	disease	1.00
Aging	activates	disease	1.00
Autophagy	activates	pathway	1.00
Immune Response	activates	pathway	1.00
Tumor	activates	disease	1.00
Als	activates	disease	1.00
Cancer	activates	disease	1.00
Neuroinflammation	activates	disease	1.00
Infection	activates	disease	1.00
Nf-Κb	activates	pathway	1.00
Als	inhibits	disease	0.95
Als	therapeutic_target	disease	0.95
neuroinflammation	activates	disease	0.90
unfolded protein response	participates_in	pathway	0.90
microglia	activates	cell_type	0.90
microglia	inhibits	cell_type	0.90
oxidative stress response	participates_in	pathway	0.90
cGAS-STING	participates_in	pathway	0.90
neural stem cells	activates	cell_type	0.90
Apoptosis	activates	pathway	0.90
Mtor	activates	pathway	0.90
Toll-Like Receptor	activates	pathway	0.90
Cancer	inhibits	disease	0.85
Inflammation	inhibits	disease	0.85
Inflammation	regulates	disease	0.85
Inflammation	implicated_in	disease	0.85
Carcinoma	activates	disease	0.85
Tumor	therapeutic_target	disease	0.85
Autoimmune	therapeutic_target	disease	0.85
Neurodegeneration	activates	disease	0.85
NF-kB signaling	participates_in	pathway	0.80
neurons	activates	cell_type	0.80
microglia	associated_with	cell_type	0.80
stem cells	expressed_in	cell_type	0.80
neurons	expressed_in	cell_type	0.80
T cells	expressed_in	cell_type	0.80
endothelial cells	expressed_in	cell_type	0.80
MICROGLIA	activates	gene	0.80
Apoptosis	inhibits	pathway	0.80
Tgf-Β	activates	pathway	0.80
Immune Response	therapeutic_target	pathway	0.80
Tumor	inhibits	disease	0.75
Inflammation	associated_with	disease	0.75
Neuroinflammation	inhibits	disease	0.75
Autoimmune	activates	disease	0.75
Asthma	regulates	disease	0.75
Als	regulates	disease	0.75
Infection	implicated_in	disease	0.75
Psoriasis	activates	disease	0.75

Incoming (648)

Source	Relation	Type	Str
STING	activates	protein	1.00
CGAS	activates	protein	1.00
DNA	activates	gene	1.00
P62	activates	gene	1.00
INFLAMMATION	activates	gene	1.00
AUTOPHAGY	activates	gene	1.00
CYTOKINES	activates	gene	1.00
GENES	activates	gene	1.00
TNF	activates	gene	1.00
TNF-Α	activates	gene	1.00
IL-6	activates	gene	1.00
NF-ΚB	activates	gene	1.00
MICROGLIA	activates	gene	1.00
CGAS-STING	activates	gene	1.00
NEUROINFLAMMATION	activates	gene	1.00
CANCER	activates	gene	1.00
IRF3	activates	protein	0.94
APOPTOSIS	activates	gene	0.90
AKT	activates	gene	0.90
DNA	disrupts	gene	0.80
NFKB	interacts_with	pathway	0.80
DNA	interacts_with	gene	0.80
APOPTOSIS	inhibits	gene	0.80
TLR4	activates	gene	0.80
MITOCHONDRIA	activates	gene	0.80
TBK1	activates	gene	0.80
CYTOKINES	contributes_to	gene	0.80
CYTOKINES	inhibits	gene	0.80
IL-6	inhibits	gene	0.80
CD8	activates	gene	0.80
ROS	activates	gene	0.80
MTORC1	activates	gene	0.80
NEURODEGENERATION	activates	gene	0.80
TNF	inhibits	gene	0.80
CGAS	interacts_with	gene	0.70
ATP	interacts_with	gene	0.70
MITOCHONDRIAL DNA	activates	gene	0.70
MTDNA	activates	gene	0.70
MTOR	activates	gene	0.70
STAT3	activates	gene	0.70
GENES	associated_with	gene	0.70
INFLAMMATION	associated_with	gene	0.70
STAT1	activates	gene	0.70
SQSTM1	activates	gene	0.70
TLR	activates	gene	0.70
STING1	activates	gene	0.70
INFLAMMATION	implicated_in	gene	0.70
AGING	activates	gene	0.70
MAVS	activates	gene	0.70
ATG5	activates	gene	0.70

Targeting Hypotheses (2)

Hypotheses where this entity is a therapeutic target

Hypothesis	Score	Disease	Analysis
STING Antagonism Prevents Acute-to-Chronic Neuroinflammation	0.605	neuroinflammation	What molecular mechanisms drive the tran
TBK1 Loss-of-Function Amplifies C1q-Mediated Synapse Elimina	0.520	neurodegeneration	How do the seven novel ALS genes functio

Mentioning Analyses (0)

Scientific analyses that reference this entity

No analyses mention this entity

Related Papers (0)

Scientific publications cited in analyses involving this entity

Title & PMID	Authors	Journal	Year	Citations
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IFN

Understanding Entity Pages

Summary

Wiki Pages (20)

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