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ReviewClinics in chest medicine2000

The role of respiratory viruses in acute and chronic asthma.

A Tuffaha, J E Gern, R F Lemanske

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Review in Clinics in chest medicine, 2000. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 49 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Respiratory syncytial virus: A new era.Revista espanola de quimioterapia : publicacion oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Quimioterapia · 2024
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  3. Just as the Twig Is Bent, the Tree's Inclined.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2021
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  11. Parainfluenza viruses.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2003
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

A TuffahaDepartment of Medicine, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, USA.
J E Gern
R F Lemanske
University of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

SCOR--CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF ASTHMAP50HL056396 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI BERTICS, PAUL JOHN · 1997 to 2006
$13.8M
CYTOKINE DYSREGULATION, VIRUSES, AND CHILDHOOD ASTHMAR01HL061879 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON · PI LEMANSKE, ROBERT F · 1998 to 2001
$720k
NHLBI NIH HHS 1RO1HL61879NHLBI NIH HHS HL56396NHLBI NIH HHS P50 HL056396PHS HHS AL34891
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Respiratory infections can have dual effects related to asthma. First, there is increasing evidence that severe infections with RSV and PIV in infancy can alter lung development and physiology to increase the risks of subsequent wheezing and asthma. Second, infections with common cold viruses and influenza commonly precipitate wheezing symptoms in children and adults who already have established asthma, and RV appears to be the most important virus in producing exacerbations of the disease. The principal mechanisms by which this occurs appears to be viral replication in epithelial cells, triggering a cascade of inflammation involving granulocytes, macrophages, T cells, and secreted cytokines and mediators. The inflammatory process, although essential to clear the infection, augments pre-existing airway inflammation in asthma, leading to increased airway obstruction and lower respiratory tract symptoms. Greater understanding of virus-induced changes in inflammation and corresponding changes in airway physiology may lead to new therapeutic approaches to the treatment and prevention of virus-induced airway dysfunction.

Indexed as

Acute DiseaseAnimalsAsthmaBronchial HyperreactivityChronic DiseaseDisease Models, AnimalHumansParamyxoviridae InfectionsRespiratory Syncytial Virus Infections

Identifiers

PMID10907589
PMCPMC7115729
OpenAlexW2134232864

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Registered trials

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