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ReviewNature reviews. Immunology2002

The immunology of susceptibility and resistance to Leishmania major in mice.

David Sacks, Nancy Noben-Trauth

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Review in Nature reviews. Immunology, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 539 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

539 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

David SacksLaboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. dsacks@nih.gov
Nancy Noben-Trauth

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Established models of T-helper-2-cell dominance in BALB/c mice infected with Leishmania major -- involving the early production of interleukin-4 by a small subset of Leishmania-specific CD4+ T cells -- have been refined by accumulating evidence that this response is not sufficient and, under some circumstances, not required to promote susceptibility. In addition, more recent studies in L. major-resistant mice have revealed complexities in the mechanisms responsible for acquired immunity, which necessitate the redesign of vaccines against Leishmania and other pathogens that require sustained cell-mediated immune responses.

Indexed as

AnimalsCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesDisease SusceptibilityHumansInterleukin-12Interleukin-4Leishmania majorLeishmaniasis, CutaneousMiceMice, Inbred BALB CProtozoan VaccinesTh1 CellsTh2 CellsInterleukin-12Interleukin-4Protozoan Vaccines

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PMID12415308

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