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ReviewNature reviews. Drug discovery2006

Therapeutic potential of Toll-like receptor 9 activation.

Arthur M Krieg

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Review in Nature reviews. Drug discovery, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 483 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
483citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
35.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

483 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 1,231 citations in OpenAlex.

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423 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Arthur M KriegColey Pharmaceutical Group, Inc., 93 Worcester Street, Suite 101, Wellesley, Massachusetts 02481, USA. akrieg@coleypharma.com
Wellesley College · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the decade since the discovery that mouse B cells respond to certain unmethylated CpG dinucleotides in bacterial DNA, a specific receptor for these 'CpG motifs' has been identified, Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9), and a new approach to immunotherapy has moved into the clinic based on the use of synthetic oligodeoxynucleotides (ODN) as TLR9 agonists. This review highlights the current understanding of the mechanism of action of these CpG ODN, and provides an overview of the preclinical data and early human clinical trial results using these drugs to improve vaccines and treat cancer, infectious disease and allergy/asthma.

Indexed as

AnimalsAsthmaClinical Trials as TopicCommunicable DiseasesCpG IslandsHumansHypersensitivityNeoplasmsOligodeoxyribonucleotidesStructure-Activity RelationshipToll-Like Receptor 9VaccinesCPG-oligonucleotideOligodeoxyribonucleotidesToll-Like Receptor 9Vaccines

Identifiers

PMID16763660
OpenAlexW1964196894

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.