Evidence map›Paper›PMID 16982835›Full record

ArticleInfection and immunity2006

Monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 does not contribute to protective immunity against pneumococcal pneumonia.

Mark C Dessing, Alex F de Vos, Sandrine Florquin, Tom van der Poll

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Article in Infection and immunity, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 22% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Macrophage Rac2 Is Required to Reduce the Severity of Cigarette Smoke-induced Pneumonia.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2018
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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

4 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Mark C DessingCenter for Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Room F0-117, Academic Medical Center, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands. m.c.dessing@amc.uva.nl
Alex F de Vos
Sandrine Florquin
Tom van der Poll
Institute of Infection and Immunity · CACenter for Molecular Medicine and Immunology · USUniversity of Amsterdam · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To determine the role of monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP-1) during pneumococcal pneumonia, MCP-1 knockout and wild-type mice were infected with Streptococcus pneumoniae. Pulmonary MCP-1 levels were strongly correlated to bacterial loads in wild-type mice. However, MCP-1 knockout and wild-type mice were indistinguishable with respect to bacterial growth, inflammatory responses, and lethality.

Indexed as

AnimalsChemokine CCL2ImmunityMiceMice, KnockoutPneumonia, PneumococcalStreptococcus pneumoniaeChemokine CCL2

Identifiers

PMID16982835
PMCPMC1698042
OpenAlexW2032715240

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