Evidence map›Paper›PMID 18182579›Full record

ReviewBlood2008

Hematopoietic cytokines.

Donald Metcalf

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In one paragraph

Review in Blood, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 225 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
225citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
15.0field-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

225 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 511 citations in OpenAlex.

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165 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.

Donald MetcalfWalter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Victoria, Australia. metcalf@wehi.edu.au
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research · AU

Funding

Differentiation of Granulocytes and MacrophagesR37CA022556 · NCI · WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INST MEDICAL RES · PI METCALF, DONALD · 2005 to 2014
$2.3M
DIFFERENTIATION OF GRANULOCYTES AND MACROPHAGESR01CA022556 · NCI · WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INST MEDICAL RES · PI METCALF, DONALD · 1985 to 2004
$900k
NCI NIH HHS CA22556NCI NIH HHS R01 CA022556NCI NIH HHS R37 CA022556
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The production of hematopoietic cells is under the tight control of a group of hematopoietic cytokines. Each cytokine has multiple actions mediated by receptors whose cytoplasmic domains contain specialized regions initiating the various responses-survival, proliferation, differentiation commitment, maturation, and functional activation. Individual cytokines can be lineage specific or can regulate cells in multiple lineages, and for some cell types, such as stem cells or megakaryocyte progenitors, the simultaneous action of multiple cytokines is required for proliferative responses. The same cytokines control basal and emergency hematopoietic cell proliferation. Three cytokines, erythropoietin, granulocyte colony-stimulating factor, and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor, have now been in routine clinical use to stimulate cell production and in total have been used in the management of many millions of patients. In this little review, discussion will be restricted to those cytokines well established as influencing the production of hematopoietic cells and will exclude newer candidate regulators and those active on lymphoid cells. As requested, this account will describe the cytokines in a historical manner, using a sequential format of discovery, understanding, validation, and puzzlement, a sequence that reflects the evolving views on these cytokines over the past 50 years.

Indexed as

AnimalsCell DifferentiationCell ProliferationCell SurvivalCytokinesHematinicsHumansLymphocytesMegakaryocytesProtein Structure, TertiaryReceptors, CytokineCytokinesHematinicsReceptors, Cytokine

Identifiers

PMID18182579
PMCPMC2200848
OpenAlexW4236153851

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Registered trials

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