Illuminating the black box of TNF action in tuberculous granulomas.

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.

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.

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

1. Expression of TNF-α, VEGF-A and Microvessel Density in Cerebral Alveolar Echinococcosis and Their Correlation with Perilesional Brain Edema.Acta parasitologica · 2025
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2. Reactivation of latent tuberculosis with TNF inhibitors: critical role of the beta 2 chain of the IL-12 receptor.Cellular & molecular immunology · 2021
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3. Selected cytokine pathways in rheumatoid arthritis.Seminars in immunopathology · 2017
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4. Low induction of proinflammatory cytokines parallels evolutionary success of modern strains within the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing genotype.Infection and immunity · 2013
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5. Identification of a major locus, TNF1, that controls BCG-triggered tumor necrosis factor production by leukocytes in an area hyperendemic for tuberculosis.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2013
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6. Immune vulnerability of infants to tuberculosis.Clinical & developmental immunology · 2013
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7. A TNF-regulated recombinatorial macrophage immune receptor implicated in granuloma formation in tuberculosis.PLoS pathogens · 2011
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8. The role of the granuloma in expansion and dissemination of early tuberculous infection.Cell · 2009
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Corrections and comments

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  Tumor necrosis factor signaling mediates resistance to mycobacteria by inhibiting bacterial growth and macrophage death.2008

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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