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ReviewCytokine2008

An overview of IL-17 function and signaling.

Sarah L Gaffen

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Review in Cytokine, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 163 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
163citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
11.5field-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

163 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 365 citations in OpenAlex.

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103 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.

Sarah L GaffenUniversity at Buffalo, State University of New York, Department of Oral Biology, , Buffalo, NY 14214, USA. sig665@pitt.edu
University at Buffalo, State University of New York · US

Funding

Structure-Function Relationships in the IL-17 ReceptorR01AR054389 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI GAFFEN, SARAH L · 2008 to 2012
$1.8M
INTERLEUKIN-17 RECEPTOR SIGNALING IN BONER21AR050458 · NIAMS · STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO · PI GAFFEN, SARAH L. · 2005 to 2006
$309k
NIAMS NIH HHS AR054389NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR054389NIAMS NIH HHS R21 AR050458
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since the discovery of interferons over 50 years ago, efforts to understand the biochemistry, molecular biology and biological activities of cytokines have been intense and rewarding. Although there are several hundred cytokines and receptors currently recognized, they in fact fall into a fairly limited set of subfamilies (reviewed in [Ozaki K, Leonard WJ. Cytokine and cytokine receptor pleiotropy and redundancy. J Biol Chem 2002;277:29355-58 [1]; Shen F, Gaffen SL. Structure-function relationships in the IL-17 receptor: implications for signal transduction and therapy. Cytokine 2008;41:92-104 [2]). Within these families (and in some cases even outside them), cytokines share many structural and functional features that have provided a framework for understanding their biological activities and signal transduction mechanisms. This review will focus on interleukin (IL)-17, the founding member of the newest subclass of cytokines, which has received considerable attention in the last several years due to its central role in the Th17 system.

Indexed as

AnimalsAutoimmune DiseasesCytokinesHumansImmunity, InnateInterleukin-17Receptors, Interleukin-17Signal TransductionT-Lymphocytes, Helper-InducerCytokinesInterleukin-17Receptors, Interleukin-17

Identifiers

PMID18701318
PMCPMC2582446
OpenAlexW2008924149

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