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ReviewClinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology2008

Immunoregulatory roles of eosinophils: a new look at a familiar cell.

P Akuthota, H B Wang, L A Spencer, P F Weller

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In one paragraph

Review in Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 80 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
80citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

80 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 174 citations in OpenAlex.

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  20. Eosinophils: A Friend or Foe in Human Health and Diseases.Kidney diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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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 2 institutions in 1 country.

P AkuthotaDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
H B Wang
L A Spencer
P F Weller
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · USPulmonary and Critical Care Associates · US

Funding

Human Eosinophils: Mechanisms of FunctioningR37AI020241 · NIAID · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI WELLER, PETER F · 2010 to 2019
$4.5M
Airways Eosinophils as Antigen-presenting Cells in AsthmaR01AI051645 · NIAID · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI WELLER, PETER F · 2001 to 2011
$3.8M
HUMAN EOSINOPHILS: MECHANISMS OF FUNCTIONINGR01AI020241 · NIAID · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI WELLER, PETER F · 1985 to 2009
$3.5M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI020241NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI051645NIAID NIH HHS R01AI20241NIAID NIH HHS R01AI51645NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI020241
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Eosinophils are usually considered as end-stage degranulating effector cells of innate immunity. However, accumulating evidence has revealed additional roles for eosinophils that are immunoregulatory in nature in both the adaptive and innate arms of immunity. Specifically, eosinophils have key immunoregulatory roles as professional antigen-presenting cells and as modulators of CD4(+) T cell, dendritic cell, B cell, mast cell, neutrophil, and basophil functions. This review addresses the emerging immunoregulatory roles of eosinophils with a focus on recent data that support this new paradigm. Recognizing both the effector and immunoregulatory functions of eosinophils will enable a fuller understanding of the roles of eosinophils in allergic airways inflammation and may be pertinent to therapies that target eosinophils both for their acute and ongoing immunomodulatory functions.

Indexed as

AnimalsEosinophilsHumansImmunity, Innate

Identifiers

PMID18727793
PMCPMC2735457
OpenAlexW2081436744

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