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ReviewNature reviews. Immunology2009

Transcriptional control of the inflammatory response.

Ruslan Medzhitov, Tiffany Horng

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Review in Nature reviews. Immunology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 576 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
576citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
18.4field-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

576 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 1,016 citations in OpenAlex.

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516 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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ruslan MedzhitovHoward Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA. ruslan.medzhitov@yale.edu
Tiffany Horng
Harvard University · USYale University · US

Funding

Howard Hughes Medical Institute
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inflammation is a multicomponent response to tissue stress, injury and infection, and a crucial point of its control is at the level of gene transcription. The inducible inflammatory gene expression programme--such as that triggered by Toll-like receptor signalling in macrophages--is comprised of several coordinately regulated sets of genes that encode key functional programmes; these are controlled by three classes of transcription factors, as well as various transcriptional co-regulators and chromatin modifications. Here, we discuss the mechanisms of and the emerging principles in the transcriptional regulation of inflammatory responses in diverse physiological settings.

Indexed as

Gene Expression RegulationAnimalsChromatinCytokinesHistonesHumansInflammationLipopolysaccharidesProtein KinasesSignal TransductionTranscription FactorsChromatinCytokinesHistonesLipopolysaccharidesProtein KinasesTranscription Factors

Identifiers

PMID19859064
OpenAlexW2090602346

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