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ReviewClinical and experimental immunology2010

Translational mini-review series on Th17 cells: are T helper 17 cells really pathogenic in autoimmunity?

M I Koenders, W B van den Berg

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Review in Clinical and experimental immunology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
22citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

22 citing papers in PubMed, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The crosstalk between iron metabolism and immune tolerance in autoimmunity.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2026
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  2. Chikungunya virus-specific CD4Cell reports. Medicine · 2025
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  5. Cell-based therapies for rheumatoid arthritis: opportunities and challenges.Therapeutic advances in musculoskeletal disease · 2022
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  7. Potential role of Th17 cells in the pathogenesis of type 2 autoimmune pancreatitis.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2015
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  11. Broadening the translational immunology landscape.Clinical and experimental immunology · 2012
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

M I KoendersRheumatology Research and Advanced Therapeutics, Department of Rheumatology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
W B van den Berg
Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this review the authors discuss the evidence for T helper type 17 (Th17) cells as pathogenic T cells in autoimmunity. Studies with cytokine-deficient mice or blocking of interleukin (IL)-17, IL-21 and IL-22 have resulted in a conflicting data set. Although in the experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis model the role of Th17 cells remains a point of debate, this IL-17-producing T cell in experimental arthritis is clearly contributing to inflammation and destruction.

Indexed as

AnimalsAutoimmune DiseasesAutoimmunityEncephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, ExperimentalHumansInterleukin-17MiceMice, KnockoutT-Lymphocytes, Helper-InducerInterleukin-17

Identifiers

PMID19912250
PMCPMC2810381
OpenAlexW2062559732

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