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ReviewNature reviews. Drug discovery2010

Therapeutic potential of complement modulation.

Eric Wagner, Michael M Frank

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Review in Nature reviews. Drug discovery, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 95 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
95citing papers in PubMed
5.8field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

95 citing papers in PubMed, 219 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. RNA therapeutics: current status and future directions.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2026
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  2. Innate immunity: current understandings and future perspectives.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2026
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  3. Complement activation in kidney transplantation.Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association · 2026
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  6. Exosomal-complement system activation in preeclampsia.The journal of obstetrics and gynaecology research · 2025
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  7. Assessing the causal relationship between plasma proteins and osteoporosis: novel insights into pathological mechanisms and therapeutic implications.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2024
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  8. Immunodeficiency: Complement disorders.Allergy and asthma proceedings · 2024
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  12. Complement System Inhibitory Drugs in a Zebrafish (International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  17. Engineering autoreactive T and B cell responses toward active immunotherapy for inflammatory diseases.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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  19. Aberrant Complement System Activation in Neurological Disorders.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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35 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 2 countries.

Eric WagnerCentre de Recherche en Rhumatologie et Immunologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec and Départment de Microbiologie-Infectiologie et Immunologie, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.
Michael M Frank
Duke Medical Center · USUniversité Laval · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The complement system is an essential component of innate immunity that has been more recently recognized as an unexpected player in various pathological states. These include age-related macular degeneration, atypical haemolytic uraemic syndrome, allergy, foetal loss, and axonal and myelin degradation after trauma. Its importance has also been recognized in physiological processes including haematopoietic stem cell homing to the bone marrow, liver regeneration and modulation of adaptive immune responses. Although the complement system has long been known to be involved in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, few agents that target the complement system are currently approved for clinical use. However, renewed interest in modulating this system in various pathological conditions has emerged, and several agents are now in development.

Indexed as

Drug Delivery SystemsAnimalsAutoimmune DiseasesClinical Trials as TopicComplement ActivationComplement System ProteinsDrug DesignHumansInflammationReceptors, ComplementComplement System ProteinsReceptors, Complement

Identifiers

PMID19960015
OpenAlexW1993917927

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Registered trials

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