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ReviewNature immunology2010

Checkpoints in lymphocyte development and autoimmune disease.

Harald von Boehmer, Fritz Melchers

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Review in Nature immunology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 129 papers.

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129citing papers in PubMed
10.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

129 citing papers in PubMed, 288 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Harald von BoehmerHarvard Medical School and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. harald_von_boehmer@dfci.harvard.edu
Fritz Melchers
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin · DEDana-Farber Cancer Institute · US

Funding

Generation of antigen-specific regulation T cellsR37AI053102 · NIAID · DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE · PI VON BOEHMER, HARALD · 2003 to 2012
$5.8M
pTa-controlled reporter to identify lymphoid precursorR01AI051378 · NIAID · DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE · PI VON BOEHMER, HARALD · 2003 to 2012
$4.1M
ROLE OF THE PRE-T CELL RECEPTOR IN LINEAGE COMMITMENTR01AI045846 · NIAID · DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE · PI VON BOEHMER, HARALD · 2000 to 2010
$4.0M
NCI NIH HHS P0I CA 10990NIAID NIH HHS R0I AI 045846NIAID NIH HHS R0I AI 051378NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI053102
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antigen receptor-controlled checkpoints in B lymphocyte development are crucial for the prevention of autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus. Checkpoints at the stage of pre-B cell receptor (pre-BCR) and BCR expression can eliminate certain autoreactive BCRs either by deletion of or anergy induction in cells expressing autoreactive BCRs or by receptor editing. For T cells, the picture is more complex because there are regulatory T (T(reg)) cells that mediate dominant tolerance, which differs from the recessive tolerance mediated by deletion and anergy. Negative selection of thymocytes may be as essential as T(reg) cell generation in preventing autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, but supporting evidence is scarce. Here we discuss several scenarios in which failures at developmental checkpoints result in autoimmunity.

Indexed as

AnimalsAutoimmune DiseasesAutoimmunityB-LymphocytesHumansImmune ToleranceLymphocytesModels, ImmunologicalPre-B Cell ReceptorsT-LymphocytesPre-B Cell Receptors

Identifiers

PMID20016505
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