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ReviewMucosal immunology2010

Regulatory T cells in many flavors control asthma.

A Ray, A Khare, N Krishnamoorthy, Z Qi, P Ray

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Review in Mucosal immunology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 80 papers.

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80citing papers in PubMed
9.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

80 citing papers in PubMed, 163 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. T helper 2 cells in asthma.The Journal of experimental medicine · 2023
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  17. CD8Allergy, asthma, and clinical immunology : official journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2021
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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

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

A RayDivision of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. raya@pitt.edu
A Khare
N Krishnamoorthy
Z Qi
P Ray
University of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

Surrogate Biomarkers for Disease Progression in IPFP50HL084932 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI PILEWSKI, JOSEPH MARK · 2006 to 2010
$12.2M
MECHANISMS OF ANTIGEN INDUCED TOLERANCE IN THE LUNGR01AI048927 · NIAID · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI RAY, ANURADHA · 2001 to 2020
$8.0M
DC-T Cell Interactions in Pulmonary Immune ResponsesR01HL077430 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI RAY, ANURADHA · 2004 to 2012
$3.0M
DIFFERENTIAL CHEMOKINE GENE EXPRESSION IN THE LUNGR01HL060207 · NHLBI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI RAY, PRABIR · 1998 to 2008
$2.3M
NHLBI NIH HHS HL060207NHLBI NIH HHS HL 077430NHLBI NIH HHS HL 084932NHLBI NIH HHS P50 HL084932NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL060207NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL077430NIAID NIH HHS AI 048927NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI048927
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

That regulatory T cells (Tregs) have a crucial role in controlling allergic diseases such as asthma is now undisputed. The cytokines most commonly implicated in Treg-mediated suppression of allergic asthma are transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) and interleukin (IL)-10). In addition to naturally occurring Tregs, adaptive Tregs, induced in response to foreign antigens, have been shown in recent studies. The concept of inducible/adaptive Tregs (iTregs) has considerable significance in preventing asthma if generated early enough in life. This is because cytokines such as IL-4 and IL-6 inhibit Foxp3 induction in naive CD4+ T cells and therefore de novo generation of Tregs can be expected to be less efficient when it is concomitant with effector cell development in response to an allergen. However, if iTregs can be induced, the process of infectious tolerance would facilitate expansion of the iTreg pool as suggested in the recent literature. It is tempting to speculate that there is a window of opportunity in early life in the context of a relatively immature immune system that is permissive for the generation of iTregs specific to a spectrum of allergens that would regulate asthma for lifelong. The focus of this review is the relevance of nTregs and iTregs in controlling asthma from early life into adulthood, the mechanisms underlying Treg function, and the prospects for using our current concepts to harness the full potential of Tregs to limit disease development and progression.

Indexed as

Immune ToleranceAllergensAnimalsAsthmaForkhead Transcription FactorsHumansInterleukin-10Interleukin-4Interleukin-6T-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryTransforming Growth Factor betaAllergensForkhead Transcription FactorsFOXP3 protein, humanIL10 protein, humanIL4 protein, humanIL6 protein, humanInterleukin-10Interleukin-4Interleukin-6Transforming Growth Factor beta

Identifiers

PMID20164832
PMCPMC3039023
OpenAlexW1967311384

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