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ReviewNature reviews. Endocrinology2010

Immunomodulation with microbial vaccines to prevent type 1 diabetes mellitus.

Nikolai Petrovsky

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Review in Nature reviews. Endocrinology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 10% 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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Trial
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  4. Vaccine for Diabetes-Where Do We Stand?International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
    Review
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  6. Impact of Prebiotics and Synbiotics AdministeredAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2020
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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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nikolai PetrovskyDepartment of Endocrinology, Flinders Medical Centre, Flinders Drive, Bedford Park, Adelaide, SA 5042, Australia. nikolai.petrovsky@flinders.edu.au
Flinders Medical Centre · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Selected bacteria, viruses, parasites and nonliving, immunologically active microbial substances prevent autoimmune diabetes in animal models. Such agents might also have a protective effect in humans by providing immune stimuli critical during childhood development. The 'hygiene hypothesis' proposes that reduced exposure to environmental stimuli, including microbes, underlies the rising incidence of childhood autoimmune diseases, including type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). This hypothesis is supported by data that highlight the importance of infant exposure to environmental microbes for appropriate development of the immune system, which might explain the observation that administration of microbes or their components inhibits autoimmune disease in animals. This finding raises the possibility of using live, nonpathogenic microbes (for example, probiotics) or microbial components to modulate or 're-educate' the immune system and thereby vaccinate against T1DM. Progress has been assisted by the identification of receptors and pathways through which gut microbes influence development of the immune system. Such mechanistic data have moved a field that was once regarded as being on the scientific fringe to the mainstream, and support increased funding to advance this promising area of research in the hope that it might deliver the long awaited answer of how to safely prevent T1DM.

Indexed as

AnimalsBacterial VaccinesDiabetes Mellitus, Type 1HumansImmunomodulationProbioticsVaccinesVaccines, InactivatedViral VaccinesBacterial VaccinesVaccinesVaccines, InactivatedViral Vaccines

Identifiers

PMID20173774
OpenAlexW2012622486

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Registered trials

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