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ArticleClinical and experimental immunology2010

99th Dahlem conference on infection, inflammation and chronic inflammatory disorders: symbionts and immunopathology in chronic diseases: insights from evolution.

P W Ewald

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Article 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 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 29% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 12 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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

P W EwaldDepartment of Biology and the Program on Disease Evolution, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40204, USA. pw.ewald@louisville.edu
University of Louisville · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immunological aetiologies of disease are not generally well understood, but have been attributed to intrinsic immunological imbalances, infectious triggers or persistent infections. Evolutionary considerations lead to the formulation of three feasible categories of immunopathology for common diseases. One category of hypotheses presumes that the immune system is exposed to environmental conditions to which the individual is not well adapted. One hypothesis within this category, often referred to as the hygiene hypothesis, proposes that new more hygienic environmental conditions have generated compositions of symbionts that differ from those to which humans have been adapted. A second category of hypotheses proposes that infectious agents act as triggers of immunopathology by shifting the immune system into a self-destructive state. A third category proposes that infectious agents keep the immune in a self-destructive state by causing persistent infections. To evaluate disease causation rigorously and to determine the appropriate interventions, these three categories of causation need to considered for every disease that involves immunopathology. Assessment of the progress in understanding oncogenesis and other chronic diseases emphasizes the value of such integrated assessments.

Indexed as

Biological EvolutionAdaptation, PhysiologicalAutoimmune DiseasesChronic DiseaseCommunicable DiseasesGastrointestinal TractHost-Pathogen InteractionsHumansHygieneInflammationNeoplasmsParasitic DiseasesSymbiosisVirus Diseases

Identifiers

PMID20415848
PMCPMC2841832
OpenAlexW1772717166

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