Evidence map›Paper›PMID 20644573›Full record

ReviewNature immunology2010

Effector T cell plasticity: flexibility in the face of changing circumstances.

Kenneth M Murphy, Brigitta Stockinger

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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 258 papers.

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258citing papers in PubMed
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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

258 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. T Cell Thoughts.Immunological reviews · 2026
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  11. Using Specific Reporter Mice to Assess CD4Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
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  17. The PD-1/PD-L1 Axis in the Biology of MASLD.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  19. Potential role of mesenchymal stem cells in T cell aging.Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) · 2023
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198 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.

Kenneth M MurphyHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Pathology & Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. kmurphy@pathology.wustl.edu
Brigitta Stockinger

Funding

ANALYSIS OF BIDIRECTIONAL SIGNALING MECHANISMS FOR BTLA AND HVEM IN AUTOIMMUNITYR01AI076427 · NIAID · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI MURPHY, KENNETH M · 2009 to 2010
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Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIAID NIH HHS R01 AI076427
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As more states of CD4 T cell differentiation are uncovered, their flexibility is also beginning to be recognized. Components that control the plasticity of CD4 T cell populations include cellular conditions, clonality, transcriptional circuitry and chromatin modifications. Appearance of cellular flexibility may arise from truly flexible genetic programs or, alternatively, from heterogeneous populations. New tools will be needed to define the rules that allow or prohibit cellular transitions.

Indexed as

Adaptive ImmunityAnimalsCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesCell DifferentiationChromatinEpigenesis, GeneticHumansT-Lymphocyte SubsetsTranscription FactorsTranscription, GeneticChromatinTranscription Factors

Identifiers

PMID20644573
PMCPMC3249647

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