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ArticleNature medicine2010

Glutamate joins the ranks of immunomodulators.

Anna M Hansen, Rachel R Caspi

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Article in Nature medicine, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Modulating glutamate neurotransmission inFrontiers in immunology · 2026
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  5. Not Just Neurons: Pain Is Orchestrated in Partnership with Many Non-neuronal Cells.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  10. Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Anna M Hansen
Rachel R Caspi

Funding

Genetic, Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms in Autoimmunity to RetinaZIAEY000184 · NEI · NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE · PI CASPI, RACHEL R. · 2009 to 2025
$51.7M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA EY000184
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AnimalsDendritic CellsGlutamic AcidHumansImmunologic FactorsImmunomodulationInflammation MediatorsMiceModels, BiologicalNeuroprotective AgentsNeurotransmitter AgentsSynaptic TransmissionGlutamic AcidImmunologic FactorsInflammation MediatorsNeuroprotective AgentsNeurotransmitter Agents

Identifiers

PMID20689547
PMCPMC2997749

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Registered trials

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