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ReviewNature reviews. Nephrology2010

Tolerance: an overview and perspectives.

Herman Waldmann

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Review in Nature reviews. Nephrology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 13% 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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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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.

Herman WaldmannSir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RE, UK. herman.waldmann@path.ox.ac.uk
University of Oxford · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council G1000215
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Self tolerance is dependent on mechanisms that operate on T cells and B cells from the earliest stages, that is, from when they first express anti-self-receptors in the primary lymphoid organs of the thymus and bone marrow, all the way through to when they engage with self antigens in the peripheral immune system and within tissues themselves. This continuum of checkpoints and fail-safes ensures that the risk of developing harmful autoimmune diseases remains very small. Certain tissues have a degree of privilege that allows them to mute the immune response against them by mechanisms that are also well represented in cancers. An understanding of the underlying mechanisms of self tolerance is hoped to spawn a new range of therapeutics designed to both reprogram the immune system to avoid long-term intense immunosuppression, and to override the immune system to achieve more effective immunity against cancers and persistent viral infections.

Indexed as

HumansImmunotherapySelf ToleranceT-Lymphocytes, Regulatory

Identifiers

PMID20717099
OpenAlexW2074244815

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