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ReviewImmunity2010

From vaccines to memory and back.

Federica Sallusto, Antonio Lanzavecchia, Koichi Araki, Rafi Ahmed

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In one paragraph

Review in Immunity, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 384 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
384citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
15.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

384 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 635 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Mucosal immune response in biology, disease prevention and treatment.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2025
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  4. A self-amplifying mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate induces safe and robust protective immunity in preclinical models.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2022
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  18. IL17FMolecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026
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  20. Frontiers in immunology · 2026
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324 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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Federica SallustoInstitute for Research in Biomedicine, CH-6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland. federica.sallusto@irb.unisi.ch
Antonio Lanzavecchia
Koichi Araki
Rafi Ahmed
Emory University · USETH Zurich · CH

Funding

T CELL MEMORY TO VIRUSESR01AI030048 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI AHMED, RAFI · 1990 to 2022
$5.2M
Translational Regulation of CD8 T-Cell Immunity - Transfer of R01AI139675 from EmoryR01AI139675 · NIAID · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI ARAKI, KOICHI · 2018 to 2022
$2.3M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI030048NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI139675
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vaccines work by eliciting an immune response and consequent immunological memory that mediates protection from infection or disease. Recently, new methods have been developed to dissect the immune response in experimental animals and humans, which have led to increased understanding of the molecular mechanisms that control differentiation and maintenance of memory T and B cells. In this review we will provide an overview of the cellular organization of immune memory and underline some of the outstanding questions on immunological memory and how they pertain to vaccination strategies. Finally we will discuss how we can learn about antigen design from the interrogation of our memory T and B cells-a journey from vaccines to memory and back.

Indexed as

Immunologic MemoryAntibodies, MonoclonalB-LymphocytesCell DifferentiationDrug DesignHumansImmunityT-LymphocytesVaccinationVaccinesAntibodies, MonoclonalVaccines

Identifiers

PMID21029957
PMCPMC3760154
OpenAlexW2135360970

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Registered trials

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