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ReviewJournal of neurology2011

Tumor necrosis factor-alpha as a potential therapeutic target in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies.

Joerg-Patrick Stübgen

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Review in Journal of neurology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Trial
  2. [Therapy of myositis].Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie · 2013
    Article
  3. Review
  4. Novel approaches in the treatment of myositis and myopathies.Therapeutic advances in musculoskeletal disease · 2012
    Article
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.

Joerg-Patrick StübgenDepartment of Neurology and Neuroscience, Weill Cornell Medical College/New York-Presbyterian Hospital, 525 East 68th Street, New York, NY 10065-4885, USA. pstuebge@med.cornell.edu
New York Hospital Queens · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The cytokine, tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα), has been implicated in many aspects of immune system development, immune response regulation, and T cell-mediated tissue injury. TNFα plays a less well-defined role in the pathogenesis of the idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM) group of disorders, and has been considered a potential therapeutic target. Observational studies of TNFα-blockade in (mostly refractory) IIM have yielded inconsistent beneficial results so that administration of these biological agents is presently deemed an unreliable alternative treatment strategy. Moreover, anti-TNFα therapy has the rare potential to trigger myositis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, hinting at a pre-existing "overlap disorder". The full potential of TNFα-antagonism will be realized only if randomized controlled trials ascertain appropriate treatment regimens and identify patient subgroups most likely to benefit from such therapy.

Indexed as

AdultAnimalsAnti-Inflammatory AgentsFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedMyositisTumor Necrosis Factor-alphaYoung AdultAnti-Inflammatory AgentsTumor Necrosis Factor-alpha

Identifiers

PMID21253756
OpenAlexW2027517199

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