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ReviewThe Journal of biological chemistry2011

Allergic asthma: influence of genetic and environmental factors.

Anil B Mukherjee, Zhongjian Zhang

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Review in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 78 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
78citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
6.4field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

78 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 162 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Sex chromosomes and gonadal sex interactions in airway and immune responses to allergen challenge.American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology · 2026
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  12. Targeting carboxypeptidase A/B activity with the phosphinic inhibitor C28 reduces the asthmatic response in a mouse model of house dust mite-induced asthma.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2025
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18 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Anil B MukherjeeSection on Developmental Genetics, Program on Developmental Endocrinology and Genetics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1830, USA. mukherja@exchange.nih.gov
Zhongjian Zhang
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development · USNational Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Neurodegenerative Lysosomal Storage DisordersZIAHD000910 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI MUKHERJEE, ANIL B · 2009 to 2025
$24.1M
Intramural NIH HHS
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Allergic asthma is a chronic airway inflammatory disease in which exposure to allergens causes intermittent attacks of breathlessness, airway hyper-reactivity, wheezing, and coughing. Allergic asthma has been called a "syndrome" resulting from a complex interplay between genetic and environmental factors. Worldwide, >300 million individuals are affected by this disease, and in the United States alone, it is estimated that >35 million people, mostly children, suffer from asthma. Although animal models, linkage analyses, and genome-wide association studies have identified numerous candidate genes, a solid definition of allergic asthma has not yet emerged; however, such studies have contributed to our understanding of the multiple pathways to this syndrome. In contrast with animal models, in which T-helper 2 (T(H)2) cell response is the dominant feature, in human asthma, an initial exposure to allergen results in T(H)2 cell-dependent stimulation of the immune response that mediates the production of IgE and cytokines. Re-exposure to allergen then activates mast cells, which release mediators such as histamines and leukotrienes that recruit other cells, including T(H)2 cells, which mediate the inflammatory response in the lungs. In this minireview, we discuss the current understanding of how associated genetic and environmental factors increase the complexity of allergic asthma and the challenges allergic asthma poses for the development of novel approaches to effective treatment and prevention.

Indexed as

EnvironmentAsthmaGene Expression RegulationGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseHumansPneumoniaSyndrome

Identifiers

PMID21799018
PMCPMC3190897
OpenAlexW2083370876

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