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ReviewVeterinary research2011

Is there a direct role for erythrocytes in the immune response?

Davinia Morera, Simon A MacKenzie

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Review in Veterinary research, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.

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52citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

52 citing papers in PubMed, 131 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Immunomodulatory effect of CD71BMC nephrology · 2025
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  8. Cell-drug conjugates.Nature biomedical engineering · 2024
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  9. Transcriptomics of early responses to purifiedFrontiers in immunology · 2024
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  12. Farang (Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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  17. Nucleic Acid Delivery with Red-Blood-Cell-Based Carriers.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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  18. Chemical science · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Davinia MoreraInstitute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Barcelona, Spain. Simon.Mackenzie@uab.es.
Simon A MacKenzie
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Erythrocytes are highly abundant circulating cells in the vertebrates, which, with the notable exception of mammals, remain nucleated throughout the entire life cycle. The major function associated with these cells is respiratory gas exchange however other functions including interaction with the immune system have been attributed to these cells. Many viral, prokaryotic and eukaryotic pathogens directly target this cell type and across the vertebrate group a significant number of related pathologies have been reported. Across the primary literature mechanisms of interaction, invasion and replication between viruses and erythrocytes have been well described however the functional response of the erythrocyte has been poorly studied. A fragmented series of reports spanning the vertebrates suggests that these cells are capable of functional responses to viral infection. In contrast, in-depth proteomic studies using human erythrocytes have strongly progressed throughout the past decade providing a rich source of information related to protein expression and potential function. Furthermore information at the gene expression level is becoming available. Here we provide a review of erythrocyte-pathogen interactions, erythrocyte functions in immunity and propose in light of recent -omics research that the nucleated erythrocytes may have a direct role in the immune response.

Indexed as

AnimalsErythroblastsErythrocytesHost-Pathogen InteractionsProteomicsVertebrates

Identifiers

PMID21801407
PMCPMC3199785
OpenAlexW2101540027

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