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ArticleCell2012

Innate immunity to TB: a druggable balancing act.

Ajit Lalvani, Marcel A Behr, Saranya Sridhar

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Article in Cell, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. The ongoing challenge of latent tuberculosis.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2014
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ajit LalvaniTuberculosis Research Unit, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK. a.lalvani@imperial.ac.uk
Marcel A Behr
Saranya Sridhar

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tobin and colleagues show that both inhibition and excessive production of the inflammatory mediator TNFα impact the pathogenesis of tuberculosis (TB) and the response to therapy. Identifying a critical role for the genetically determined balance between pro- and anti-inflammatory eicosanoids in regulating TNFα levels provides a roadmap to tailored TB treatment based on host genotype.

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