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ReviewNature medicine2012

T cell homing to epithelial barriers in allergic disease.

Sabina A Islam, Andrew D Luster

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In one paragraph

Review in Nature medicine, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 112 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
112citing papers in PubMed
9.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

112 citing papers in PubMed, 219 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Sexual Dimorphism in Allergic and Mast Cell-Associated Diseases.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2026
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  6. Gut-skin axis: Emerging insights for gastroenterologists-a narrative review.World journal of gastrointestinal pathophysiology · 2025
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  12. Enforced gut homing of murine regulatory T cells reduces early graft-versus-host disease severity.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2023
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  14. Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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52 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.

Sabina A IslamCenter for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
Andrew D Luster
Harvard University · USMassachusetts General Hospital · US

Funding

Tetramer CoreU19AI095261 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI LUSTER, ANDREW D · 2011 to 2015
$10.8M
Chemokines and Th2 Cell Trafficking in AsthmaR37AI040618 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI LUSTER, ANDREW D · 2008 to 2017
$4.0M
Role of the BLTR1 receptor in lymphocyte traffickingK08AI055663 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI ISLAM, SABINA A · 2003 to 2007
$601k
NIAID NIH HHS K08 AI055663NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI040618NIAID NIH HHS R37AI040618NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI095261NIAID NIH HHS U19AI095261
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Allergic inflammation develops in tissues that have large epithelial surface areas that are exposed to the environment, such as the lung, skin and gut. In the steady state, antigen-experienced memory T cells patrol these peripheral tissues to facilitate swift immune responses against invading pathogens. In at least two allergy-prone organs, the skin and the gut, memory T cells are programmed during the initial antigen priming to express trafficking receptors that enable them to preferentially home to these organs. In this review we propose that tissue-specific memory and inflammation-specific T cell trafficking facilitates the development of allergic disease in these organs. We thus review recent advances in our understanding of tissue-specific T cell trafficking and how regulation of T cell trafficking by the chemokine system contributes to allergic inflammation in mouse models and in human allergic diseases of the skin, lung and gut. Inflammation- and tissue-specific T lymphocyte trafficking pathways are currently being targeted as new treatments for non-allergic inflammatory diseases and may yield effective new therapeutics for allergic diseases.

Indexed as

AllergensAnimalsAsthmaCell MovementChemokinesEpitheliumFood HypersensitivityHumansHypersensitivityImmunologic MemoryMiceTh2 CellsT-LymphocytesAllergensChemokines

Identifiers

PMID22561834
PMCPMC3863331
OpenAlexW2018779510

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