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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2012

The Role of TLR2 in Infection and Immunity.

Laura Oliveira-Nascimento, Paola Massari, Lee M Wetzler

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Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 486 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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486citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
8.7field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

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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

486 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 780 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Laura Oliveira-NascimentoSection of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine Boston, MA, USA.
Paola Massari
Lee M Wetzler
Boston University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are recognition molecules for multiple pathogens, including bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites. TLR2 forms heterodimers with TLR1 and TLR6, which is the initial step in a cascade of events leading to significant innate immune responses, development of adaptive immunity to pathogens and protection from immune sequelae related to infection with these pathogens. This review will discuss the current status of TLR2 mediated immune responses by recognition of pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPS) on these organisms. We will emphasize both canonical and non-canonical responses to TLR2 ligands with emphasis on whether the inflammation induced by these responses contributes to the disease state or to protection from diseases.

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co-receptorspolymorphismsTLR1TLR2TLR2 ligandsTLR6

Identifiers

PMID22566960
PMCPMC3342043
OpenAlexW1975915404

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