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ReviewPLoS pathogens2012

The role of mast cells in the defence against pathogens.

Mirjam Urb, Donald C Sheppard

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In one paragraph

Review in PLoS pathogens, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 104 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
104citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

104 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
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  3. Exploring Genetic Factors Associated withAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025
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  4. Review
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  6. Innate Immunity and Synovitis: Key Players in Osteoarthritis Progression.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
    Review
  7. Antidepressant-like Effects ofPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
    Article
  8. Article
  9. Review
  10. Article
  11. Review
  12. Review
  13. Mast Cells in Aspirin-Exacerbated Respiratory Disease.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2024
    Review
  14. Article
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  18. Probiotics in Experimental Ulcerative Colitis: Mast Cell Density and Neuronal Hypertrophy.The Turkish journal of gastroenterology : the official journal of Turkish Society of Gastroenterology · 2022
    Article
  19. Article
  20. Article

44 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Mirjam UrbDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Donald C Sheppard

Funding

NIAID NIH HHS N01 AI030041
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AnimalsHost-Pathogen InteractionsHumansInfectionsLymphocytesMast Cells

Identifiers

PMID22577358
PMCPMC3343118

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Registered trials

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