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ReviewNature2012

Reciprocal interactions of the intestinal microbiota and immune system.

Craig L Maynard, Charles O Elson, Robin D Hatton, Casey T Weaver

2 registry-linked trialsAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Nature, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 786 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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786citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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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.

NCT02223468 completednot on this mapstarted 2016, after this paper: background citation

Prospective Study To Characterize The Human Microbiota In Liver Transplantation And Its Impact On Early Outcome

TypeobservationalSponsorHospital Vall d'HebronRan2016 to 2021Enrolled40ConditionsIntestinal Microbiota, Complication of Transplanted Liver, Acute Rejection of Liver Transplant, Infection
NCT03279224 phase2 / phase3unknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2018, after this paper: background citation

A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Safety and Efficacy of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in a Population With Bipolar Disorder

TypeinterventionalSponsorValerie TaylorRan2018 to 2022Enrolled35ConditionsBipolar DepressionArmsAllogenic FMT, Autologous FMT
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

786 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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726 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

4 authors.

Craig L MaynardDepartment of Pathology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Charles O Elson
Robin D Hatton
Casey T Weaver

Funding

IMMUNOLOGIC DISEASES AND BASIC IMMUNOLOGYT32AI007051 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI Laurie Ellen Harrington · 1985 to 2026
$13.1M
INNATE AND ADAPTIVE MICROBIAL IMMUNITY IN IBDP01DK071176 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI ELSON, CHARLES O · 2005 to 2014
$12.5M
Mucosal HIV and Immunobiology CenterR24DK064400 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI SMITH, PHILLIP D · 2003 to 2012
$4.8M
Immune Regulation to Intestinal Bacterial AntigensR01AI057956 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI WEAVER, CASEY T · 2004 to 2008
$1.8M
Factors Controlling Effector T Cell Maintenance in the Pathogenesis of ColitisR01DK093015 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI WEAVER, CASEY T · 2011 to 2015
$1.6M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI057956NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007051NIDDK NIH HHS P01 DK071176NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK093015NIDDK NIH HHS R24 DK064400
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The emergence of the adaptive immune system in vertebrates set the stage for evolution of an advanced symbiotic relationship with the intestinal microbiota. The defining features of specificity and memory that characterize adaptive immunity have afforded vertebrates the mechanisms for efficiently tailoring immune responses to diverse types of microbes, whether to promote mutualism or host defence. These same attributes can put the host at risk of immune-mediated diseases that are increasingly linked to the intestinal microbiota. Understanding how the adaptive immune system copes with the remarkable number and diversity of microbes that colonize the digestive tract, and how the system integrates with more primitive innate immune mechanisms to maintain immune homeostasis, holds considerable promise for new approaches to modulate immune networks to treat and prevent disease.

Indexed as

Blood Group AntigensCesarean SectionEpitheliumFemaleHomeostasisHumansInfantInfant, NewbornIntestinesMetagenomePregnancyT-LymphocytesVaginaBlood Group Antigens

Identifiers

PMID22972296
PMCPMC4492337

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