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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine2012

The T-cell response to HIV.

Bruce Walker, Andrew McMichael

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 109 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
109citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

109 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  9. Protein-dependent CD4iScience · 2026
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  13. A binary trait model reveals the fitness effects of HIV-1 escape from T cell responses.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  14. Natural Resistance to HIV Infection: Role of Immune Activation.Immunity, inflammation and disease · 2025
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49 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.

Bruce WalkerRagon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard Mass General Hospital-East, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, USA. bwalker@partners.org
Andrew McMichael

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

HIV is a disease in which the original clinical observations of severe opportunistic infections gave the first clues regarding the underlying pathology, namely that HIV is essentially an infection of the immune system. HIV infects and deletes CD4(+) T cells that normally coordinate the adaptive T- and B-cell response to defend against intracellular pathogens. The immune defect is immediate and profound: At the time of acute infection with an AIDS virus, typically more than half of the gut-associated CD4(+) T cells are depleted, leaving a damaged immune system to contend with a life-long infection.

Indexed as

Adaptive ImmunityCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesHIV InfectionsHumansImmune EvasionT-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic

Identifiers

PMID23002014
PMCPMC3543107

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