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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2012

Leptin, CD4(+) T(reg) and the prospects for vaccination against H. pylori infection.

Anna K Walduck, Dorit Becher

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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 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Gastric Inflammation Impacts Serotonin Secretion in a Mouse Model ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
    Article
  2. A critical review onFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2025
    Review
  3. Obesity and leptin in breast cancer angiogenesis.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2024
    Review
  4. Review
  5. Pathogenicity of Helicobacter pylori in cancer development and impacts of vaccination.Gastric cancer : official journal of the International Gastric Cancer Association and the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association · 2019
    Review
  6. Review
  7. Tumour biology of obesity-related cancers: understanding the molecular concept for better diagnosis and treatment.Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine · 2016
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Anna K WalduckDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne Parkville, VIC, Australia.
Dorit Becher
University of Melbourne · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Helicobacter pylori infection induces chronic inflammation which is characterized not only by infiltrations of inflammatory cells such as neutrophils and CD4(+) T cells, but also significant populations of regulatory T cells (T(reg)). These cells are important for disease pathogenesis because they are believed to contribute to the persistence of the infection. Despite encouraging results in animal models, the prospects for an effective H. pylori vaccine are currently poor because of generally disappointing results in preclinical and phase 1 trials. As a result, a current major focus of basic research on vaccination is to better understand the mechanisms regulating the inflammatory response with the view it can inform future vaccine design. Our studies in this area have focused on gastric CD4(+) T(reg) in vaccinated mice, and raised the hypothesis that adipokines in particular leptin are involved the establishment of a protective gastric immune response. Here we discuss the hypothesis that vaccination deregulates T(reg) responses in the gastric mucosa, and that this process is mediated by leptin. We propose that reduced suppression permits a protective sub population of H. pylori-specific CD4(+) T cells to exert protective effects, presumably via the gastric epithelium. Evidence from the literature and experimental approaches will be discussed.

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Helicobacter pylorileptinregulatory T cellvaccine

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PMID23087691
PMCPMC3470998
OpenAlexW2112222829

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