Evidence map›Paper›PMID 23217614›Full record

ReviewVirology2013

NK cells controlling virus-specific T cells: Rheostats for acute vs. persistent infections.

Raymond M Welsh, Stephen N Waggoner

Abstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Virology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
54citing papers in PubMed
4.0field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

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

54 citing papers in PubMed, 80 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Trial
  2. Article
  3. Review
  4. Review
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Review
  8. Article
  9. Inclusion criteria: how NK cells gain access to T cells.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2021
    Article
  10. Review
  11. Article
  12. Control of HCV Infection by Natural Killer Cells and Macrophages.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine · 2020
    Review
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Article
  17. Review
  18. Article
  19. Review
  20. Review
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 at 1 institution in 1 country.

Raymond M WelshDepartment of Pathology and Program for Immunology and Virology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA. Raymond.Welsh@umassmed.edu
Stephen N Waggoner
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School · US

Funding

Virology and Technology CoreP01AI046629 · NIAID · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI GREINER, DALE LESLIE · 1999 to 2014
$19.1M
TRAINING IN IMMUNOLOGY (COMPETITIVE RENEWAL OF AI07439)T32AI007349 · NIAID · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI STERN, LAWRENCE J. · 1989 to 2024
$4.5M
Immunity and Virus DiseaseR37AI017672 · NIAID · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI WELSH, RAYMOND M · 2004 to 2013
$4.0M
Virus induced immunopathologyR01AI081675 · NIAID · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI WELSH, RAYMOND M · 2009 to 2013
$2.0M
IMMUNITY AND VIRUS DISEASER01AI017672 · NIAID · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI WELSH, RAYMOND M · 1985 to 2003
$1.4M
REGULATION OF NATURAL KILLER CELLSR01CA034461 · NCI · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI WELSH, RAYMOND M · 1985 to 2005
$1.3M
NCI NIH HHS CA34461NCI NIH HHS R01 CA034461NIAID NIH HHS AI017672NIAID NIH HHS AI046629NIAID NIH HHS AI081675NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI046629NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI017672NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI081675NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI017672NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007349NIAID NIH HHS T32AI07349
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Viral infections characteristically induce a cytokine-driven activated natural killer (NK) cell response that precedes an antigen-driven T cell response. These NK cells can restrain some but not all viral infections by attacking virus-infected cells and can thereby provide time for an effective T cell response to mobilize. Recent studies have revealed an additional immunoregulatory role for the NK cells, where they inhibit the size and functionality of the T cell response, regardless of whether the viruses are themselves sensitive to NK cells. This subsequent change in T cell dynamics can alter patterns of immunopathology and persistence and implicates NK cells as rheostat-like regulators of persistent infections.

Indexed as

Acute DiseaseAnimalsChronic DiseaseHerpesviridae InfectionsHumansImmunity, HumoralImmunity, InnateImmunomodulationKiller Cells, NaturalLymphocytic ChoriomeningitisLymphocytic choriomeningitis virusMiceMuromegalovirusReceptors, Natural Killer CellT-LymphocytesReceptors, Natural Killer Cell

Identifiers

PMID23217614
PMCPMC3521501
OpenAlexW2056597276

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceTDM
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.