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ArticleFibrogenesis & tissue repair2012

Molecular targets for therapy in systemic sclerosis.

Naoki Iwamoto, Oliver Distler

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Article in Fibrogenesis & tissue repair, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
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.

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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. The Prostacyclin Analogue Iloprost Modulates CXCL10 in Systemic Sclerosis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
    Article
  3. Pathological Insight into 5-HTInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2020
    Review
  4. Effect of dermatan sulphate on a C57-mouse model of pulmonary fibrosis.The Journal of international medical research · 2019
    Article
  5. Platelets in Skin Autoimmune Diseases.Frontiers in immunology · 2019
    Review
  6. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Naoki IwamotoDepartment of Rheumatology, Center of Experimental Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, Gloriastrasse 25, 8091 Zürich, Switzerland.
Oliver DistlerDepartment of Rheumatology, Center of Experimental Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, Gloriastrasse 25, 8091 Zürich, Switzerland.
University Hospital of Zurich · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite significant advances have been made in the recent years regarding organ-specific therapies, there is no approved 'disease-modifying' antifibrotic drug for systemic sclerosis (SSc) available to date. Although non-selective immunosuppressive agents are routinely used to treat patients with SSc, large well-controlled studies are lacking for almost all immunosuppressive agents and further evidence is required for long-term beneficial effects of these drugs. Considering these facts about immunosuppressive agents in SSc and also considering the high mortality of SSc, other therapeutic strategies are urgently needed. Recently an important role of the 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT: serotonin) pathway in fibrosis was reported. In this review, we discuss the role of 5-HT in fibrosis and therapeutic potential of this molecule. Besides 5-HT, there are a number of promising targets that have been extensively characterized in recent years. For many of these molecular targets, modifiers are readily available for clinical studies, and often these modifiers are used already in clinical use for other diseases. Results from these studies will show, in how far the promising preclinical results for novel antifibrotic strategies can be translated to clinical practice.

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PMID23259845
PMCPMC3368787
OpenAlexW2133329901

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