Evidence map›Paper›PMID 23304192›Full record

ReviewClinical & developmental immunology2012

Natural Immunity to HIV: a delicate balance between strength and control.

Johanne Poudrier, Valérie Thibodeau, Michel Roger

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Review in Clinical & developmental immunology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
17citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 32% 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

17 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Johanne PoudrierLaboratoire d'Immunogénétique, Centre de Recherche, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM) et Département de Microbiologie et Immunologie, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada H2L 4M1.
Valérie Thibodeau
Michel Roger
Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal · CA

Funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research MOP-119406
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding how the mucosal immune system in the human female reproductive tract might prevent or facilitate HIV infection has important implications for the design of effective interventions. We and others have established cohorts of highly-exposed, HIV-seronegative individuals, such as HIV-uninfected commercial sex workers, who have remained HIV-negative after more than 5 years of active prostitution. Observations obtained in studies of such individuals, who represent a model of natural immunity to HIV, indicate that HIV resistance may be associated with the host's capacity to preserve systemic integrity by constraining immune activity and controlling inflammatory conditions at the mucosal point of entry. This likely necessitates the orchestration of balanced, first-line and adaptive immune responses.

Indexed as

Sex WorkersAnimalsFemaleGenitalia, FemaleHIVHIV InfectionsHumansImmunity, Innate

Identifiers

PMID23304192
PMCPMC3529906
OpenAlexW1967181446

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