Evidence map›Paper›PMID 23643444›Full record

ReviewTrends in immunology2013

Effector and memory T cell responses to commensal bacteria.

Yasmine Belkaid, Nicolas Bouladoux, Timothy W Hand

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Review in Trends in immunology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers.

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46citing papers in PubMed
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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

46 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Conserved CD4Nature microbiology · 2026
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  4. Beyond the skin barrier: commensalbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  7. Microbiota as the unifying factor behind the hallmarks of cancer.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2023
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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.

Yasmine BelkaidMucosal Immunology Section, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, NIH, Bethesda 20892, USA. ybelkaid@niaid.nih.gov
Nicolas Bouladoux
Timothy W Hand

Funding

Role of the microbiota in immunityZIAAI001115 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI BELKAID, YASMINE · 2009 to 2025
$22.4M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA AI001115
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Barrier surfaces are home to a vast population of commensal organisms that together encode millions of proteins; each of them possessing several potential foreign antigens. Regulation of immune responses to this enormous antigenic load represents a tremendous challenge for the immune system. Tissues exposed to commensals have developed elaborate systems of regulation including specialized populations of resident lymphocytes that maintain barrier function and limit potential responses to commensal antigens. However, in settings of infection and inflammation these regulatory mechanisms are compromised and specific effector responses against commensal bacteria can develop. This review discusses the circumstances controlling the fate of commensal specific T cells and how dysregulation of these responses could lead to severe pathological outcomes.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntigens, BacterialBacteriaHumansImmune ToleranceImmunity, MucosalImmunologic MemoryInfectionsIntestinesMicrobiotaSymbiosisT-LymphocytesAntigens, Bacterial

Identifiers

PMID23643444
PMCPMC3733441

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