Evidence map›Paper›PMID 23720323›Full record

ReviewComprehensive Physiology2013

Liver immunology.

Dimitrios P Bogdanos, Bin Gao, M Eric Gershwin

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Review in Comprehensive Physiology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 116 papers.

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116citing 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

116 citing papers in PubMed.

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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.

Dimitrios P BogdanosInstitute of Liver Studies, Transplantation Immunology and Mucosal Biology, King's College London School of Medicine at King's College Hospital, London, UK.
Bin Gao
M Eric Gershwin

Funding

Pathogenesis and Novel Therapeutic Targets of Steatotic Liver Disease and CancerZIAAA000369 · NIAAA · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM · PI GAO, BIN · 2009 to 2025
$23.4M
Molecular mechanisms of liver injury, repair, and immunityZIAAA000368 · NIAAA · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM · PI GAO, BIN · 2009 to 2023
$16.1M
MECHANISMS AND PATHOGENESIS OF PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSISR37DK039588 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS · PI GERSHWIN, MERRILL E · 2001 to 2010
$3.5M
MECHANISMS AND PATHOGENESIS OF PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSISR01DK039588 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS · PI GERSHWIN, MERRILL E · 1988 to 2015
$2.0M
Intramural NIH HHS Z99 AA999999Intramural NIH HHS ZIA AA000368Intramural NIH HHS ZIA AA000369NIDDK NIH HHS DK39588NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK039588
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The liver is the largest organ in the body and is generally regarded by nonimmunologists as having little or no lymphoid function. However, such is far from accurate. This review highlights the importance of the liver as a lymphoid organ. Firstly, we discuss experimental data surrounding the role of liver as a lymphoid organ. The liver facilitates tolerance rather than immunoreactivity, which protects the host from antigenic overload of dietary components and drugs derived from the gut and it is instrumental to fetal immune tolerance. Loss of liver tolerance leads to autoaggressive phenomena, which if not controlled by regulatory lymphoid populations, may lead to the induction of autoimmune liver diseases. Liver-related lymphoid subpopulations also act as critical antigen-presenting cells. The study of the immunological properties of liver and delineation of the microenvironment of the intrahepatic milieu in normal and diseased livers provides a platform to understand the hierarchy of a series of detrimental events that lead to immune-mediated destruction of the liver and the rejection of liver allografts. The majority of emphasis within this review will be on the normal mononuclear cell composition of the liver. However, within this context, we will discuss selected, but not all, immune-mediated liver disease and attempt to place these data in the context of human autoimmunity.

Indexed as

Immune ToleranceAnimalsAntigen-Presenting CellsHumansImmunity, HumoralLiverLiver Diseases

Identifiers

PMID23720323
PMCPMC4201126

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