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ReviewClinical & developmental immunology2013

Homeostatic T cell proliferation after islet transplantation.

Paolo Monti, Lorenzo Piemonti

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Review in Clinical & developmental immunology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 15% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Review
  3. Pharmacological Targeting of GLUT1 to Control Autoreactive T Cell Responses.International journal of molecular sciences · 2019
    Review
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Islet cell transplant and the incorporation of Tregs.Current opinion in organ transplantation · 2014
    Review
  7. Article
  8. 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.

Paolo MontiSan Raffaele Diabetes Research Institute, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Via Olgettina 60, 20132 Milan, Italy. paolo.monti@hsr.it
Lorenzo Piemonti
San Raffaele University of Rome · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pancreatic islet transplantation in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus is performed under immunosuppression to avoid alloreactive T cell responses and to control the reactivation of autoreactive memory T cells. However, lymphopenia associated with immunosuppression and T cell depletion can induce a paradoxical expansion of lymphocyte subsets under the influence of homeostatic proliferation. Homeostatic T cell proliferation is mainly driven by the IL-7/IL-7 receptor axis, a molecular pathway which is not affected by standard immune-suppressive drugs and, consequently, represents a novel potential target for immuno-modulatory strategies. In this review, we will discuss how homeostatic T cell proliferation can support autoimmunity recurrence after islet transplantation and how it can be targeted by new therapeutic approaches.

Indexed as

HomeostasisLymphocyte ActivationAutoimmunityDiabetes Mellitus, Type 1HumansImmunologic MemoryImmunosuppression TherapyInterleukin-7Islets of Langerhans TransplantationRecurrenceT-Lymphocyte SubsetsInterleukin-7

Identifiers

PMID23970924
PMCPMC3736509
OpenAlexW2165868396

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