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ReviewChimerism

Chimerism in transfusion medicine: the grandmother effect revisited.

Patricia A R Brunker

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Review in Chimerism. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 25% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Responder individuality in red blood cell alloimmunization.Transfusion medicine and hemotherapy : offizielles Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhamatologie · 2014
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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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Patricia A R BrunkerDepartment of Pathology; The Johns Hopkins Hospital; Baltimore, MD USA.
Johns Hopkins Hospital · US

Funding

Clinical Hematology Research Development Program (K12) at Johns HopkinsK12HL087169 · NHLBI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI CASELLA, JAMES F · 2006 to 2016
$3.7M
NHLBI NIH HHS 2 K12 HL087169-06NHLBI NIH HHS K12 HL087169
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transfusion therapy is complicated by the production of alloantibodies to antigens present in the donor and lacking in the recipient through the poorly-understood but likely multi-factorial process of alloimmunization. The low prevalence of alloimmunization in transfused patients (6.1%) (1) suggests that processes central to immunologic tolerance may be operating in the vast majority of transfused patients who do not produce alloantibodies. Using RhD as a prototype, evidence is reviewed that the ability to make antibodies to red blood cell (RBC) antigens may result in part from immunologic tolerance acquired in utero. These ideas are extended to other examples of maternal microchimerism (MMc) of other non-inherited maternal antigens (NIMA). An evolutionary argument is offered that multi-generational immunity supports the hypothesis that MMc may partly explain the "non-responder" phenotype in RBC alloimmunization.

Indexed as

Transfusion ReactionBlood Group IncompatibilityChimerismErythrocytesFemaleHumansIsoantibodiesPregnancyRh-Hr Blood-Group SystemTransfusion MedicineIsoantibodiesRh-Hr Blood-Group SystemRho(D) antigenalloimmunizationpregnancyRhtolerancetransfusion

Identifiers

PMID24196285
PMCPMC3921192
OpenAlexW1969448790

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Registered trials

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