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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2013

Analytical tools for the study of cellular glycosylation in the immune system.

Yvette van Kooyk, Hakan Kalay, Juan J Garcia-Vallejo

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Role of Antibody Glycosylation in Health, Disease, and Therapy.Handbook of experimental pharmacology · 2025
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  9. Sweet Rules: Linking Glycosylation to Antibody Function.Experientia supplementum (2012) · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yvette van KooykDepartment of Molecular Cell Biology and Immunology, VU University Medical Center , Amsterdam , Netherlands.
Hakan KalayDepartment of Molecular Cell Biology and Immunology, VU University Medical Center , Amsterdam , Netherlands.
Juan J Garcia-VallejoDepartment of Molecular Cell Biology and Immunology, VU University Medical Center , Amsterdam , Netherlands.
Amsterdam UMC Location VUmc · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is becoming increasingly clear that glycosylation plays important role in intercellular communication within the immune system. Glycosylation-dependent interactions are crucial for the innate and adaptive immune system and regulate immune cell trafficking, synapse formation, activation, and survival. These functions take place by the cis or trans interaction of lectins with glycans. Classical immunological and biochemical methods have been used for the study of lectin function; however, the investigation of their counterparts, glycans, requires very specialized methodologies that have been extensively developed in the past decade within the Glycobiology scientific community. This mini-review intends to summarize the available technology for the study of glycan biosynthesis, its regulation and characterization for their application to the study of glycans in immunology.

Indexed as

glycan analysisglycansglycosyltransferasesimmune cellslectins

Identifiers

PMID24376449
PMCPMC3858669
OpenAlexW1992190181

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