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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2014

Regulatory T cells as immunotherapy.

Benjamin D Singer, Landon S King, Franco R D'Alessio

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 112 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
112citing papers in PubMed
10.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

112 citing papers in PubMed, 182 citations in OpenAlex.

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52 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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 at 1 institution in 1 country.

Benjamin D SingerDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore, MD , USA.
Landon S KingDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore, MD , USA.
Franco R D'AlessioDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore, MD , USA.
Johns Hopkins University · US

Funding

Resolution and repair of acute lung injury by macrophage-derived iNOSR00HL103973 · NHLBI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI D'ALESSIO, FRANCO RAFAEL · 2012 to 2014
$713k
Epigenetic Regulation of Acute Lung Injury ResolutionF32HL120400 · NHLBI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI SINGER, BENJAMIN DAVID · 2013 to 2014
$113k
NHLBI NIH HHS F32 HL120400NHLBI NIH HHS R00 HL103973
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Regulatory T cells (Tregs) suppress exuberant immune system activation and promote immunologic tolerance. Because Tregs modulate both innate and adaptive immunity, the biomedical community has developed an intense interest in using Tregs for immunotherapy. Conditions that require clinical tolerance to improve outcomes - autoimmune disease, solid organ transplantation, and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation - may benefit from Treg immunotherapy. Investigators have designed ex vivo strategies to isolate, preserve, expand, and infuse Tregs. Protocols to manipulate Treg populations in vivo have also been considered. Barriers to clinically feasible Treg immunotherapy include Treg stability, off-cell effects, and demonstration of cell preparation purity and potency. Clinical trials involving Treg adoptive transfer to treat graft versus host disease preliminarily demonstrated the safety and efficacy of Treg immunotherapy in humans. Future work will need to confirm the safety of Treg immunotherapy and establish the efficacy of specific Treg subsets for the treatment of immune-mediated disease.

Indexed as

adoptive transferexpansionimmunotherapeuticsinflammationregulatory T cellstolerance

Identifiers

PMID24575095
PMCPMC3920065
OpenAlexW2161981173

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