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Trial reportMolecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.)2014

Leukocyte activity in patients with ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction treated with anakinra.

Chiara Sonnino, Sanah Christopher, Claudia Oddi, Stefano Toldo, Raquel Appa Falcao, Ryan D Melchior, George H Mueller, Nayef A Abouzaki, Amit Varma, Michael L Gambill and 3 more

Open access · goldAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 33% 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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Trial
  3. IL-1 Blockade to Resolve Persistent Inflammation After STEMI.JACC. Basic to translational science · 2026
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  4. Review
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  7. P2XJournal of cellular and molecular medicine · 2017
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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

13 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Chiara SonninoVirginia Commonwealth University, VCU Pauley Heart Center and Victoria Johnson Research Laboratories, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America.
Sanah ChristopherVirginia Commonwealth University, VCU Pauley Heart Center and Victoria Johnson Research Laboratories, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America.
Claudia OddiVirginia Commonwealth University, VCU Pauley Heart Center and Victoria Johnson Research Laboratories, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America.
Stefano ToldoVirginia Commonwealth University, VCU Pauley Heart Center and Victoria Johnson Research Laboratories, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America.
Raquel Appa FalcaoVirginia Commonwealth University, VCU Pauley Heart Center and Victoria Johnson Research Laboratories, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America.
Ryan D MelchiorVirginia Commonwealth University, VCU Pauley Heart Center and Victoria Johnson Research Laboratories, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America.
George H MuellerVirginia Commonwealth University, VCU Pauley Heart Center and Victoria Johnson Research Laboratories, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America.
Nayef A AbouzakiVirginia Commonwealth University, VCU Pauley Heart Center and Victoria Johnson Research Laboratories, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America.
Amit VarmaVirginia Commonwealth University, VCU Pauley Heart Center and Victoria Johnson Research Laboratories, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America.
Michael L GambillVirginia Commonwealth University, VCU Pauley Heart Center and Victoria Johnson Research Laboratories, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America.
Benjamin W Van TassellVirginia Commonwealth University, VCU Pauley Heart Center and Victoria Johnson Research Laboratories, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America.
Charles A DinarelloDepartment of Medicine, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America.
Antonio AbbateVirginia Commonwealth University, VCU Pauley Heart Center and Victoria Johnson Research Laboratories, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America.
Virginia Commonwealth University · USUniversity of Colorado Denver · US

Funding

Yeast-based HTS Assay Technologies for ProteasesR01AI015614 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI DINARELLO, CHARLES ANTHONY · 1985 to 2025
$8.5M
Center for Clinical and Translational ResearchKL2RR031989 · NCRR · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI CLORE, JOHN N. · 2010 to 2011
$995k
Pathogenesis of Fever in ManR56AI015614 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI DINARELLO, CHARLES ANTHONY · 2016 to 2016
$311k
NCRR NIH HHS KL2 RR031989NCRR NIH HHS KL2RR031989NIAID NIH HHS AI-15614NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI015614NIAID NIH HHS R56 AI015614
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Anakinra, the recombinant form of the human interleukin (IL)-1 receptor antagonist, blunts the acute systemic inflammatory response in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), by determining a fall in peripheral blood leukocyte and plasma C-reactive protein levels. The aim of the present study was to determine the effects of anakinra on the activity of leukocytes measured ex vivo. Blood was collected 72 h after admission in 17 patients enrolled in the Virginia Commonwealth University-Anakirna Remodeling Trial (2) (VCU-ART2) and randomly treated with anakinra (N=7) or placebo (N=10). Whole blood was cultured at 37°C for 24 h to measure spontaneous production of IL-6 or stimulated with Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS) for toll-like receptor (TLR)-4 or heat-killed Staphylococcus epidermidis (SE) for TLR-2 activation. The cultures of anakinra-treated patients produced significantly less IL-6 spontaneously (71 pg/mL [27-114]) compared with placebo-treated patients (290 pg/mL [211-617], p=0.005). LPS- or SE-induced IL-6 production, on the other hand, was not statistically different between anakinra-versus placebo-treated patients (344 pg/mL [94-560] versus 370 pg/mL [306-991], p=0.32 for LPS, and 484 pg/mL [77-612] versus 615 pg/mL [413-871], p=0.31 for SE, respectively). IL-1 blockade with anakinra in STEMI patients results in reduced spontaneous leukocyte activity ex vivo without impairing the responsiveness to bacterial stimuli.

Indexed as

AgedAnti-Inflammatory AgentsCells, CulturedFemaleGene Expression RegulationHumansInterleukin 1 Receptor Antagonist ProteinInterleukin-6LeukocytesLipopolysaccharidesMaleMiddle AgedStaphylococcus epidermidisSystemic Inflammatory Response SyndromeAnti-Inflammatory AgentsIL6 protein, humanInterleukin 1 Receptor Antagonist ProteinInterleukin-6Lipopolysaccharides

Identifiers

PMID25121719
PMCPMC4277550
OpenAlexW2401017704

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