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ReviewWorld journal of gastrointestinal pathophysiology2014

Role of Toll-like receptors in Helicobacter pylori infection and immunity.

Sinéad M Smith

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Review in World journal of gastrointestinal pathophysiology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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57citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
7.0field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

57 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 107 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. TLR2 variants andUpsala journal of medical sciences · 2025
    Pooled it
  2. Prevalence ofWorld journal of gastroenterology · 2024
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  6. KaiWei JianPI Ointment Downregulates Fcgbp and Modulates HMGB1/TLR4 Signaling to Combat Ferroptosis inThe Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale · 2026
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  7. BeyondMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025
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  9. Autoimmune Gastritis andInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  11. Selected Markers of Inflammation in the Saliva of Children Infected withInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  12. The role ofHeliyon · 2024
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  14. Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2024
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  15. Frontiers in immunology · 2024
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  16. The immunopathogenesis ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2024
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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.

Sinéad M SmithSinéad M Smith, Department of Clinical Medicine, Trinity Centre, Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Dublin 24, Ireland.
Tallaght University Hospital · IE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The gram-negative bacterium Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infects the stomachs of approximately half of the world's population. Although infection induces an immune response that contributes to chronic gastric inflammation, the response is not sufficient to eliminate the bacterium. H. pylori infection causes peptic ulcers, gastric cancer and mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma. Disease outcome is linked to the severity of the host inflammatory response. Gastric epithelial cells represent the first line of innate immune defence against H. pylori, and respond to infection by initiating numerous cell signalling cascades, resulting in cytokine induction and the subsequent recruitment of inflammatory cells to the gastric mucosa. Pathogen recognition receptors of the Toll-like receptor (TLR) family mediate many of these cell signalling events. This review discusses recent findings on the role of various TLRs in the recognition of H. pylori in distinct cell types, describes the TLRs responsible for the recognition of individual H. pylori components and outlines the influence of innate immune activation on the subsequent development of the adaptive immune response. The mechanistic identification of host mediators of H. pylori-induced pathogenesis has the potential to reveal drug targets and opportunities for therapeutic intervention or prevention of H. pylori-associated disease by means of vaccines or immunomodulatory therapy.

Indexed as

CytokineDendritic cellGastric epitheliumHelicobacter pyloriLipopolysaccharideMacrophageMonocyteToll-like receptor

Identifiers

PMID25133016
PMCPMC4133513
OpenAlexW1783081409

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