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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine2014

Autophagy in tuberculosis.

Vojo Deretic

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers.

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62citing papers in PubMed
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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

62 citing papers in PubMed, 102 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Molecular signaling in coinfection: howFrontiers in immunology · 2026
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  6. PIKfyve mediates the maturation of mycobacteria-containing vesicles.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026
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  8. Circulating MicroRNAs as diagnostic indicators in tuberculous Meningitis-A case -control study in North Indian population.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025
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  13. Frontiers in microbiology · 2025
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  14. Journal of clinical tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases · 2024
    Review
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2 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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Vojo DereticDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131.
University of New Mexico · US

Funding

Autophagy Against Tuberculosis and HIVR01AI111935 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIS CTR · PI DERETIC, VOJO P · 2014 to 2023
$7.0M
Pattern Recognition Receptors and Autophagy in Mtb Control in AIDSR01AI042999 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIS CTR · PI DERETIC, VOJO P · 1998 to 2017
$6.6M
NIAID NIH HHS AI042999NIAID NIH HHS AI111935NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI042999NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI111935
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Autophagy as an immune mechanism controls inflammation and acts as a cell-autonomous defense against intracellular microbes including Mycobacterium tuberculosis. An equally significant role of autophagy is its anti-inflammatory and tissue-sparing function. This combination of antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory actions prevents active disease in animal models. In human populations, genetic links between autophagy, inflammatory bowel disease, and susceptibility to tuberculosis provide further support to these combined roles of autophagy. The autophagic control of M. tuberculosis and prevention of progressive disease provide novel insights into physiological and immune control of tuberculosis. It also offers host-based therapeutic opportunities because autophagy can be pharmacologically modulated.

Indexed as

AutophagyHumansMycobacterium tuberculosisTuberculosis, Pulmonary

Identifiers

PMID25167980
PMCPMC4208715
OpenAlexW1974413768

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