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ReviewMediators of inflammation2014

Toll-like receptor 2 as a regulator of oral tolerance in the gastrointestinal tract.

Matthew C Tunis, Jean S Marshall

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Review in Mediators of inflammation, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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15citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Association of early life anti-pathogen immune responses with infant food sensitisation and allergy: An elastic-net stability-selection approach.Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology · 2026
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  14. Toll-like receptor 2 activators modulate oral tolerance in mice.Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Matthew C TunisDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, 5850 College Street, Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 1X5 ; Dalhousie Inflammation Group, Dalhousie University, 5850 College Street, Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 1X5.
Jean S MarshallDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, 5850 College Street, Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 1X5 ; Dalhousie Inflammation Group, Dalhousie University, 5850 College Street, Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 1X5.
Dalhousie University · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Food allergy, other adverse immune responses to foods, inflammatory bowel disease, and eosinophilic esophagitis have become increasingly common in the last 30 years. It has been proposed in the "hygiene hypothesis" that dysregulated immune responses to environmental microbial stimuli may modify the balance between tolerance and sensitization in some patients. Of the pattern recognition receptors that respond to microbial signals, toll-like receptors (TLRs) represent the most investigated group. The relationship between allergy and TLR activation is currently at the frontier of immunology research. Although TLR2 is abundant in the mucosal environment, little is known about the complex relationship between bystander TLR2 activation by the commensal microflora and the processing of oral antigens. This review focuses on recent advances in our understanding of the relationship between TLR2 and oral tolerance, with an emphasis on regulatory T cells, eosinophils, B cells, IgA, intestinal regulation, and commensal microbes.

Indexed as

Enteric Nervous SystemGastrointestinal TractHumansImmunoglobulin AT-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryToll-Like Receptor 2Immunoglobulin AToll-Like Receptor 2

Identifiers

PMID25309051
PMCPMC4182894
OpenAlexW2144866932

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