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ReviewCytokine2015

Non-traditional cytokines: How catecholamines and adipokines influence macrophages in immunity, metabolism and the central nervous system.

Mark A Barnes, Monica J Carson, Meera G Nair

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In one paragraph

Review in Cytokine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
51citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
7.6field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

51 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 110 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mark A BarnesDivision of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States.
Monica J CarsonDivision of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States.
Meera G NairDivision of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States. Electronic address: meera.nair@ucr.edu.
University of California, Riverside · US

Funding

RELM-alpha regulation of hookworm-induced lung inflammationR01AI091759 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI NAIR, MEERA GOH · 2011 to 2015
$2.0M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI091759
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Catecholamines and adipokines function as hormones; catecholamines as neurotransmitters in the sympathetic nervous system, and adipokines as mediators of metabolic processes. It has become increasingly clear, however, that both also function as immunomodulators of innate and adaptive immune cells, including macrophages. Macrophages can respond to, as well as produce their own catecholamines. Dopamine, noradrenaline, and adrenaline are the most abundant catecholamines in the body, and can induce both pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory immune responses in macrophages, as well as non-immune processes such as thermogenesis. Though they are responsive to adipokines, particularly lipoproteins, leptin, and adiponectin, macrophages generally do not synthesize their own adipokines, with the exception being resistin-like molecules. Adipokines contribute to adverse metabolic and immune responses by stimulating lipid accumulation, foam cell formation and pro-inflammatory cytokine production in macrophages. Adipokines can also promote balance or resolution during metabolic and immune processes by promoting reverse lipid transport and expression of Th2 cytokines. This review will explore the mechanisms by which catecholamines and adipokines influence macrophage function in neural pathways, immunity and metabolism.

Indexed as

AdipokinesAnimalsBiological TransportCatecholaminesCentral Nervous SystemCytokinesHormonesHumansLipoproteinsMacrophagesNeural PathwaysResistinThermogenesisAdipokinesCatecholaminesCytokinesHormonesLipoproteinsResistinAdipokineAtherosclerosisDopamineMacrophageResistin-like molecules

Identifiers

PMID25703786
PMCPMC4590987
OpenAlexW2156236394

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