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ReviewBiomolecules2015

Splicing Regulation of Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines and Chemokines: At the Interface of the Neuroendocrine and Immune Systems.

Felitsiya Shakola, Parul Suri, Matteo Ruggiu

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Review in Biomolecules, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 24% 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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  13. Hydrogen Gas in Cancer Treatment.Frontiers in oncology · 2019
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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Felitsiya ShakolaDepartment of Biological Sciences, St. John's University, 8000 Utopia Parkway Queens, Jamaica, NY 11439, USA. felitsiya6@yahoo.com.
Parul SuriDepartment of Biological Sciences, St. John's University, 8000 Utopia Parkway Queens, Jamaica, NY 11439, USA. parulsuri281291@gmail.com.
Matteo RuggiuDepartment of Biological Sciences, St. John's University, 8000 Utopia Parkway Queens, Jamaica, NY 11439, USA. ruggium@stjohns.edu.
St. John's University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alternative splicing plays a key role in posttranscriptional regulation of gene expression, allowing a single gene to encode multiple protein isoforms. As such, alternative splicing amplifies the coding capacity of the genome enormously, generates protein diversity, and alters protein function. More than 90% of human genes undergo alternative splicing, and alternative splicing is especially prevalent in the nervous and immune systems, tissues where cells need to react swiftly and adapt to changes in the environment through carefully regulated mechanisms of cell differentiation, migration, targeting, and activation. Given its prevalence and complexity, this highly regulated mode of gene expression is prone to be affected by disease. In the following review, we look at how alternative splicing of signaling molecules—cytokines and their receptors—changes in different pathological conditions, from chronic inflammation to neurologic disorders, providing means of functional interaction between the immune and neuroendocrine systems. Switches in alternative splicing patterns can be very dynamic and can produce signaling molecules with distinct or antagonistic functions and localization to different subcellular compartments. This newly discovered link expands our understanding of the biology of immune and neuroendocrine cells, and has the potential to open new windows of opportunity for treatment of neurodegenerative disorders.

Indexed as

Alternative SplicingAnimalsCytokinesHumansImmune SystemInflammationNeurodegenerative DiseasesNeuroprotectionNeurosecretory SystemsCytokinesalternative splicinginflammationinterleukin receptorneurodegenerationRNA-binding proteins

Identifiers

PMID26371053
PMCPMC4598789
OpenAlexW1961294915

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