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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2015

Development and Function of Protective and Pathologic Memory CD4 T Cells.

Shafqat Ahrar Jaigirdar, Megan K L MacLeod

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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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

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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

28 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Effects of multiple-dose ponesimod, a selective S1PDrug design, development and therapy · 2017
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  2. Transcriptional landscape of CD4+ T cells in Systemic Sclerosis.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  17. Ovariectomy Activates Chronic Low-Grade Inflammation Mediated by Memory T Cells, Which Promotes Osteoporosis in Mice.Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research · 2020
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  19. Resilience of T cell-intrinsic dysfunction in transplantation tolerance.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Shafqat Ahrar JaigirdarCentre for Immunobiology, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow , Glasgow , UK.
Megan K L MacLeodCentre for Immunobiology, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow , Glasgow , UK.

Funding

Versus Arthritis 19905Versus Arthritis 20339
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immunological memory is one of the defining features of the adaptive immune system. As key orchestrators and mediators of immunity, CD4 T cells are central to the vast majority of adaptive immune responses. Generated following an immune response, memory CD4 T cells retain pertinent information about their activation environment enabling them to make rapid effector responses upon reactivation. These responses can either benefit the host by hastening the control of pathogens or cause damaging immunopathology. Here, we will discuss the diversity of the memory CD4 T cell pool, the signals that influence the transition of activated T cells into that pool, and highlight how activation requirements differ between naïve and memory CD4 T cells. A greater understanding of these factors has the potential to aid the design of more effective vaccines and to improve regulation of pathologic CD4 T cells, such as in the context of autoimmunity and allergy.

Indexed as

autoimmunityCD4 T cellcytokinedifferentiationepigeneticinfectionmemoryvaccine

Identifiers

PMID26441961
PMCPMC4561815

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