Evidence map›Paper›PMID 27088918›Full record

ReviewImmunological reviews2016

Peyer's patches: organizing B-cell responses at the intestinal frontier.

Andrea Reboldi, Jason G Cyster

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Review in Immunological reviews, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 170 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
170citing papers in PubMed
10.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

170 citing papers in PubMed, 306 citations in OpenAlex.

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110 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Andrea ReboldiHoward Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Jason G CysterHoward Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

Chemokines and Lymphoid Tissue Organization and FunctionR01AI045073 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI CYSTER, JASON G · 1999 to 2023
$7.6M
Chemokines and Lymphoid Tissue Organization and FunctionR37AI045073 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Jason G Cyster · 2024 to 2026
$1.7M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIAID NIH HHS AI045073NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI045073NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI045073
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Secondary lymphoid tissues share the important function of bringing together antigens and rare antigen-specific lymphocytes to foster induction of adaptive immune responses. Peyer's patches (PPs) are unique compared to other secondary lymphoid tissues in their continual exposure to an enormous diversity of microbiome- and food-derived antigens and in the types of pathogens they encounter. Antigens are delivered to PPs by specialized microfold (M) epithelial cells and they may be captured and presented by resident dendritic cells (DCs). In accord with their state of chronic microbial antigen exposure, PPs exhibit continual germinal center (GC) activity. These GCs not only contribute to the generation of B cells and plasma cells producing somatically mutated gut antigen-specific IgA antibodies but have also been suggested to support non-specific antigen diversification of the B-cell repertoire. Here, we review current understanding of how PPs foster B-cell encounters with antigen, how they favor isotype switching to the secretory IgA isotype, and how their GC responses may uniquely contribute to mucosal immunity.

Indexed as

Clonal Selection, Antigen-MediatedAnimalsAntigen PresentationB-LymphocytesDendritic CellsGerminal CenterHumansImmunoglobulin AIntestinal MucosaPeyer's PatchesImmunoglobulin AantibodiesB cellscell traffickingdendritic cellsmucosarepertoire development

Identifiers

PMID27088918
PMCPMC4835804
OpenAlexW2335996377

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