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ReviewDiscovery medicine2016

B cell-targeted immunotherapy for type 1 diabetes: What can make it work?

Abdel Rahim A Hamad, Rizwan Ahmed, Thomas Donner, Georgia Fousteri

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In one paragraph

Review in Discovery medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Epitope-based precision immunotherapy of Type 1 diabetes.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2023
    Article
  3. Prevention of Type 1 Diabetes in Children: A Worthy Challenge?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
    Review
  4. Review
  5. Identifying the 'Achilles heel' of type 1 diabetes.Clinical and experimental immunology · 2021
    Review
  6. Review
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  10. IL-17 and limits of success.Cellular immunology · 2019
    Review
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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

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Abdel Rahim A HamadDepartment of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Rizwan AhmedDepartment of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Thomas DonnerDepartment of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Georgia FousteriDiabetes Research Institute (DRI), IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
Johns Hopkins Medicine · USIstituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico San RaffaeleJohns Hopkins University · US

Funding

Mechanisms of Fas Ligand Control of Insulitis in Autoimmune DiabetesR01AI099027 · NIAID · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI HAMAD, ABDEL RAHIM · 2013 to 2017
$2.0M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI099027
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immunotherapy has revolutionized treatment of cancers and autoimmune diseases. Bucking the trend, however, is type 1 diabetes (T1D), although it is one of best understood autoimmune diseases and individuals at genetic risk are identifiable with high certainty. Here we review the major obstacles associated with pan-B-cell-depletion using rituximab (RTX) and discuss the notion that B cell-directed therapy may be most effective as a preventive measure. We suggest that it will be more productive to aim at identifying and targeting autoreactive B cells rather than making adjustments to pan-B cell depletion and that non-conventional alternative therapies such as antibody blockade of FasL to bolster IL-10-producing Breg cells, which work successfully in mice, should be considered.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntigens, CD20AutoimmunityB-LymphocytesClinical Trials as TopicDiabetes Mellitus, Type 1Drug Therapy, CombinationFas Ligand ProteinHumansImmunologic FactorsImmunotherapyInterleukin-10Islets of LangerhansIslets of Langerhans TransplantationMiceRituximabAntigens, CD20Fas Ligand ProteinImmunologic FactorsInterleukin-10Rituximab

Identifiers

PMID27115172
PMCPMC5266520
OpenAlexW2344280323

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.