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ArticleThe American journal of pathology2016

Regulatory T Cells in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Too Much of a Good Thing?

Meagan W Moore, Erica L Herzog

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Article in The American journal of pathology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 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

18 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The transcriptome of CD14The European respiratory journal · 2026
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  2. [Pathophysiology of fibrosis: inflammatory vs. non-inflammatory].Innere Medizin (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025
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  3. Air pollution and alveolar health.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2025
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  5. Single-Cell Profiling Reveals Immune Aberrations in Progressive Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2024
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  10. Tissue Resident Foxp3Frontiers in immunology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Meagan W MooreDepartment of Internal Medicine, Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
Erica L HerzogDepartment of Internal Medicine, Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut. Electronic address: erica.herzog@yale.edu.

Funding

Chromosomal microdeletions causing heart defectsR01HL092330 · NHLBI · CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RES CTR AT OAKLAND · PI KING, JANET C · 2009 to 2014
$3.6M
Neuroimmune Molecules in Scleroderma Lung FibrosisR01HL125850 · NHLBI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI HERZOG, ERICA L · 2016 to 2019
$1.7M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL092330NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL125850
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This commentary highlights the article by Birjandi et al showing that alterations in regulatory T cells can exacerbate lung fibrosis.

Indexed as

Idiopathic Pulmonary FibrosisT-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryHumansPulmonary Fibrosis

Identifiers

PMID27344432
PMCPMC4973652

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