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ReviewCurrent allergy and asthma reports2016

Eosinophil ETosis and DNA Traps: a New Look at Eosinophilic Inflammation.

Shigeharu Ueki, Takahiro Tokunaga, Shigeharu Fujieda, Kohei Honda, Makoto Hirokawa, Lisa A Spencer, Peter F Weller

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Review in Current allergy and asthma reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers.

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57citing papers in PubMed
5.4field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

57 citing papers in PubMed, 119 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Programmed Cell Death in Chronic Rhinosinusitis.Clinical and translational allergy · 2026
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  6. Mucus Plugs and Eosinophilic Inflammation: Expanding the Paradigm to COPD.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice · 2026
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  15. Eosinophil extracellular traps in respiratory ailment: Pathogenic mechanisms and clinical translation.World journal of otorhinolaryngology - head and neck surgery · 2024
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  20. ATP functions as a primary alarmin in allergen-induced type 2 immunity.American journal of physiology. Cell physiology · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Shigeharu UekiDepartment of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1-1, Hondo, Akita, 010-8543, Japan. ueki-shige@nifty.com.
Takahiro TokunagaDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan.
Shigeharu FujiedaDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan.
Kohei HondaDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Akita Graduate School of Medicine, Akita, Japan.
Makoto HirokawaDepartment of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1-1, Hondo, Akita, 010-8543, Japan.
Lisa A SpencerDivisions of Allergy and Inflammation and Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Peter F WellerDivisions of Allergy and Inflammation and Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Akita University · JPUniversity of Fukui · JPBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · USHarvard University · US

Funding

Human Eosinophils: Mechanisms of FunctioningR37AI020241 · NIAID · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI WELLER, PETER F · 2010 to 2019
$4.5M
Airways Eosinophils as Antigen-presenting Cells in AsthmaR01AI051645 · NIAID · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI WELLER, PETER F · 2001 to 2011
$3.8M
Notch signaling-mediated functions of airway eosinophils in lung diseaseR01HL095699 · NHLBI · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI SPENCER, LISA ANN · 2010 to 2014
$2.1M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL095699NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI051645NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI020241
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The traditional paradigm of eosinophils as end-stage damaging cells has mainly relied on their release of cytotoxic proteins. Cytokine-induced cell survival and secretion of granular contents from tissue-dwelling eosinophil are thought to be important mechanisms for eosinophilic inflammatory disorders, although the occurrence of cytolysis and its products (i.e., free extracellular granules) has been observed in affected lesions. Recent evidence indicates that activated eosinophils can exhibit a non-apoptotic cell death pathway, namely extracellular trap cell death (ETosis) that mediates the eosinophil cytolytic degranulation. Here, we discuss the current concept of eosinophil ETosis which provides a new look at eosinophilic inflammation. Lessons from eosinophilic chronic rhinosinusitis revealed that ETosis-derived DNA traps, composed of stable web-like chromatin, contribute to the properties of highly viscous eosinophilic mucin and impairments in its clearance. Intact granules entrapped in DNA traps are causing long-lasting inflammation but also might have immunoregulatory roles. Eosinophils possess a way to have post-postmortem impacts on innate immunity, local immune response, sterile inflammation, and tissue damage.

Indexed as

EosinophilsExtracellular TrapsHumansInflammationCytolysisDNA trapsEosinophilic chronic rhinosinusitisEosinophilsETosisNeutrophils

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PMID27393701
PMCPMC5313036
OpenAlexW2473827554

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