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ReviewJournal of leukocyte biology2016

Endotoxemia-menace, marker, or mistake?

Robert S Munford

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Review in Journal of leukocyte biology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 119 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
119citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
9.3field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

119 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 199 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Dextran sulfate restores endotoxin detectability in human serum.Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry · 2026
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  9. Assessing gut barrier integrity in ruminants: structural, functional, and immunological approaches.Animal frontiers : the review magazine of animal agriculture · 2026
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59 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Robert S MunfordLaboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD, USA munfordrs@niaid.nih.gov.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · US

Funding

Endotoxin DetoxificationZIAAI001139 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI MUNFORD, ROBERT · 2011 to 2022
$8.2M
Antibacterial Host DefenseZIAAI001138 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI MUNFORD, ROBERT · 2011 to 2021
$4.4M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Endotoxemia is in its scientific ascendancy. Never has blood-borne, Gram-negative bacterial endotoxin (LPS) been invoked in the pathogenesis of so many diseases-not only as a trigger for septic shock, once its most cited role, but also as a contributor to atherosclerosis, obesity, chronic fatigue, metabolic syndrome, and many other conditions. Finding elevated plasma endotoxin levels has been essential supporting evidence for each of these links, yet the assays used to detect and quantitate endotoxin have important limitations. This article describes several assays for endotoxin in plasma, reviews what they do and do not measure, and discusses why LPS heterogeneity, LPS trafficking pathways, and host LPS inactivation mechanisms should be considered when interpreting endotoxin assay results.

Indexed as

EndotoxemiaBiological TransportCarboxylic Ester HydrolasesEnzyme-Linked Immunosorbent AssayGram-Negative BacteriaGram-Negative Bacterial InfectionsHumansIntestinal AbsorptionLimulus TestLipid ALipopolysaccharidesLymphNeutralization TestsO AntigensStructure-Activity Relationshipacyloxyacyl hydrolaseCarboxylic Ester HydrolasesLipid ALipopolysaccharidesO AntigensendotoxinLimuluslipopolysaccharideLPStranslocation

Identifiers

PMID27418356
PMCPMC5014740
OpenAlexW2462845880

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Registered trials

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