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ReviewNature reviews. Immunology2016

T follicular helper cells in space-time.

Hai Qi

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Review in Nature reviews. Immunology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 152 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
152citing papers in PubMed
16.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

152 citing papers in PubMed, 274 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hai QiLaboratory of Dynamic Immunobiology, Institute for Immunology, Department of Basic Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine, Tsinghua-Peking Center for Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Medical Science Building A107, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Tsinghua University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

T follicular helper (TFH) cells play a crucial part in the development of humoral immunity by controlling the formation of, and the cellular reactions that occur in, germinal centres. Within these organized lymphoid tissue microstructures, B cells proliferate and somatically mutate to produce long-lived, high-affinity plasma cells and memory B cells. TFH cells exhibit unique molecular, cellular and tissue-dynamic features that are integral to their development and function but that are not necessarily compatible with the classical paradigm of effector CD4(+) T cell differentiation. Here, I discuss recent advances in TFH cell biology and their implications for our understanding of T cell differentiation and memory in humoral immunity from spatiotemporal and functional perspectives.

Indexed as

AnimalsB-LymphocytesCell CommunicationCell DifferentiationClonal Selection, Antigen-MediatedGerminal CenterHumansImmunity, HumoralImmunological SynapsesImmunologic MemoryLymphocyte ActivationT-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer

Identifiers

PMID27573485
OpenAlexW2511881100

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