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ArticleThe Journal of international medical research2016

How the immune system responds to therapeutic biological agents.

Alessandra Vultaggio, Giulia Petroni, Sara Pratesi, Francesca Nencini, Daniele Cammelli, Andrea Ferraro, Enrico Maggi, Andrea Matucci

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Article in The Journal of international medical research, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 16% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 15 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

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alessandra VultaggioCentre of Excellence Denothe and Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Giulia PetroniDepartment of Biomedicine, Immunoallergology Section, AOU Careggi, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Sara PratesiDepartment of Biomedicine, Immunoallergology Section, AOU Careggi, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Francesca NenciniDepartment of Biomedicine, Immunoallergology Section, AOU Careggi, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Daniele CammelliDepartment of Biomedicine, Immunoallergology Section, AOU Careggi, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Andrea FerraroCentre of Excellence Denothe and Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Enrico MaggiDepartment of Biomedicine, Immunoallergology Section, AOU Careggi, University of Florence, Florence, Italy enrico.maggi@unifi.it.
Andrea MatucciDepartment of Biomedicine, Immunoallergology Section, AOU Careggi, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
University of Florence · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biological agents target disease mechanisms and have modified the natural history of several immune-mediated disorders. Biological agents are structurally immunogenic, and therefore usually elicit a minor, subclinical and transient phenomenon. Occasionally, however, these drugs induce complete cellular and humoral immune responses, with the main clinical consequences being hypersensitivity reactions or loss of treatment response. This article considers the relative pathogenic mechanisms influencing immunogenicity in biological agents and discusses mechanisms of tolerance and adaptive immune response, including adaptive T-regulatory cell induction and immune response induction. Methods of determining cellular and humoral immune response to biological agents are identified and examined. Assays to detect antidrug antibodies and their isotypes can assist in monitoring immunogenicity and in preventing adverse events. Such strategies also enable resource conservation and may provide regulatory authorities with new insights that can be useful during the process of approving new biological or biosimilar agents.

Indexed as

Adaptive responseantidrug antibodiesbiologicalshumoral responseimmune responseimmunogenicitytolerance

Identifiers

PMID27683137
PMCPMC5536528
OpenAlexW2526744961

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