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ReviewCurrent opinion in hematology2017

Platelets in neutrophil recruitment to sites of inflammation.

Simon Pitchford, Dingxin Pan, Heidi C E Welch

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Review in Current opinion in hematology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
53citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
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

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

53 citing papers in PubMed, 82 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Simon PitchfordaSackler Institute of Pulmonary Pharmacology, Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, King's College London, London bSignalling Programme, Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK.
Dingxin Pan
Heidi C E Welch
Babraham Institute · GBKing's College London · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/B/000C0411Medical Research Council G120/825
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewThis review describes the essential roles of platelets in neutrophil recruitment from the bloodstream into inflamed and infected tissues, with a focus on recent findings. RECENT

findingsPlatelets are required for the recruitment of neutrophils to sites of inflammation and infection. They fulfil this role largely by enabling contacts of circulating neutrophils with the inflamed blood vessel wall prior to extravasation. Platelets promote both early stages of neutrophil recruitment (tethering, rolling, arrest, firm adhesion) and - as recent work has demonstrated - later stages (intravascular crawling and diapedesis). Recent studies have also begun to identify platelet-signaling pathways that can elicit the underlying interactions between platelets, neutrophils and vascular endothelial cells without stimulating concomitant platelet aggregation and thrombus formation. These pathways include Rho-guanine-nucleotide binding proteins and Rho-guanine-nucleotide exchange factors. SUMMARY: Recent findings have contributed to our burgeoning understanding of the platelet-dependent mechanisms that control neutrophil recruitment to sites of inflammation and have opened up new avenues of research aimed at increasing our knowledge of these mechanisms further. These insights might lead to the development of novel anti-inflammatory drugs that will be useful in a wide range of inflammatory diseases without causing immunodeficiency.

Indexed as

Neutrophil InfiltrationAnimalsBlood PlateletsCell CommunicationHumansInflammationNeutrophilsrho GTP-Binding ProteinsRho Guanine Nucleotide Exchange FactorsSignal Transductionrho GTP-Binding ProteinsRho Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors

Identifiers

PMID27820736
PMCPMC5421649
OpenAlexW2548427433

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