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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2016

Tertiary Lymphoid Organs in Central Nervous System Autoimmunity.

Meike Mitsdoerffer, Anneli Peters

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In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 66 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
66citing papers in PubMed
6.4field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

66 citing papers in PubMed, 116 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. The CNS Meninges and the Synovial Joint: Parallel Immunological Structures in Autoimmune Disease.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2026
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  12. Dural ectopic lymphatic structures accumulate during aging and exhibit dysregulation in neurodegenerative diseases.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  15. Tertiary Lymphoid Structures in Central Nervous System Disorders.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
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6 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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Meike MitsdoerfferKlinikum Rechts der Isar, Department of Neurology, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany; Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Munich, Germany.
Anneli PetersDepartment of Neuroimmunology, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology , Martinsried , Germany.
Klinikum rechts der Isar · DEMax Planck Institute of Neurobiology · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease characterized by chronic inflammation in the central nervous system (CNS), which results in permanent neuronal damage and substantial disability in patients. Autoreactive T cells are important drivers of the disease; however, the efficacy of B cell depleting therapies uncovered an essential role for B cells in disease pathogenesis. They can contribute to inflammatory processes

Indexed as

autoimmunityEAEectopic lymphoid folliclesmultiple sclerosisTLO

Identifiers

PMID27826298
PMCPMC5078318
OpenAlexW2534553832

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Registered trials

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