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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017

Myocardial aging as a T-cell-mediated phenomenon.

Gustavo Campos Ramos, Anne van den Berg, Vânia Nunes-Silva, Johannes Weirather, Laura Peters, Matthias Burkard, Mike Friedrich, Jürgen Pinnecker, Marco Abeßer, Katrin G Heinze and 6 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 118 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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118citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
10.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

118 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 163 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Myocardial Immune Cells: The Basis of Cardiac Immunology.Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) · 2023
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  5. Multicellular senescence programs in the aged heart.Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology plus · 2026
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  14. Thymic Bmi-1 hampers γδT17 generation and its derived RORγt-IL-17A signaling to delay cardiac aging.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  19. T cells in cardiac health and disease.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2025
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  20. Immunometabolism in the Aging Heart.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025
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58 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

16 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Gustavo Campos RamosDepartment of Internal Medicine III, University Clinic Halle, D-06120 Halle, Germany; gustavo.ramos@uk-halle.de.
Anne van den BergComprehensive Heart Failure Center, University Clinic Wuerzburg, D-97078 Wuerzburg, Germany.
Vânia Nunes-SilvaInstituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, PT-2781-901 Oeiras, Portugal.
Johannes WeiratherComprehensive Heart Failure Center, University Clinic Wuerzburg, D-97078 Wuerzburg, Germany.
Laura PetersComprehensive Heart Failure Center, University Clinic Wuerzburg, D-97078 Wuerzburg, Germany.
Matthias BurkardComprehensive Heart Failure Center, University Clinic Wuerzburg, D-97078 Wuerzburg, Germany.
Mike FriedrichRudolf Virchow Center for Experimental Biomedicine, University of Wuerzburg, D-97080 Wuerzburg, Germany.
Jürgen PinneckerRudolf Virchow Center for Experimental Biomedicine, University of Wuerzburg, D-97080 Wuerzburg, Germany.
Marco AbeßerInstitute of Physiology I, University of Wuerzburg, D-97070 Wuerzburg, Germany.
Katrin G HeinzeRudolf Virchow Center for Experimental Biomedicine, University of Wuerzburg, D-97080 Wuerzburg, Germany.
Kai SchuhInstitute of Physiology I, University of Wuerzburg, D-97070 Wuerzburg, Germany.
Niklas BeyersdorfInstitute for Virology and Immunobiology, University of Wuerzburg, D-97078 Wuerzburg, Germany.
Thomas KerkauInstitute for Virology and Immunobiology, University of Wuerzburg, D-97078 Wuerzburg, Germany.
Jocelyne DemengeotInstituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, PT-2781-901 Oeiras, Portugal.
Stefan FrantzDepartment of Internal Medicine III, University Clinic Halle, D-06120 Halle, Germany.
Ulrich HofmannDepartment of Internal Medicine III, University Clinic Halle, D-06120 Halle, Germany.
University of Würzburg · DEUniversity Hospital in Halle · DEInstituto Gulbenkian de Ciência · PT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In recent years, the myocardium has been rediscovered under the lenses of immunology, and lymphocytes have been implicated in the pathogenesis of cardiomyopathies with different etiologies. Aging is an important risk factor for heart diseases, and it also has impact on the immune system. Thus, we sought to determine whether immunological activity would influence myocardial structure and function in elderly mice. Morphological, functional, and molecular analyses revealed that the age-related myocardial impairment occurs in parallel with shifts in the composition of tissue-resident leukocytes and with an accumulation of activated CD4

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Adoptive TransferAgingAnimalsCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesHeartHumansLymph NodesMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMyocardiumaginginflammaginginflammationmyocardialT cells

Identifiers

PMID28255084
PMCPMC5373357
OpenAlexW2592528608

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