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ReviewInternational journal of tryptophan research : IJTR2017

Aspects of Tryptophan and Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide in Immunity: A New Twist in an Old Tale.

Hector Rodriguez Cetina Biefer, Anju Vasudevan, Abdallah Elkhal

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In one paragraph

Review in International journal of tryptophan research : IJTR, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
28citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 23% 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

28 citing papers in PubMed, 42 citations in OpenAlex.

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  19. Abnormal Tryptophan Metabolism in HIV andFrontiers in microbiology · 2021
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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

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Hector Rodriguez Cetina BieferDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Anju VasudevanAngiogenesis and Brain Development Laboratory, Division of Basic Neuroscience, McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA, USA.
Abdallah ElkhalDivision of Transplant Surgery and Transplantation Surgery Research Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Brigham and Women's Hospital · USMcLean Hospital · USUniversity Hospital of Zurich · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Increasing evidence underscores the interesting ability of tryptophan to regulate immune responses. However, the exact mechanisms of tryptophan's immune regulation remain to be determined. Tryptophan catabolism via the kynurenine pathway is known to play an important role in tryptophan's involvement in immune responses. Interestingly, quinolinic acid, which is a neurotoxic catabolite of the kynurenine pathway, is the major pathway for the

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immune responseskynurenine pathwayNAD+Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotidetryptophan

Identifiers

PMID28659716
PMCPMC5476425
OpenAlexW2625279885

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