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ReviewThe Journal of clinical investigation2017

Cytokine mediators of chronic graft-versus-host disease.

Kelli Pa MacDonald, Bruce R Blazar, Geoffrey R Hill

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Review in The Journal of clinical investigation, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 66 papers.

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66citing papers in PubMed
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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, 101 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Kelli Pa MacDonaldAntigen Presentation and Immunoregulation Laboratory, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia.
Bruce R BlazarMasonic Cancer Center; and Division of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Department of Pediatrics; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.
Geoffrey R HillBone Marrow Transplantation Laboratory, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia.
QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute · AURoyal Brisbane and Women's Hospital · AUUniversity of Minnesota · US

Funding

Transgenic/KnockoutP01AI056299 · NIAID · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI BLAZAR, BRUCE R · 2003 to 2023
$42.5M
THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES TO OVARIAN/BREAST CANCER--HIGH DOSE CHEMOTHERAPY AND ABMSP01CA047741 · NCI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI CHAO, NELSON J. · 1990 to 2013
$19.5M
Project 3: Humoral Targets and B Cell Biology in Chronic Graft-vs.-Host DiseaseP01CA142106 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI RITZ, JEROME · 2009 to 2019
$17.5M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA047741NCI NIH HHS P01 CA142106NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI056299
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Substantial preclinical and clinical research into chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) has come to fruition in the last five years, generating a clear understanding of a complex cytokine-driven cellular network. cGVHD is mediated by naive T cells differentiating within IL-17-secreting T cell and follicular Th cell paradigms to generate IL-21 and IL-17A, which drive pathogenic germinal center (GC) B cell reactions and monocyte-macrophage differentiation, respectively. cGVHD pathogenesis includes thymic damage, impaired antigen presentation, and a failure in IL-2-dependent Treg homeostasis. Pathogenic GC B cell and macrophage reactions culminate in antibody formation and TGF-β secretion, respectively, leading to fibrosis. This new understanding permits the design of rational cytokine and intracellular signaling pathway-targeted therapeutics, reviewed herein.

Indexed as

AnimalsB-LymphocytesChronic DiseaseCytokinesGerminal CenterGraft vs Host DiseaseHumansMacrophagesSignal TransductionT-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryCytokines

Identifiers

PMID28665299
PMCPMC5490762
OpenAlexW2728529182

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