Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28734174›Full record

ReviewCurrent opinion in immunology2017

Old and new adjuvants.

Amy S McKee, Philippa Marrack

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In one paragraph

Review in Current opinion in immunology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 100 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
100citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
10.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

100 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 195 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Controlling timing and location in vaccines.Advanced drug delivery reviews · 2020
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40 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.

Amy S McKeeDepartment of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA; Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA. Electronic address: amy.mckee@ucdenver.edu.
Philippa MarrackDepartment of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA; Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA; Department of Biomedical Research, National Jewish Health, 1400, Jackson St., Denver, CO 80206, USA.
National Jewish Health · USUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus · US

Funding

Project 3: Epitope Selection in Type 1 DiabetesP01AI118688 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI ANDERSON, MARK S · 2016 to 2020
$8.4M
CHARACTERISTICS OF T CELL RECEPTORSR01AI018785 · NIAID · NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH · PI MARRACK, PHILIPPA C. · 1985 to 2022
$7.3M
Investigating paclitaxel treatment in a pre-clinical model of Schistosoma-pulmonary hypertensionR01HL135872 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI Brian Barkley Graham · 2017 to 2026
$5.1M
Interactions between antigen-specific effector and regulatory T cells in beryllium-induced diseaseR01ES025534 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI FONTENOT, ANDREW P. · 2016 to 2020
$2.1M
Innate effects of beryllium on pulmonarydendritic cell function in chronic beryllium diseaseR01HL126736 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI MCKEE, AMY STRAW · 2016 to 2020
$1.9M
CHARACTERISTICS OF T-CELL RECEPTORSR37AI018785 · NIAID · NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH · PI MARRACK, PHILIPPA C. · 1992 to 2001
$522k
Characteristics of T Cell ReceptorsR56AI018785 · NIAID · NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH · PI MARRACK, PHILIPPA C. · 2012 to 2012
$410k
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL126736NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL135872NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI118688NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI018785NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI018785NIAID NIH HHS R56 AI018785NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES025534
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adjuvants have been deliberately added to vaccines since the 1920's when alum was discovered to boost antibody responses, leading to better protection. The first adjuvants were discovered by accident and were used in the safer but less immunogenic subunit vaccines, supposedly by providing an antigen depot to extend antigen presentation. Since that time, much has been discovered about how these adjuvants impact cells at the tissue site to activate innate immune responses, mobilize dendritic cells and drive adaptive immunity. New approaches to vaccine construction for infectious diseases that have so far not been well addressed by conventional vaccines often attempt to induce antibodies, polyfunctional CD4

Indexed as

Adjuvants, ImmunologicAdaptive ImmunityAlum CompoundsAnimalsAntibody FormationAntigen PresentationCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesDendritic CellsHumansLymphocyte ActivationVaccinesAdjuvants, ImmunologicAlum Compoundsaluminum sulfateVaccines

Identifiers

PMID28734174
PMCPMC5724967
OpenAlexW2738554310

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Registered trials

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