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ReviewDiabetologia2017

Regulatory T cell dysfunction in type 1 diabetes: what's broken and how can we fix it?

Caroline M Hull, Mark Peakman, Timothy I M Tree

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Review in Diabetologia, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 115 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
115citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
11.5field-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

115 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 188 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. A Systematic Review of Phytochemistry, Pharmacology and Pharmacokinetics onInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2019
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  7. Pathogenesis and advances in immunotherapy for type 1 diabetes treatment.Biotechnology reports (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2026
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55 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 1 country.

Caroline M HullProgramme of Infection and Immunity, Department of Immunobiology, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, Borough Wing, Guy's Hospital, London, SE1 9RT, UK. caroline.hull@kcl.ac.uk.
Mark PeakmanProgramme of Infection and Immunity, Department of Immunobiology, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, Borough Wing, Guy's Hospital, London, SE1 9RT, UK.
Timothy I M TreeProgramme of Infection and Immunity, Department of Immunobiology, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, Borough Wing, Guy's Hospital, London, SE1 9RT, UK. timothy.tree@kcl.ac.uk.
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust · GBGuy's Hospital · GBKing's College London · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease characterised by the destruction of insulin producing beta cells in the pancreas. Whilst it remains unclear what the original triggering factors for this destruction are, observations from the natural history of human type 1 diabetes, including incidence rates in twins, suggest that the disease results from a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Whilst many different immune cells have been implicated, including members of the innate and adaptive immune systems, a view has emerged over the past 10 years that beta cell damage is mediated by the combined actions of CD4

Indexed as

Immune ToleranceAnimalsDiabetes Mellitus, Type 1HumansT-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryImmune regulationImmunotherapyReviewTregsType 1 diabetes

Identifiers

PMID28770318
PMCPMC6448885
OpenAlexW2739639576

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