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ArticleImmunity2017

Ablation of Transcription Factor IRF4 Promotes Transplant Acceptance by Driving Allogenic CD4

Jie Wu, Hedong Zhang, Xiaomin Shi, Xiang Xiao, Yihui Fan, Laurie J Minze, Jin Wang, Rafik M Ghobrial, Jiahong Xia, Roger Sciammas and 2 more

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Article in Immunity, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 65 papers.

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65citing papers in PubMed
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

65 citing papers in PubMed, 94 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Jie WuImmunobiology & Transplant Science Center, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Texas Medical Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430030, China.
Hedong ZhangImmunobiology & Transplant Science Center, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Texas Medical Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Xiaomin ShiImmunobiology & Transplant Science Center, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Texas Medical Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Xiang XiaoImmunobiology & Transplant Science Center, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Texas Medical Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Yihui FanImmunobiology & Transplant Science Center, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Texas Medical Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Laurie J MinzeImmunobiology & Transplant Science Center, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Texas Medical Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Jin WangImmunobiology & Transplant Science Center, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Texas Medical Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Rafik M GhobrialImmunobiology & Transplant Science Center, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Texas Medical Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Jiahong XiaDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430030, China.
Roger SciammasImmunobiology & Transplant Science Center, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Texas Medical Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Center for Comparative Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Xian C LiImmunobiology & Transplant Science Center, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Texas Medical Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Wenhao ChenImmunobiology & Transplant Science Center, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Texas Medical Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10065, USA. Electronic address: wchen@houstonmethodist.org.
Houston Methodist · USTexas Medical Center · USCornell University · USUnion Hospital · CN

Funding

Control of Treg exhaustion by OX40R01AI106200 · NIAID · METHODIST HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI LI, XIAN CHANG · 2014 to 2025
$4.2M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI106200
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

CD4

Indexed as

Graft SurvivalHeart TransplantationAnimalsCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesCell DifferentiationCell MovementDNA-Binding ProteinsGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression RegulationGraft RejectionGranzymesInterferon-gammaInterferon Regulatory Factor-4Interferon Regulatory FactorsInterleukin-17DNA-Binding ProteinsGranzymesInterferon-gammaInterferon Regulatory Factor-4Interferon Regulatory FactorsInterleukin-17Pdcd1 protein, mouseperforin, mousePore Forming Cytotoxic ProteinsProgrammed Cell Death 1 ReceptorTranscription FactorsZfpn1a2 protein, mouseinterferon regulatory factor 4programmed cell death protein 1T cell dysfunctiontranscriptional regulationtransplant acceptance

Identifiers

PMID29221730
PMCPMC5759774
OpenAlexW2773141414

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