Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29371568›Full record

ReviewJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland)2017

The Role of IL-17 in Protection against Mucosal Candida Infections.

Bemnet G Mengesha, Heather R Conti

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Review in Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 65 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
65citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
5.3field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 118 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 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 1 institution in 1 country.

Bemnet G MengeshaDepartment of Biological Sciences, The University of Toledo, 2801 West Bancroft St., Toledo, OH 43606, USA. bemnet.mengesha@rockets.utoledo.edu.
Heather R ContiDepartment of Biological Sciences, The University of Toledo, 2801 West Bancroft St., Toledo, OH 43606, USA. heather.conti@utoledo.edu.
University of Toledo · US

Funding

Novel role for β-defensin 3 in the regulation of innate lymphocytes and oral mucosal immune responsesR15DE026898 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO · PI CONTI, HEATHER RAQUEL · 2017 to 2017
$438k
NIDCR NIH HHS R15 DE026898
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Interleukin-17 (IL-17) is a proinflammatory cytokine produced by adaptive CD4+ T helper cells and innate lymphocytes, such as γδ-T cells and TCRβ+ "natural" Th17 cells. IL-17 activates signaling through the IL-17 receptor, which induces other proinflammatory cytokines, antimicrobial peptides and neutrophil chemokines that are important for antifungal activity. The importance of IL-17 in protective antifungal immunity is evident in mice and humans, where various genetic defects related to the IL-17-signaling pathway render them highly susceptible to forms of candidiasis such oropharyngeal candidiasis (OPC) or more broadly chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis (CMC), both caused mainly by the opportunistic fungal pathogen

Indexed as

C. albicanschronic mucocutaneous candidiasismucosal fungal infectionsoropharyngeal candidiasis

Identifiers

PMID29371568
PMCPMC5753154
OpenAlexW2759744557

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