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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2018

Simple, Reproducible, and Efficient Clinical Grading System for Murine Models of Acute Graft-versus-Host Disease.

Sina Naserian, Mathieu Leclerc, Allan Thiolat, Caroline Pilon, Cindy Le Bret, Yazid Belkacemi, Sébastien Maury, Frédéric Charlotte, José L Cohen

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Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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45citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
5.6field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

45 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 67 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Sina NaserianUniversité Paris-Est, UMR_S955, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne, Créteil, France.
Mathieu LeclercUniversité Paris-Est, UMR_S955, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne, Créteil, France.
Allan ThiolatUniversité Paris-Est, UMR_S955, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne, Créteil, France.
Caroline PilonUniversité Paris-Est, UMR_S955, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne, Créteil, France.
Cindy Le BretUniversité Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne, APHP, Service d'Oncologie-Radiothérapie, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France.
Yazid BelkacemiUniversité Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne, APHP, Service d'Oncologie-Radiothérapie, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France.
Sébastien MauryUniversité Paris-Est, UMR_S955, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne, Créteil, France.
Frédéric CharlotteAPHP, Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière, Service d'Anatomopathologie, Paris, France.
José L CohenUniversité Paris-Est, UMR_S955, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne, Créteil, France.
Université Paris-Est Créteil · FRAssistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris · FRInserm · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD) represents a challenging complication after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Despite the intensive preclinical research in the field of prevention and treatment of aGVHD, and the presence of a well-established clinical grading system to evaluate human aGVHD, such a valid tool is still lacking for the evaluation of murine aGVHD. Indeed, several scoring systems have been reported, but none of them has been properly evaluated and they all share some limitations: they incompletely reflect the disease, rely on severity stages that are distinguished by subjective assessment of clinical criteria and are not easy to discriminate, which could render evaluation more time consuming, and their reproducibility among different experimenters is uncertain. Consequently, clinical murine aGVHD description is often based merely on animal weight loss and mortality. Here, we propose a simple scoring system of aGVHD relying on the binary (yes or no) evaluation of five important visual parameters that reflect the complexity of the disease without the need to sacrifice the mice. We show that this scoring system is consistent with the gold standard histological staging of aGVHD across several donor/recipient mice combinations. This system is also a strong predictor of survival of recipient mice when used early after transplant and is highly reproducible between experimenters.

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Severity of Illness IndexAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalGraft vs Host DiseaseHematologic NeoplasmsHematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationMiceMice, Inbred BALB CMice, Inbred C57BLMice, Inbred DBAPrognosisacute graft-versus-host diseaseclassificationclinical gradingmicemurine modelsprognostic factor

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PMID29403494
PMCPMC5786520
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