Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29431864›Full record

ReviewJournal of leukocyte biology2018

Negative regulators that mediate ocular immune privilege.

Andrew W Taylor, Tat Fong Ng

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In one paragraph

Review in Journal of leukocyte biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
54citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
8.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

54 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 91 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andrew W TaylorBoston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Tat Fong NgBoston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Boston University · US

Funding

Manipulation of Immunity to Treat UveitisR01EY025961 · NEI · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI TAYLOR, ANDREW W · 2016 to 2023
$3.3M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY025961
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ocular microenvironment has adapted several negative regulators of inflammation to maintain immune privilege and health of the visual axis. Several constitutively produced negative regulators within the eye TGF-β2, α-melanocyte stimulating hormone (α-MSH), Fas ligand (FasL), and PD-L1 standout because of their capacity to influence multiple pathways of inflammation, and that they are part of promoting immune tolerance. These regulators demonstrate the capacity of immune privilege to prevent the activation of inflammation, and to suppress activation of effector immune cells even under conditions of ocular inflammation induced by endotoxin and autoimmune disease. In addition, these negative regulators promote and expand immune cells that mediate regulatory and tolerogenic immunity. This in turn makes the immune cells themselves negative regulators of inflammation. This provides for a greater understanding of immune privilege in that it includes both molecular and cellular negative regulators of inflammation. This would mean that potentially new approaches to the treatment of autoimmune disease can be developed through the use of molecules and cells as negative regulators of inflammation.

Indexed as

anti-inflammatoryeyeImmunosuppressionneuropeptidesregulatory T cellssuppressor macrophagestolerance

Identifiers

PMID29431864
PMCPMC6240388
OpenAlexW2792966011

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