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Trial reportFrontiers in immunology2018

The Soluble Form of Toll-Like Receptor 2 Is Elevated in Serum of Multiple Sclerosis Patients: A Novel Potential Disease Biomarker.

Md Jakir Hossain, Elena Morandi, Radu Tanasescu, Nanci Frakich, Marzia Caldano, David Onion, Tola A Faraj, Clett Erridge, Bruno Gran

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Trial report 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 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 56 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

9 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Md Jakir HossainDivision of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Nottingham School of Medicine, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Elena MorandiDivision of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Nottingham School of Medicine, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Radu TanasescuDivision of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Nottingham School of Medicine, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Nanci FrakichDivision of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Nottingham School of Medicine, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Marzia CaldanoNeurologia - Centro Riferimento Regionale Sclerosi Multipla (CReSM), Neuroscience Institute Cavalieri Ottolenghi (NICO), San Luigi University Hospital, Orbassano, Turin, Italy.
David OnionSchool of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham Flow Cytometry Facility, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Tola A FarajDepartment of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Clinical Sciences Wing, Glenfield General Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom.
Clett ErridgeDepartment of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Clinical Sciences Wing, Glenfield General Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom.
Bruno GranDivision of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Nottingham School of Medicine, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Queen's Medical Centre · GBUniversity of Nottingham · GBGlenfield Hospital · GBNeuroscience Institute · ITUniversity of Leicester · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an immune-mediated inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system. It was previously shown that toll-like receptor (TLR)-2 signaling plays a key role in the murine experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) model of MS, and that TLR2-stimulation of regulatory T cells (Tregs) promotes their conversion to T helper 17 (Th17) cells. Here, we sought potential sources of TLR2 stimulation and evidence of TLR2 activity in MS patient clinical samples. Soluble TLR2 (sTLR2) was found to be significantly elevated in sera of MS patients (

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Identifiers

PMID29593720
PMCPMC5861194
OpenAlexW2792635947

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