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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2018

Differences Between Pediatric and Adult T Cell Responses to

Mark E Rudolph, Monica A McArthur, Robin S Barnes, Laurence S Magder, Wilbur H Chen, Marcelo B Sztein

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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 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 11% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 38 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

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mark E RudolphCenter for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Monica A McArthurCenter for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Robin S BarnesCenter for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Laurence S MagderEpidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Wilbur H ChenCenter for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Marcelo B SzteinCenter for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.
University of Maryland, Baltimore · US

Funding

Wild-type S. typhi Infection in Humans: Integrated Immunoprotective MechanismsU19AI082655 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI GREENWALD, BRUCE D · 2009 to 2018
$27.8M
Shigella Live Vector-Based Multivalent VaccineU19AI109776 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI LEVINE, MYRON MAX · 2014 to 2018
$25.4M
NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI082655NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI109776
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Toxic shock syndrome (TSS) is capable of inducing life-threatening fever, rash, and systemic organ failure, though the specific mechanisms behind these symptoms remain poorly understood. Staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) and other superantigens have shown to be important factors in TSS, capable of promoting cross-linking between T cell receptors and major histocompatibility complexes which results in overwhelming T cell activation, proliferation, and cytokine production. The resulting proinflammatory cytokine cascade, often referred to as the "cytokine storm," seems to be critical to the development of disease. Interestingly, clinical studies have shown that children exhibit less severe TSS-associated morbidity than adults, though the mechanism behind this phenomenon has not been addressed. Indeed, despite the fact that most novel antigen exposure occurs early in life, be it from environmentally acquired pathogens or routine vaccination, normal pediatric T cell immune functions remain critically underexplored. This is largely due to difficulty in obtaining enough samples to explore more than a narrow sliver of the cell-mediated immune compartment. To address this limitation, we optimized a T effector (T

Indexed as

AdolescentAdultAgedAgingCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesChildEnterotoxinsFemaleHumansLymphocyte ActivationMaleMiddle AgedT-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducerenterotoxin B, staphylococcalEnterotoxinsdimensionality reductionmass cytometrymultifunctionalitypediatric immunologystaphylococcal enterotoxin BT cell responsetoxic shock syndrome

Identifiers

PMID29616025
PMCPMC5869216
OpenAlexW2789660756

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