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ReviewTrends in molecular medicine2018

IL-1 Family Cytokine Pathways Underlying NAFLD: Towards New Treatment Strategies.

Andreea-Manuela Mirea, Cees J Tack, Triantafyllos Chavakis, Leo A B Joosten, Erik J M Toonen

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Review in Trends in molecular medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 85 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
85citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
7.6field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

85 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 133 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Andreea-Manuela MireaDepartment of Internal Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Cees J TackDepartment of Internal Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Triantafyllos ChavakisInstitute for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Clinic Carl-Gustav-Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Leo A B JoostenDepartment of Internal Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Erik J M ToonenDepartment of Internal Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; R&D Department, Hycult Biotech, Uden, The Netherlands. Electronic address: e.toonen@hycultbiotech.com.
Radboud University Medical Center · NLRadboud University Nijmegen · NLUniversity Hospital Carl Gustav Carus · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common liver disease worldwide. Pathways responsible for the activation of IL-1 family cytokines are key in the development of NAFLD but underlying mechanisms are not fully understood. Many studies have focused on the inflammasome-caspase-1 pathway and have shown that this pathway is an important inducer of inflammation in NAFLD. However, this pathway is not solely responsible for the activation of proinflammatory cytokines. Also, neutrophil serine proteases (NSPs) are capable of activating cytokines and recent studies reported that these proteases also contribute to NAFLD. These studies provided, for the first time, evidence that this inflammasome-independent pathway is involved in NAFLD. In our opinion, these new insights open up new approaches for therapeutic intervention.

Indexed as

Signal TransductionAnimalsCaspase 1CytokinesHumansInflammasomesInterleukin-1Models, BiologicalNLR Family, Pyrin Domain-Containing 3 ProteinNon-alcoholic Fatty Liver DiseaseCaspase 1CytokinesInflammasomesInterleukin-1NLR Family, Pyrin Domain-Containing 3 Proteininflammasomeinflammationinterleukin-1neutrophil serine proteasesnonalcoholic fatty liver diseaseobesity

Identifiers

PMID29665983
PMCPMC5939989
OpenAlexW2800636005

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