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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2018

Foxp3

Ethan M Shevach

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Review 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 89 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
89citing papers in PubMed
8.7field-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

89 citing papers in PubMed, 146 citations in OpenAlex.

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29 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ethan M ShevachLaboratory of Immune System Biology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD, United States.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · US

Funding

Studies of the Function of Naturally Occurring and Adaptive T Regulatory CellsZIAAI000959 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI SHEVACH, ETHAN · 2009 to 2025
$17.6M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

T regulatory (Treg) cells were discovered more than 20 years ago and have remained a topic of intense investigation by immunologists. The initial doubts about their existence were dissipated by the discovery in 2003 of the lineage specific transcription factor Foxp3. In this article, I will discuss some of the questions that I believe still need to be answered before we will be able to fully apply Treg therapy to the clinic. The major issue that remains to be resolved is how they mediate their suppressive functions. In order to correct defective suppression in autoimmune disease (assuming it is a causative factor) or to augment suppression in graft versus host disease or during organ transplantation, we still need to fully understand the biochemical nature of suppressor mechanisms. Similarly, in cancer, it is now widely accepted that reversal of Treg suppression would be highly desirable, yet which of the many purported pathways of suppression are operative in different tumors in different anatomic sites. Many of the concepts we have developed are based on

Indexed as

Autoimmune DiseasesForkhead Transcription FactorsGraft vs Host DiseaseHumansImmunosuppressive AgentsOrgan TransplantationT-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryForkhead Transcription FactorsFOXP3 protein, humanImmunosuppressive Agentsautoimmune diseasesFoxp3suppression mechanismstolerance mechanismsT regulatory cells

Identifiers

PMID29868011
PMCPMC5962663
OpenAlexW2799874579

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