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ArticleInfection and immunity2018

Interleukin-17A Exacerbates Disease Severity in BALB/c Mice Susceptible to Lung Infection with Mycoplasma pulmonis.

Maximillion T Mize, Xiangle L Sun, Jerry W Simecka

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Article in Infection and immunity, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 23% 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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Maximillion T MizeDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences and UNT Preclinical Services, University of North Texas System College of Pharmacy, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2913-4286
Xiangle L SunDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology, and Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
Jerry W SimeckaDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences and UNT Preclinical Services, University of North Texas System College of Pharmacy, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, USA Jerry.Simecka@unthsc.edu.
University of North Texas · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mycoplasmas are atypical bacteria that disrupt the immune response to promote respiratory tract infections and secondary complications. However, not every immunologic response that protects or damages the host during mycoplasma infection is known. Interleukin-17A (IL-17A) is elevated in individuals infected with mycoplasmas, but how IL-17A and its cellular sources dictate disease outcome remains unclear. Here, IL-17A is hypothesized to worsen disease in individuals susceptible to mycoplasma infection. Thus, monoclonal anti-IL-17A antibodies were given to disease-susceptible BALB/c mice and disease-resistant C57BL/6 mice infected with

Indexed as

AnimalsAntibodies, MonoclonalCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesCytokinesFemaleInterferon-gammaInterleukin-17LungMiceMice, Inbred BALB CMice, Inbred C57BLMycoplasma InfectionsMycoplasma pulmonisNeutrophilsRespiratory Tract InfectionsAntibodies, MonoclonalCytokinesIl17a protein, mouseInterferon-gammaInterleukin-17bacterialcytokinesIL-17inflammationlung infectionmucosamycoplasmaTh17 cells

Identifiers

PMID29986888
PMCPMC6105906
OpenAlexW2810186886

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