Evidence map›Paper›PMID 30079067›Full record

ReviewFrontiers in immunology2018

Disruption in the Regulation of Immune Responses in the Placental Subtype of Preeclampsia.

Janri Geldenhuys, Theresa Marie Rossouw, Hendrik Andries Lombaard, Marthie Magdaleen Ehlers, Marleen Magdalena Kock

Open access · goldAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

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 79 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
79citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
7.5field-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

79 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 131 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Review
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Review
  10. Article
  11. Review
  12. Immune Cells in Preeclampsia.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
    Review
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Article
  17. Review
  18. Review
  19. Review
  20. Article

19 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

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Janri GeldenhuysDepartment of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
Theresa Marie RossouwDepartment of Immunology, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
Hendrik Andries LombaardObstetrics and Gynecology, Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital, Wits Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinical Research Division, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Marthie Magdaleen EhlersDepartment of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
Marleen Magdalena KockDepartment of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
University of Pretoria · ZANational Health Laboratory Service · ZAUniversity of the Witwatersrand · ZA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Preeclampsia is a pregnancy-specific disorder, of which one of its major subtypes, the placental subtype is considered a response to an ischemic placental environment, impacting fetal growth and pregnancy outcome. Inflammatory immune responses have been linked to metabolic and inflammatory disorders as well as reproductive failures. In healthy pregnancy, immune regulatory mechanisms prevent excessive systemic inflammation. However, in preeclampsia, the regulation of immune responses is disrupted as a result of aberrant activation of innate immune cells and imbalanced differentiation of T-helper cell subsets creating a cytotoxic environment

Indexed as

immune regulationinflammationmonocytespreeclampsiapregnancytrophoblast invasion

Identifiers

PMID30079067
PMCPMC6062603
OpenAlexW2884268977

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.