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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2018

S100A4

Yanan Li, Jing Bao, Yangyang Bian, Ulrike Erben, Peigang Wang, Kun Song, Shuangqing Liu, Zhenzhen Li, Zhancheng Gao, Zhihai Qin

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In one paragraph

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 60 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
60citing papers in PubMed
5.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

60 citing papers in PubMed, 86 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

10 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Yanan LiKey Laboratory of Protein and Peptide Pharmaceuticals, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Chinese Academy of Sciences-University of Tokyo Joint Laboratory of Structural Virology and Immunology, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Jing BaoDepartment of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing, China.
Yangyang BianMedical Research Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
Ulrike ErbenKey Laboratory of Protein and Peptide Pharmaceuticals, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Chinese Academy of Sciences-University of Tokyo Joint Laboratory of Structural Virology and Immunology, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Peigang WangKey Laboratory of Protein and Peptide Pharmaceuticals, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Chinese Academy of Sciences-University of Tokyo Joint Laboratory of Structural Virology and Immunology, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Kun SongKey Laboratory of Protein and Peptide Pharmaceuticals, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Chinese Academy of Sciences-University of Tokyo Joint Laboratory of Structural Virology and Immunology, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Shuangqing LiuKey Laboratory of Protein and Peptide Pharmaceuticals, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Chinese Academy of Sciences-University of Tokyo Joint Laboratory of Structural Virology and Immunology, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Zhenzhen LiMedical Research Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
Zhancheng GaoDepartment of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing, China.
Zhihai QinKey Laboratory of Protein and Peptide Pharmaceuticals, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Chinese Academy of Sciences-University of Tokyo Joint Laboratory of Structural Virology and Immunology, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University · CNChinese Academy of Sciences · CNInstitute of Biophysics · CNPeking University · CNUniversity of Chinese Academy of Sciences · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

S100A4, a calcium-binding protein, can promote pulmonary fibrosis

Indexed as

ActinsAnimalsBleomycinBronchoalveolar Lavage FluidCD11b AntigenCell LineDisease Models, AnimalFibroblastsHumansIdiopathic Pulmonary FibrosisLungMacrophages, AlveolarMiceMice, Inbred C57BLRAW 264.7 CellsS100 Calcium-Binding Protein A4ACTA2 protein, humanActinsBleomycinCD11b AntigenS100A4 protein, humanS100a4 protein, mouseS100 Calcium-Binding Protein A4fibroblastsmacrophagespulmonary fibrosisS100A4sphingosine-1-phosphate

Identifiers

PMID30127784
PMCPMC6088238
OpenAlexW2885671054

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