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ReviewNature reviews. Immunology2019

Autophagy in the renewal, differentiation and homeostasis of immune cells.

Alexander J Clarke, Anna Katharina Simon

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Review in Nature reviews. Immunology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 230 papers.

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230citing papers in PubMed
23.0field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

230 citing papers in PubMed, 343 citations in OpenAlex.

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170 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

2 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Alexander J ClarkeKennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford, UK.
Anna Katharina SimonKennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford, UK. katja.simon@kennedy.ox.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2846-7860
University of Oxford · GB

Funding

Wellcome Trust 103830/Z/14/ZWellcome Trust 104549/Z/14/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Across all branches of the immune system, the process of autophagy is fundamentally important in cellular development, function and homeostasis. Strikingly, this evolutionarily ancient pathway for intracellular recycling has been adapted to enable a high degree of functional complexity and specialization. However, although the requirement for autophagy in normal immune cell function is clear, the mechanisms involved are much less so and encompass control of metabolism, selective degradation of substrates and organelles and participation in cell survival decisions. We review here the crucial functions of autophagy in controlling the differentiation and homeostasis of multiple immune cell types and discuss the potential mechanisms involved.

Indexed as

AutophagyB-LymphocytesCell DifferentiationHomeostasisHumansLymphocytesMyeloid CellsT-Lymphocytes

Identifiers

PMID30531943
OpenAlexW2903895128

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