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Trial reportJournal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)2019

Abatacept Targets T Follicular Helper and Regulatory T Cells, Disrupting Molecular Pathways That Regulate Their Proliferation and Maintenance.

Simon Glatigny, Barbara Höllbacher, Samantha J Motley, Cathy Tan, Christian Hundhausen, Jane H Buckner, Dawn Smilek, Samia J Khoury, Linna Ding, Tielin Qin and 6 more

Open access · bronzeAbstract readClinical Trial, Phase IIRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
45citing papers in PubMed
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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

45 citing papers in PubMed, 64 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. T follicular helper cells in primary immune regulatory disorders.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2025
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  19. Clinical utility of measuring CD4Journal of autoimmunity · 2023
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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

16 authors at 7 institutions in 2 countries.

Simon GlatignyImmunology Program, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101.
Barbara HöllbacherImmunology Program, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101.ORCID 0000-0001-9848-7870
Samantha J MotleyImmunology Program, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101.
Cathy TanImmunology Program, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101.
Christian HundhausenImmunology Program, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101.
Jane H BucknerImmunology Program, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101.ORCID 0000-0002-9005-1885
Dawn SmilekImmune Tolerance Network, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94107.
Samia J KhouryBrigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Linna DingNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Transplantation, Rockville, MD 20852.ORCID 0000-0001-8035-8026
Tielin QinImmune Tolerance Network, Bethesda, MD 20814; and.
Jorge PardoImmune Tolerance Network, Bethesda, MD 20814; and.
Gerald T NepomImmunology Program, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101.ORCID 0000-0002-8063-1464
Laurence A TurkaImmune Tolerance Network, Bethesda, MD 20814; and.
Kristina M HarrisImmune Tolerance Network, Bethesda, MD 20814; and.ORCID 0000-0002-6957-514X
Daniel J CampbellImmunology Program, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101; ebettelli@benaroyaresearch.org dcampbell@benaroyaresearch.org.ORCID 0000-0002-9652-7178
Estelle BettelliImmunology Program, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101; ebettelli@benaroyaresearch.org dcampbell@benaroyaresearch.org.ORCID 0000-0002-1899-7692
Benaroya Research InstituteImmune Tolerance Network · USUniversity of Washington · USBrigham and Women's Hospital · USMassachusetts General Hospital · USNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

Immune Tolerance Network UM1 2023 SupplementUM1AI109565 · NIAID · BENAROYA RESEARCH INST AT VIRGINIA MASON · PI Mark S Anderson, Jane Hoyt Buckner · 2014 to 2026
$451.6M
NIAID NIH HHS UM1 AI109565
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Abatacept is a CTLA-4-Ig fusion protein that binds to the costimulatory ligands CD80 and CD86 and blocks their interaction with the CD28 and CTLA-4 receptors expressed by T cells, therefore inhibiting T cell activation and function. Abatacept has shown clinical efficacy in treating some autoimmune diseases but has failed to show clinical benefit in other autoimmune conditions. The reasons for these disparate results are not clear and warrant further investigation of abatacept's mode of action. Longitudinal specimens from the Immune Tolerance Network's A Cooperative Clinical Study of Abatacept in Multiple Sclerosis trial were used to examine the effects of abatacept treatment on the frequency and transcriptional profile of specific T cell populations in peripheral blood. We found that the relative abundance of CD4

Indexed as

AbataceptCell ProliferationDouble-Blind MethodHumansImmunosuppressive AgentsMultiple SclerosisT-Lymphocytes, Helper-InducerT-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryAbataceptImmunosuppressive Agents

Identifiers

PMID30683697
PMCPMC6481683
OpenAlexW2911841701

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