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ReviewPharmacology & therapeutics2019

Quenching the fires: Pro-resolving mediators, air pollution, and smoking.

Thomas H Thatcher, Collynn F Woeller, Claire E McCarthy, Patricia J Sime

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In one paragraph

Review in Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
19citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 17% 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

19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. Inhaled toxicants and pulmonary lipid metabolism: biological consequences and therapeutic interventions.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2023
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  13. The Impact of Ambient Environmental and Occupational Pollution on Respiratory Diseases.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Thomas H ThatcherDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry Rochester, NY 14642, United States; Lung Biology and Disease Program, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, United States.
Collynn F WoellerLung Biology and Disease Program, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, United States; Department of Environmental Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, United States.
Claire E McCarthyNational Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Biology, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, United States.
Patricia J SimeDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry Rochester, NY 14642, United States; Lung Biology and Disease Program, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, United States; Department of Environmental Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, United States. Electronic address: Patricia_Sime@urmc.rochester.edu.
University of Rochester · USNational Cancer Institute · US

Funding

Dysregulation of common metabolic and transcriptional pathways in heart and lung fibrosisR01HL133761 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI SMALL, ERIC M, WOELLER, COLLYNN FREMONT · 2016 to 2019
$2.1M
Novel therapies for cigarette smoke induced lung injuryR01HL120908 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI SIME, PATRICIA JANET · 2014 to 2017
$1.6M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL120908NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL133761
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Exposure to air pollution and other environmental inhalation hazards, such as occupational exposures to dusts and fumes, aeroallergens, and tobacco smoke, is a significant cause of chronic lung inflammation leading to respiratory disease. It is now recognized that resolution of inflammation is an active process controlled by a novel family of small lipid mediators termed "specialized pro-resolving mediators" or SPMs, derived mainly from dietary omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids. Chronic inflammation results from an imbalance between pro-inflammatory and pro-resolution pathways. Research is ongoing to develop SPMs, and the pro-resolution pathway more generally, as a novel therapeutic approach to diseases characterized by chronic inflammation. Here, we will review evidence that the resolution pathway is dysregulated in chronic lung inflammatory diseases, and that SPMs and related molecules have exciting therapeutic potential to reverse or prevent chronic lung inflammation, with a focus on lung inflammation due to inhalation of environmental hazards including urban particulate matter, organic dusts and tobacco smoke.

Indexed as

Air PollutionCigarette SmokingLipid MetabolismAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalHumansInflammationInflammation MediatorsLung DiseasesInflammation MediatorsAir pollutionChronic inflammationCigarette smokingCOPDPro-resolving mediatorsSPMs

Identifiers

PMID30759375
PMCPMC6537608
OpenAlexW2913210103

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