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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2019

Past, Present, and Future of Regulatory T Cell Therapy in Transplantation and Autoimmunity.

Marco Romano, Giorgia Fanelli, Caraugh Jane Albany, Giulio Giganti, Giovanna Lombardi

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In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 288 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
288citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
29.2field-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

288 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 495 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. CD4Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  9. Selective impact on regulatory T cells with sustained functional phenotypes by the interleukin-2 mutein VIS171 in a nonhuman primate model.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2026
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  12. CAR-mediated release of IL-10 increases the function of regulatory T cells: Relevance for future clinical application.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2026
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  13. Adoptive T-cell therapies in the clinic.Bioengineering & translational medicine · 2026
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228 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 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Marco RomanoImmunoregulation Laboratory, MRC Centre for Transplantation, School of Immunology & Microbial Sciences, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Giorgia FanelliImmunoregulation Laboratory, MRC Centre for Transplantation, School of Immunology & Microbial Sciences, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Caraugh Jane AlbanyImmunoregulation Laboratory, MRC Centre for Transplantation, School of Immunology & Microbial Sciences, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Giulio GigantiImmunoregulation Laboratory, MRC Centre for Transplantation, School of Immunology & Microbial Sciences, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Giovanna LombardiImmunoregulation Laboratory, MRC Centre for Transplantation, School of Immunology & Microbial Sciences, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
King's College London · GBUniversity of Milan · IT

Funding

British Heart Foundation RG/13/12/30395British Heart Foundation TG/16/2/32657Medical Research Council MR/K025538/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Regulatory T cells (Tregs) are important for the induction and maintenance of peripheral tolerance therefore, they are key in preventing excessive immune responses and autoimmunity. In the last decades, several reports have been focussed on understanding the biology of Tregs and their mechanisms of action. Preclinical studies have demonstrated the ability of Tregs to delay/prevent graft rejection and to control autoimmune responses following adoptive transfer

Indexed as

AutoimmunityImmunotherapy, AdoptiveAnimalsClinical Trials as TopicHumansImmune ToleranceImmunomodulationSignal TransductionT-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryTransplantation ToleranceTreatment Outcomeautoimmunitycell therapyclinical trialtransplantationTregs (regulatory T cells)

Identifiers

PMID30804926
PMCPMC6371029
OpenAlexW2913337434

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Registered trials

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