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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2019

Microbiome and Autoimmune Uveitis.

Reiko Horai, Rachel R Caspi

Open access · goldAbstract readReview
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 79 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
79citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.6field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

79 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 122 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. The Immunopathogenesis of uveitis.Frontiers in medicine · 2026
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  12. Gut microbial interaction networks control autoimmunity to neuroretina.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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19 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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Reiko HoraiLaboratory of Immunology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States.
Rachel R CaspiLaboratory of Immunology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States.
National Eye Institute · USNational Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Genetic, Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms in Autoimmunity to RetinaZIAEY000184 · NEI · NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE · PI CASPI, RACHEL R. · 2009 to 2025
$51.7M
T-CELL LINES AND CLONES IN UVEITAZ01EY000184 · NEI · NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE · PI CASPI, RACHEL R. · 1985 to 2008
$6.6M
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 EY000184
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Commensal microbes affect all aspects of immune development and homeostasis in health and disease. Increasing evidence points to the notion that the gut commensals impact not only intestinal diseases but also diseases in tissues distant from the gut. Autoimmune or non-infectious uveitis is a sight-threatening intraocular inflammation that affects the neuroretina. It is strongly T cell driven, but the precise causative mechanisms are not fully understood. We and others observed that depletion of gut microbiota in animal models of uveitis attenuated disease. Using a spontaneous model of the disease, we questioned how retina-specific uveitogenic T cells are primed when their cognate antigens are sequestered within the immune privileged eye. The data suggested that gut commensals provide a signal directly through the retina-specific T cell receptor and cause these autoreactive T cells to trigger uveitis. This activation of retina-specific T cells in the gut appears to be independent of the endogenous retinal antigen. Rather, the findings point to the notion that gut microbiota may mimic retinal antigen(s), however, the actual mimic has not yet been identified. Microbiota may also serve as an "adjuvant" providing innate signals that amplify and direct the host immune response for development of uveitis. In contrast, spontaneous uveitis that develops in AIRE

Indexed as

AnimalsAutoimmune DiseasesAutoimmunityGastrointestinal MicrobiomeHumansMicrobiotaReceptors, Antigen, T-CellRetinaT-LymphocytesUveitisReceptors, Antigen, T-Cellautoimmune uveitisautoreactive T cellscommensal microbiotagutretina

Identifiers

PMID30837991
PMCPMC6389708
OpenAlexW2917674194

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