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ReviewJournal of clinical and translational research2016

The role of TNF-α in rheumatoid arthritis: a focus on regulatory T cells.

Mark Farrugia, Byron Baron

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Review in Journal of clinical and translational research, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 93 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
93citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 27% 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

93 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 155 citations in OpenAlex.

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33 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 1 country.

Mark FarrugiaCenter for Molecular Medicine and Biobanking, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Malta, Msida, Malta.
Byron BaronCenter for Molecular Medicine and Biobanking, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Malta, Msida, Malta.
University of Malta · MT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The autoimmune disorder rheumatoid arthritis (RA) causes chronic inflammation and destruction of joints. T cells are a predominant component of the synovial environment in RA, however the functional role of these cells is not yet fully understood. This is in part due to the fact that the balance and importance of the relation of T

Indexed as

joint inflammationregulatory T cellsrheumatoid arthritisTNF-α therapy

Identifiers

PMID30873466
PMCPMC6410649
OpenAlexW2519293830

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Registered trials

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