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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2019

Sources of Type I Interferons in Infectious Immunity: Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells Not Always in the Driver's Seat.

Shafaqat Ali, Ritu Mann-Nüttel, Anja Schulze, Lisa Richter, Judith Alferink, Stefanie Scheu

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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 103 papers.

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103citing papers in PubMed
6.7field-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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

103 citing papers in PubMed, 166 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Shafaqat AliInstitute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Ritu Mann-NüttelInstitute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Anja SchulzeInstitute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Lisa RichterInstitute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Judith AlferinkCluster of Excellence EXC 1003, Cells in Motion, Münster, Germany.
Stefanie ScheuInstitute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf · DEUniversity of Münster · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Type I Interferons (IFNs) are hallmark cytokines produced in immune responses to all classes of pathogens. Type I IFNs can influence dendritic cell (DC) activation, maturation, migration, and survival, but also directly enhance natural killer (NK) and T/B cell activity, thus orchestrating various innate and adaptive immune effector functions. Therefore, type I IFNs have long been considered essential in the host defense against virus infections. More recently, it has become clear that depending on the type of virus and the course of infection, production of type I IFN can also lead to immunopathology or immunosuppression. Similarly, in bacterial infections type I IFN production is often associated with detrimental effects for the host. Although most cells in the body are thought to be able to produce type I IFN, plasmacytoid DCs (pDCs) have been termed the natural "IFN producing cells" due to their unique molecular adaptations to nucleic acid sensing and ability to produce high amounts of type I IFN. Findings from mouse reporter strains and depletion experiments in

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ImmunityAnimalsCommunicable DiseasesCytokinesDendritic CellsDisease Models, AnimalHost-Pathogen InteractionsHumansImmunity, InnateInterferon Type ICytokinesInterferon Type Iimmune activationimmunopathologyinfectioninterferon producing cellspathogenplasmacytoid dendritic cellstype I interferonvirus

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PMID31031767
PMCPMC6473462
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