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ReviewF1000Research2019

Understanding the role of neutrophils in chronic inflammatory airway disease.

Alice E Jasper, William J McIver, Elizabeth Sapey, Georgia M Walton

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Review in F1000Research, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 124 papers.

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124citing papers in PubMed
14.0field-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

124 citing papers in PubMed, 177 citations in OpenAlex.

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  20. Low TET1 Expression Levels in COPD Are Associated with Airway and Blood Neutrophilia.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alice E JasperBirmingham Acute Care Research, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, University of Birmingham, UK, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.
William J McIverBirmingham Acute Care Research, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, University of Birmingham, UK, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.
Elizabeth SapeyBirmingham Acute Care Research, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, University of Birmingham, UK, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.
Georgia M WaltonBirmingham Acute Care Research, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, University of Birmingham, UK, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6636-2077
University of Birmingham · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/L008335/1Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Airway neutrophilia is a common feature of many chronic inflammatory lung diseases and is associated with disease progression, often regardless of the initiating cause. Neutrophils and their products are thought to be key mediators of the inflammatory changes in the airways of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and have been shown to cause many of the pathological features associated with disease, including emphysema and mucus hypersecretion. Patients with COPD also have high rates of bacterial colonisation and recurrent infective exacerbations, suggesting that neutrophil host defence mechanisms are impaired, a concept supported by studies showing alterations to neutrophil migration, degranulation and reactive oxygen species production in cells isolated from patients with COPD. Although the role of neutrophils is best described in COPD, many of the pathological features of this disease are not unique to COPD and also feature in other chronic inflammatory airway diseases, including asthma, cystic fibrosis, alpha-1 anti-trypsin deficiency, and bronchiectasis. There is increasing evidence for immune cell dysfunction contributing to inflammation in many of these diseases, focusing interest on the neutrophil as a key driver of pulmonary inflammation and a potential therapeutic target than spans diseases. This review discusses the evidence for neutrophilic involvement in COPD and also considers their roles in alpha-1 anti-trypsin deficiency, bronchiectasis, asthma, and cystic fibrosis. We provide an in-depth assessment of the role of the neutrophil in each of these conditions, exploring recent advances in understanding, and finally discussing the possibility of common mechanisms across diseases.

Indexed as

alpha 1-Antitrypsin DeficiencyAsthmaBronchiectasisChronic DiseaseCystic FibrosisHumansNeutrophilsPulmonary Disease, Chronic ObstructiveAlpha-1 Anti-TrypsinAsthmaBronchiectasisCOPDCystic FibrosisInflammationNeutrophil

Identifiers

PMID31069060
PMCPMC6489989
OpenAlexW2942162012

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