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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2019

Dynamic Metabolic State of Tissue Resident CD8 T Cells.

Špela Konjar, Marc Veldhoen

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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 42 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
42citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

42 citing papers in PubMed, 52 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Unique CD8bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  2. Origins of CD8 tissue resident memory.Frontiers in immunology · 2026
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  5. Epidermal and Dermal T Cells Exhibit Distinct Proteomic Signatures.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  13. CD8Nature communications · 2023
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  17. Intestinal tissue-resident T cell activation depends on metabolite availability.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Špela KonjarInstituto de Medicina Molecular, João Lobo Atunes, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
Marc VeldhoenInstituto de Medicina Molecular, João Lobo Atunes, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
University of Lisbon · PT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the past years, there have been significant advances in the understanding of how environmental conditions alone or in conjunction with pathogen invasion affect the metabolism of T cells, thereby influencing their activation, differentiation, and longevity. Detailed insights of the interlinked processes of activation and metabolism can contribute to major advances in immunotherapies. Naive and memory T cells circulate the body. In a quiescent state with low metabolic demands, they predominantly use oxidative phosphorylation for their energy needs. Recognition of cognate antigen combined with costimulatory signals results in a proliferative burst and effector molecule production, requiring rapid release of energy, achieved via dynamically reprogramming metabolic pathways. After activation, most T cells succumb to activation induced cell death, but few differentiate into memory T cells. Of note, some memory T cells permanently occupy tissues without circulating. These, tissue resident T cells are predominantly CD8 T cells, maintained in a metabolic state distinct from naïve and circulating memory CD8 T cells with elements similar to effector CD8 T cells but without undergoing proliferative burst or secreting immune mediators. They continually interact with tissue cells as part of an immune surveillance network, are well-adapted to the tissues they have made their home and where they may encounter different metabolic environments. In this review, we will discuss recent insights in metabolic characteristics of CD8 T cell biology, with emphasis on tissue resident CD8 T cells at the epithelial barriers.

Indexed as

AnimalsCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesCell DifferentiationEpithelial CellsHumansLymphocyte ActivationCD8 T cellintraepithelial lymphocyte (IEL)metabolismT cellstissue resident cells

Identifiers

PMID31379871
PMCPMC6650586
OpenAlexW2953404211

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