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ReviewThe Journal of allergy and clinical immunology2019

Pruritus in allergy and immunology.

Ting-Lin B Yang, Brian S Kim

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Review in The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
56citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
11.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

56 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 109 citations in OpenAlex.

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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.

Ting-Lin B YangCenter for the Study of Itch, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Mo; Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Mo.
Brian S KimCenter for the Study of Itch, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Mo; Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Mo; Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Mo; Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Mo. Electronic address: briankim@wustl.edu.
Washington University in St. Louis · US

Funding

Neuroimmune Regulation of Atopic DermatitisR01AR070116 · NIAMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI KIM, BRIAN · 2016 to 2021
$3.8M
Innate Immune Regulation of Skin InflammationK08AR065577 · NIAMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI KIM, BRIAN · 2014 to 2018
$711k
NIAMS NIH HHS K08 AR065577NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR070116
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although evolutionarily conserved to expel ectoparasites and aid in the clearance of toxins and noxious environmental stimuli from the host, the type 2 immune response can become pathologic in the setting of a variety of allergic disorders. Itch can be a behavioral extension of type 2 immunity by evoking scratching and, in the setting of disease, can become chronic and thus highly pathologic as well. Classically, our understanding of itch mechanisms has centered around the canonical IgE-mast cell-histamine axis. However, therapies aimed at blocking the histaminergic itch pathway have been largely ineffective, suggesting the existence of nonhistaminergic itch pathways. Indeed, recent advances in itch biology have provided critical new insight into a variety of novel therapeutic avenues for chronic itch in the setting of a number of allergic disorders. Here we highlight how these new developments will likely inform the problem of pruritus in a variety of well-established and emerging conditions in the field of allergy.

Indexed as

AnimalsHistamineHumansHypersensitivityImmunoglobulin EMast CellsPruritusHistamineImmunoglobulin EAllergic contact dermatitisatopic dermatitiscytokineeczemahistamineitchJanus kinaseMas-related G protein–coupled receptormast cellneuroimmunologyprurigo nodularispruritus

Identifiers

PMID31395149
PMCPMC6690370
OpenAlexW2966029164

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