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ArticleThe Journal of experimental medicine2019

IL-2 production by self-reactive CD4 thymocytes scales regulatory T cell generation in the thymus.

Saskia Hemmers, Michail Schizas, Elham Azizi, Stanislav Dikiy, Yi Zhong, Yongqiang Feng, Grégoire Altan-Bonnet, Alexander Y Rudensky

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Article in The Journal of experimental medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 64 papers.

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64citing papers in PubMed
4.0field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

64 citing papers in PubMed, 90 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Development of αβ and γδ T Cells in the Thymus and Methods of Analysis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  9. Dynamics and variegation in the Treg response to Interleukin-2.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  10. Cytotoxic T Cells: Kill, Memorize, and Mask to Maintain Immune Homeostasis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  12. Sterile production of interferons in the thymus.Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) · 2025
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  15. The partitioning of TCR repertoires by thymic selection.The Journal of experimental medicine · 2024
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  17. Lymphotoxin limits Foxp3Nature communications · 2024
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4 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

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Saskia HemmersHoward Hughes Medical Institute and Immunology Program at Sloan Kettering Institute, and Ludwig Center for Cancer Immunotherapy, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY.ORCID 0000-0002-5575-0509
Michail SchizasHoward Hughes Medical Institute and Immunology Program at Sloan Kettering Institute, and Ludwig Center for Cancer Immunotherapy, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY.
Elham AziziProgram for Computational and Systems Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY.ORCID 0000-0001-5059-6971
Stanislav DikiyHoward Hughes Medical Institute and Immunology Program at Sloan Kettering Institute, and Ludwig Center for Cancer Immunotherapy, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY.ORCID 0000-0002-8287-6561
Yi ZhongHoward Hughes Medical Institute and Immunology Program at Sloan Kettering Institute, and Ludwig Center for Cancer Immunotherapy, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY.
Yongqiang FengHoward Hughes Medical Institute and Immunology Program at Sloan Kettering Institute, and Ludwig Center for Cancer Immunotherapy, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY.
Grégoire Altan-BonnetImmunodynamics Group, Cancer and Inflammation Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.ORCID 0000-0002-7283-3162
Alexander Y RudenskyHoward Hughes Medical Institute and Immunology Program at Sloan Kettering Institute, and Ludwig Center for Cancer Immunotherapy, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY rudenska@mskcc.org.ORCID 0000-0003-1280-2898
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · USNational Institutes of Health · US

Funding

X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI Nicholas D Socci · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
Self Peptides Bound to MHC Class II In T Cell SelectionR37AI034206 · NIAID · SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH · PI RUDENSKY, ALEXANDER Y · 2009 to 2018
$4.8M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI034206
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Regulatory T (T reg) cells, a specialized subset of CD4

Indexed as

AnimalsCell DifferentiationGene ExpressionImmune SystemInterleukin-2Mice, KnockoutMice, TransgenicSignal TransductionThymocytesThymus GlandT-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryInterleukin-2

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PMID31434685
PMCPMC6829602
OpenAlexW2969344009

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