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Pathogenic and Therapeutic Relevance of JAK/STAT Signaling in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Integration of Distinct Inflammatory Pathways and the Prospect of Their Inhibition with an Oral Agent.

Alessia Alunno, Ivan Padjen, Antonis Fanouriakis, Dimitrios T Boumpas

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Review in Cells, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 77 papers.

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77citing papers in PubMed
8.1field-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

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

77 citing papers in PubMed, 135 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

4 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Alessia AlunnoRheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Ospedale S.M. della Misericordia, Edificio C, 5° piano, Piazzale Menghini 1, 06129 S. Andrea delle Fratte, Perugia, Italy. alessia.alunno82@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-1105-5640
Ivan PadjenDivision of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Center Zagreb and University of Zagreb School of Medicine, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.ORCID 0000-0002-9249-9325
Antonis FanouriakisRheumatology and Clinical Immunology Unit, 4th Department of Internal Medicine, "Attikon" University Hospital, 12462 Athens, Greece.
Dimitrios T BoumpasRheumatology and Clinical Immunology Unit, 4th Department of Internal Medicine, "Attikon" University Hospital, 12462 Athens, Greece.
General Hospital Asklepieio Voulas · GRNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GRUniversity Hospital Centre Zagreb · HRUniversity of Perugia · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Four Janus kinases (JAKs) (JAK1, JAK2, JAK3, TYK2) and seven signal transducers and activators of transcription (STATs) (STAT1, STAT2, STAT3, STAT4, STAT5A, STAT5B, STAT6) mediate the signal transduction of more than 50 cytokines and growth factors in many different cell types. Located intracellularly and downstream of cytokine receptors, JAKs integrate and balance the actions of various signaling pathways. With distinct panels of STAT-sensitive genes in different tissues, this highly heterogeneous system has broad in vivo functions playing a crucial role in the immune system. Thus, the JAK/STAT pathway is critical for resisting infection, maintaining immune tolerance, and enforcing barrier functions and immune surveillance against cancer. Breakdowns of this system and/or increased signal transduction may lead to autoimmunity and other diseases. Accordingly, the recent development and approval of the first small synthetic molecules targeting JAK molecules have opened new therapeutic avenues of potentially broad therapeutic relevance. Extensive data are now available regarding the JAK/STAT pathway in rheumatoid arthritis. Dysregulation of the cytokines is also a hallmark of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and targeting the JAK/STAT proteins allows simultaneous suppression of multiple cytokines. Evidence from in vitro studies and animal models supports a pivotal role also in the pathogenesis of cutaneous lupus and SLE. This has important therapeutic implications, given the current paucity of targeted therapies especially in the latter. Herein, we summarize the currently available literature in experimental SLE, which has led to the recent promising Phase II clinical trial of a JAK inhibitor.

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Molecular Targeted TherapyAnimalsAzetidinesCells, CulturedClinical Trials, Phase II as TopicHumansJanus KinasesLupus Erythematosus, SystemicMiceProtein Kinase InhibitorsPurinesPyrazolesSignal TransductionSTAT Transcription FactorsSulfonamidesAzetidinesbaricitinibJanus KinasesProtein Kinase InhibitorsPurinesPyrazolesSTAT Transcription FactorsSulfonamidesbaricitinibJanus kinaseprotein tyrosine kinasesSTATsystemic lupus erythematosus

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PMID31443172
PMCPMC6721755
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