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ReviewAdvances in experimental medicine and biology2019

Inflammatory Ocular Diseases and Sphingolipid Signaling.

Richard Grambergs, Koushik Mondal, Nawajes Mandal

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Review in Advances in experimental medicine and biology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Using the TCGA Database to Predict and Analyze Tumor Microenvironment Genes Related to Poor Prognosis of Colon Cancer.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2020
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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Richard GrambergsDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, UTHSC, Memphis, TN, USA.
Koushik MondalDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, UTHSC, Memphis, TN, USA.
Nawajes MandalDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, UTHSC, Memphis, TN, USA. nmandal@uthsc.edu.
University of Tennessee Health Science Center · US

Funding

P30-CENTER CORE GRANT FOR VISION RESEARCHP30EY021725 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HLTH SCIENCES CTR · PI Michelle C Callegan, MICHAEL H ELLIOTT · 2011 to 2026
$10.5M
Sphingolipid Metabolism and Signaling in the RetinaR01EY022071 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCI CTR · PI MANDAL, NAWAJES · 2012 to 2016
$1.8M
Sphingolipid signaling in corneal wound healing and fibrosisR21EY025256 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HLTH SCIENCES CTR · PI KARAMICHOS, DIMITRIOS, MANDAL, NAWAJES · 2015 to 2016
$429k
NEI NIH HHS P30 EY021725NEI NIH HHS R01 EY022071NEI NIH HHS R21 EY025256
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inflammation is a powerful immune countermeasure to tissue damage and infection. The inflammatory response is complex and requires the involvement of myriad signaling pathways and metabolic processes, all governed by a multitude of regulatory systems. Although inflammation is a vital defense against tissue injury and a necessary step in tissue healing, the mechanisms which modulate the initiation, intensity, and duration of this innate immune response can malfunction and result in inappropriate or out-of-control inflammation, even in the absence of an appropriate stimulus. Though the human eye exists in an immune-privileged microenvironment, it is not spared from this. The eye is neither devoid of immune cells nor is it fully sequestered from systemic immune responses, and is therefore fully capable of ruining itself through localized inflammatory dysfunction and systemic inflammatory disease (Taylor AW, Front Immunol 7:37, 2016; Zhou R, Caspi RR, Biol Rep 2, 2010). In fact, a wide range of ocular inflammatory diseases exist and are major causes of blindness in humans. Advances in the understanding of inflammatory processes have revealed new key pathways and molecular factors involved in the mechanisms of inflammation. Lipids and sphingolipids are increasingly being recognized as having important signaling roles in the pathophysiology of ocular inflammatory diseases. What follows below is a discussion of fundamental inflammatory processes, the place of sphingolipids as mediators of said processes, brief descriptions of major inflammatory ocular diseases, and new findings implicating sphingolipids in their pathogenesis.

Indexed as

Eye DiseasesInflammationSignal TransductionEyeHumansSphingolipidsSphingolipidsGlaucomaGlucosylceramideInnate immunityOcular inflammtionS1P receptorsSphingolipid signalingSphingosine 1-phosphateUveitis

Identifiers

PMID31502203
PMCPMC8655850
OpenAlexW2972858386

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