Evidence map›Paper›PMID 31820826›Full record

ReviewImmunology2020

Circadian rhythms in innate immunity and stress responses.

Matthew Baxter, David W Ray

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Review in Immunology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 55 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
55citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

55 citing papers in PubMed, 86 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Circadian clock and cancer.Military Medical Research · 2026
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  10. Chronic CRYPTOCHROME deficiency enhances cell-intrinsic antiviral defences.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  11. Time to start taking time seriously: how to investigate unexpected biological rhythms within infectious disease research.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  13. Nuclear receptor protein: REV-ERB.Northern clinics of Istanbul · 2025
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  19. The Relationship between Circadian Rhythm and Cancer Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Matthew BaxterOxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3612-2574
David W RayOxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4739-6773
John Radcliffe Hospital · GBUniversity of Oxford · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/L010240/1Medical Research Council MR/P023576/1Medical Research Council MR/P023576/2Wellcome Trust 107849/Z/15/ZWellcome Trust 107851/Z/15/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Circadian clocks are a common feature of life on our planet, allowing physiology and behaviour to be adapted to recurrent environmental fluctuation. There is now compelling evidence that disturbance of circadian coherence can severely undermine mental and physical health, as well as exacerbate pre-existing pathology. Common molecular design principles underpin the generation of cellular circadian rhythms across the kingdoms, and in animals, the genetic components are extremely well conserved. In mammals, the circadian timing mechanism is present in most cell types and establishes local cycles of gene expression and metabolic activity. These distributed tissue clocks are normally synchronized by a central pacemaker, the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN), located in the hypothalamus. Nevertheless, most clocks of the body remain responsive to non-SCN-derived hormonal and metabolic cues (for example, re-alignment of liver clocks to altered meal patterning). It has been demonstrated that the clock is an influential regulator of energy metabolism, allowing key pathways to be tuned across the 24-hr cycle as metabolic requirements fluctuate. Furthermore, clock components, including Cryptochrome and Rev-Erb proteins, have been identified as essential modulators of the innate immune system and inflammatory responses. Studies have also revealed that these proteins regulate glucocorticoid receptor function, a major drug target and crucial regulator of inflammation and metabolism.

Indexed as

AnimalsCircadian RhythmCryptochromesHormonesHumansImmunity, InnateInflammationNuclear Receptor Subfamily 1, Group D, Member 1Stress, PhysiologicalSuprachiasmatic NucleusCryptochromesHormonesNuclear Receptor Subfamily 1, Group D, Member 1circadianglucocorticoidimmunityinflammationinnate

Identifiers

PMID31820826
PMCPMC7692257
OpenAlexW2994769875

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