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ReviewLancet (London, England)2020

Intersection of biology and therapeutics: type 2 targeted therapeutics for adult asthma.

Michael C Peters, Sally E Wenzel

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Review in Lancet (London, England), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 79 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
79citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
13.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

79 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 148 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. HuR Regulates GATA3-Driven Type 2 Inflammation in CD4bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  16. Pulmonary-delivered Anticalin Jagged-1 antagonists reduce experimental airway mucus hyperproduction and obstruction.American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology · 2025
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19 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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Michael C PetersDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. Electronic address: michael.peters@ucsf.edu.
Sally E WenzelDepartment of Environmental and Occupational Health, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
University of California System · USUniversity of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

Project 2 Impact of Innate and Adaptive Immunity At the Airway Epithelium in Severe AsthmaP01AI106684 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Anuradha Ray · 2015 to 2026
$18.9M
UCSF Nutrition Obesity Research CenterP30DK098722 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI CHRISTIAN VAISSE · 2015 to 2026
$14.6M
Implications and Stability of Clinical and Molecular Phenotypes of Severe AsthmaU10HL109152 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI WENZEL, SALLY E · 2011 to 2016
$3.9M
Type-2 or Not Type-2: That is the (Therapeutic) QuestionUG1HL139098 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI WENZEL, SALLY E · 2017 to 2022
$2.4M
Toward PanOmic and Personalized Association Study of Complex Diseases - A New Statistical and Computational Paradigm for Personalized MedicineR01GM114311 · NIGMS · CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY · PI WENZEL, SALLY E, WU, WEI · 2015 to 2018
$2.2M
Uncovering Biologic Mechanisms of Severe AsthmaK23HL138303 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI PETERS, MICHAEL · 2017 to 2020
$709k
NHLBI NIH HHS K23 HL138303NHLBI NIH HHS U10 HL109152NHLBI NIH HHS UG1 HL139098NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI106684NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK098722NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM114311NIH HHS 5UG1HL139098-02NIH HHS AI106684-01A1NIH HHS GM114311-01A1NIH HHS HL109152-05
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Asthma is a disease of reversible airflow obstruction characterised clinically by wheezing, shortness of breath, and coughing. Increases in airway type 2 cytokine activity, including interleukin-4 (IL-4), IL-5, and IL-13, are now established biological mechanisms in asthma. Inhaled corticosteroids have been the foundation for asthma treatment, in a large part because they decrease airway type 2 inflammation. However, inhaled or systemic corticosteroids are ineffective treatments in many patients with asthma and few treatment options exist for patients with steroid resistant asthma. Although mechanisms for corticosteroid refractory asthma are likely to be numerous, the development of a new class of biologic agents that target airway type 2 inflammation has provided a new model for treating some patients with corticosteroid refractory asthma. The objective of this Therapeutic paper is to summarise the new type 2 therapeutics, with an emphasis on the biological rationale and clinical efficacy of this new class of asthma therapeutics.

Indexed as

AdultAnti-Asthmatic AgentsAntibodies, Monoclonal, HumanizedAsthmaBiological ProductsBiomarkersClinical Trials, Phase III as TopicCytokinesEosinophilsForecastingHumansIndoleacetic AcidsInterleukin-4Interleukin-5OmalizumabPyridinesAnti-Asthmatic AgentsAntibodies, Monoclonal, HumanizedBiological ProductsBiomarkersCytokinesfevipiprantIL4 protein, humanIndoleacetic AcidsInterleukin-4Interleukin-5OmalizumabPyridines

Identifiers

PMID32007172
PMCPMC8522504
OpenAlexW3003443882

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