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ReviewBiology2020

Osteoarthritis and Toll-Like Receptors: When Innate Immunity Meets Chondrocyte Apoptosis.

Goncalo Barreto, Mikko Manninen, Kari K Eklund

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Review in Biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers.

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58citing papers in PubMed
9.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

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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

58 citing papers in PubMed, 98 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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Goncalo BarretoDepartment of Rheumatology, Helsinki University and Helsinki University Hospital, 00014 Helsinki, Finland.ORCID 0000-0003-4444-9208
Mikko ManninenOrton Research Institute, 00280 Helsinki, Finland.
Kari K EklundDepartment of Rheumatology, Helsinki University and Helsinki University Hospital, 00014 Helsinki, Finland.
University of Helsinki · FIInvalidisäätiö · FI

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Osteoarthritis (OA) has long been viewed as a degenerative disease of cartilage, but accumulating evidence indicates that inflammation has a critical role in its pathogenesis. In particular, chondrocyte-mediated inflammatory responses triggered by the activation of innate immune receptors by alarmins (also known as danger signals) are thought to be involved. Thus, toll-like receptors (TLRs) and their signaling pathways are of particular interest. Recent reports suggest that among the TLR-induced innate immune responses, apoptosis is one of the critical events. Apoptosis is of particular importance, given that chondrocyte death is a dominant feature in OA. This review focuses on the role of TLR signaling in chondrocytes and the role of TLR activation in chondrocyte apoptosis. The functional relevance of TLR and TLR-triggered apoptosis in OA are discussed as well as their relevance as candidates for novel disease-modifying OA drugs (DMOADs).

Indexed as

apoptosiscartilagechondrocytesinnate immunityosteoarthritistoll-like receptors

Identifiers

PMID32235418
PMCPMC7235883
OpenAlexW3013824638

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