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ReviewMediators of inflammation2020

Molecular and Cellular Pathways Contributing to Joint Damage in Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Qinghua Fang, Chun Zhou, Kutty Selva Nandakumar

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In one paragraph

Review in Mediators of inflammation, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 103 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
103citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
19.8field-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

103 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 203 citations in OpenAlex.

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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.

Qinghua FangSMU-KI United Medical Inflammation Center, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Chun ZhouSMU-KI United Medical Inflammation Center, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Kutty Selva NandakumarSMU-KI United Medical Inflammation Center, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7790-8197
Southern Medical University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic autoimmune syndrome associated with several genetic, epigenetic, and environmental factors affecting the articular joints contributing to cartilage and bone damage. Although etiology of this disease is not clear, several immune pathways, involving immune (T cells, B cells, dendritic cells, macrophages, and neutrophils) and nonimmune (fibroblasts and chondrocytes) cells, participate in the secretion of many proinflammatory cytokines, chemokines, proteases (MMPs, ADAMTS), and other matrix lysing enzymes that could disturb the immune balance leading to cartilage and bone damage. The presence of autoantibodies preceding the clinical onset of arthritis and the induction of bone erosion early in the disease course clearly suggest that initiation events damaging the cartilage and bone start very early during the autoimmune phase of the arthritis development. During this process, several signaling molecules (RANKL-RANK, NF-

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AnimalsArthritis, RheumatoidAutoantibodiesChemokinesChondrocytesFibroblastsHumansOsteoclastsAutoantibodiesChemokines

Identifiers

PMID32256192
PMCPMC7103059
OpenAlexW3012559883

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