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ArticleCell metabolism2020

Dietary Fat Makes Germinal Center B Cells Happy.

Shuai Jiang

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Article in Cell metabolism, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
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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

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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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. ODC1 restricts meningeal B cell age-associated-like phenotype and function in multiple sclerosis: A human and experimental study.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  5. Metabolic Swifts Govern Normal and Malignant B Cell Lymphopoiesis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Shuai JiangDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA 71130, USA. Electronic address: sjiang@lsuhsc.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is unclear whether ex vivo bona fide distinct types of lymphocytes require the availability of different nutrients in the extracellular environment to support cell growth upon activation. Weisel et al. (2020) recently identified fatty acids as a predominant energy source for ex vivo bona fide germinal center B cell growth.

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Dietary FatsFatty AcidsB-LymphocytesGerminal CenterGlycolysisDietary FatsFatty Acids

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