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ReviewInternational journal of immunopathology and pharmacology

Evolution of our view on the IgE molecule role in bronchial asthma and the clinical effect of its modulation by omalizumab: Where do we stand today?

Jakub Novosad, Irena Krčmová

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Review in International journal of immunopathology and pharmacology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 23% 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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Clinical Indicators for Asthma-COPD Overlap: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2022
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  10. Monoclonal Antibodies and Airway Diseases.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020
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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 1 institution in 1 country.

Jakub NovosadInstitute of Clinical Immunology and Allergology, University Hospital Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3290-3821
Irena KrčmováInstitute of Clinical Immunology and Allergology, University Hospital Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.
Charles University · CZ

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bronchial asthma is a heterogeneous disease whose definition and treatment are based on evidence of variable airway obstruction and airway inflammation. Despite the enormous increase in the amount of information on the pathogenesis of this disease, diagnosis is still an unresolved problem, as we still lack sensitive and specific biomarkers. On the other hand, at the turn of the 20th and 21st century, there was a rapid development of therapeutic modalities based on the principle of biological therapy. The first authorized drug matching these characteristics was omalizumab - a monoclonal antibody directed against immunoglobulin E (IgE). It has been used for the treatment of severe forms of bronchial asthma for more than 15 years, which is a sufficient time to acquire ways of its effective use and to assess whether the treatment with omalizumab has met our expectations. However, we continue to discover new and surprising facts about the effects of omalizumab treatment which leads to widening of therapeutic indications. In this work, a basic overview of the very complex role of the IgE molecule in the organism (with a special emphasis on allergic asthma) is discussed, and the most important practical and clinical consequences resulting from its modulation by targeted therapy with omalizumab are summarized.

Indexed as

AnimalsAnti-Allergic AgentsAnti-Asthmatic AgentsAsthmaHumansImmunoglobulin ELungMolecular Targeted TherapyOmalizumabTreatment OutcomeAnti-Allergic AgentsAnti-Asthmatic AgentsImmunoglobulin EOmalizumabbiological therapyIgE receptorsimmunoglobulin Eomalizumab

Identifiers

PMID32689848
PMCPMC7375718
OpenAlexW3045362076

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