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ReviewiScience2020

The Whole Body as the System in Systems Immunology.

Maya M L Poon, Donna L Farber

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Review in iScience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.

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41citing 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

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

41 citing papers in PubMed.

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  10. PULSAR: a Foundation Model for Multi-scale and Multi-cellular Biology.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  16. Topographical variations in the skin barrier and their role in disease pathogenesis.Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV · 2025
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  18. Transcriptome Complexity Disentangled: A Regulatory Molecules Approach.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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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.

Maya M L PoonColumbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA.
Donna L FarberColumbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA.

Funding

Transcriptomics and Repertoire ProfilingP01AI106697 · NIAID · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Donna L. Farber · 2013 to 2026
$31.3M
Viral Assays CoreU19AI128949 · NIAID · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Donna L. Farber, Peter Alan Sims · 2017 to 2026
$26.4M
Immunobiology and alveolar physiology of the aging lungU01HL145547 · NHLBI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI BHATTACHARYA, JAHAR, FARBER, DONNA L. · 2019 to 2022
$2.6M
NHLBI NIH HHS U01 HL145547NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI106697NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI128949
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The human immune system is comprised of a diverse and interactive network of specialized cells localized in diverse tissues throughout the body, where they mediate protection against pathogens and environmental insults while maintaining tissue homeostasis. Although much of our understanding of human immunology has derived from studies of peripheral blood, recent work utilizing human tissue resources and innovative computational methods have employed a whole-body, systems-based approach, revealing tremendous complexity and heterogeneity of the immune system within individuals and across the population. In this review, we discuss how tissue localization, developmental and age-associated changes, and conditions of health and disease shape the immune response, as well as how improved understanding of interindividual and tissue-specific immunity can be leveraged for developing targeted therapeutics.

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Complex System BiologyImmunology

Identifiers

PMID32920485
PMCPMC7491152

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