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ReviewPediatric research2021

The role of integrins in inflammation and angiogenesis.

Olachi J Mezu-Ndubuisi, Akhil Maheshwari

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Review in Pediatric research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 235 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
235citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
21.8field-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

235 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 369 citations in OpenAlex.

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  19. The emerging role of integrin signaling in pulmonary vascular disease.American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology · 2026
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175 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Olachi J Mezu-NdubuisiDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA. olachimezu@pediatrics.wisc.edu.
Akhil MaheshwariDepartment of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Johns Hopkins University · USUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

Red Cell Transfusion-associated Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Premature InfantsR01HL124078 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA · PI KRISHNAN, MOHAN KUMAR · 2015 to 2018
$1.5M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL124078
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Integrins are heterodimeric transmembrane cell adhesion molecules made up of alpha (α) and beta (β) subunits arranged in numerous dimeric pairings. These complexes have varying affinities to extracellular ligands. Integrins regulate cellular growth, proliferation, migration, signaling, and cytokine activation and release and thereby play important roles in cell proliferation and migration, apoptosis, tissue repair, as well as in all processes critical to inflammation, infection, and angiogenesis. This review presents current evidence from human and animal studies on integrin structure and molecular signaling, with particular emphasis on signal transduction in infants. We have included evidence from our own laboratory studies and from an extensive literature search in databases PubMed, EMBASE, Scopus, and the electronic archives of abstracts presented at the annual meetings of the Pediatric Academic Societies. To avoid bias in identification of existing studies, key words were short-listed prior to the actual search both from anecdotal experience and from PubMed's Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) thesaurus. IMPACT: Integrins are a family of ubiquitous αβ heterodimeric receptors that interact with numerous ligands in physiology and disease. Integrins play a key role in cell proliferation, tissue repair, inflammation, infection, and angiogenesis. This review summarizes current evidence from human and animal studies on integrin structure and molecular signaling and promising role in diseases of inflammation, infection, and angiogenesis in infants. This review shows that integrin receptors and ligands are novel therapeutic targets of clinical interest and hold promise as novel therapeutic targets in the management of several neonatal diseases.

Indexed as

Neovascularization, PathologicAnimalsChildHumansInfant, NewbornInfant, PrematureInflammationIntegrinsLigandsProtein BindingIntegrinsLigands

Identifiers

PMID33027803
PMCPMC8249239
OpenAlexW3091772497

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