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ReviewAllergology international : official journal of the Japanese Society of Allergology2021

How to detect eosinophil ETosis (EETosis) and extracellular traps.

Mineyo Fukuchi, Yui Miyabe, Chikako Furutani, Tomoo Saga, Yuki Moritoki, Takechiyo Yamada, Peter F Weller, Shigeharu Ueki

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Review in Allergology international : official journal of the Japanese Society of Allergology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

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43citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

43 citing papers in PubMed, 80 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Mineyo FukuchiDepartment of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, Akita, Japan.
Yui MiyabeDepartment of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, Akita, Japan; Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Akita University, Akita, Japan.
Chikako FurutaniDepartment of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, Akita, Japan.
Tomoo SagaDepartment of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, Akita, Japan.
Yuki MoritokiDepartment of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, Akita, Japan.
Takechiyo YamadaDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Akita University, Akita, Japan.
Peter F WellerDivisions of Allergy and Inflammation and Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Shigeharu UekiDepartment of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, Akita, Japan. Electronic address: shigeharu.ueki@gmail.com.
Akita University · JPBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · US

Funding

Human Eosinophils: Mechanisms of FunctioningR37AI020241 · NIAID · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI WELLER, PETER F · 2010 to 2019
$4.5M
NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI020241
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Eosinophils are short-lived and comprise only a small population of circulating leukocytes; however, they play surprisingly multifunctional roles in homeostasis and various diseases including allergy and infection. Recent research has shed light on active cytolytic eosinophil cell death that releases eosinophil extracellular traps (EETs) and total cellular contents, namely eosinophil extracellular trap cell death (EETosis). The pathological contribution of EETosis was made more cogent by recent findings that a classical pathological finding of eosinophilic inflammation, that of Charcot-Leyden crystals, is closely associated with EETosis. Currently no gold standard methods to identify EETosis exist, but "an active eosinophil lysis that releases cell-free granules and net-like chromatin structure" appears to be a common feature of EETosis. In this review, we describe several approaches that visualize EETs/EETosis in clinical samples and in vitro studies using isolated human eosinophils. EETs/EETosis can be observed using simple chemical or fluorescence staining, immunostaining, and electron microscopy, although it is noteworthy that visualization of EETs is greatly changed by sample preparation including the extracellular space of EETotic cells and shear flow. Considering the multiple aspects of biological significance, further study into EETs/EETosis is warranted to give a detailed understanding of the roles played in homeostasis and disease pathogenesis.

Indexed as

Cell DeathAnimalsCell DegranulationDisease SusceptibilityEosinophilsExtracellular TrapsHomeostasisHumansCharcot-leyden crystalEETosisEETsEosinophilNETs

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PMID33189567
PMCPMC9333458
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