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ReviewBMC rheumatology2021

The PD-1:PD-L1 axis in Inflammatory Arthritis.

Mary Canavan, Achilleas Floudas, Douglas J Veale, Ursula Fearon

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In one paragraph

Review in BMC rheumatology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
33citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.4field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 77 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mary CanavanDepartment of Molecular Rheumatology, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. mary.canavan3@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2310-2563
Achilleas FloudasDepartment of Molecular Rheumatology, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Douglas J VealeEULAR Centre of Excellence, Centre for Arthritis & Rheumatic Diseases, St. Vincent's University Hospital, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Ursula FearonDepartment of Molecular Rheumatology, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.
University College Dublin · IETrinity College Dublin · IE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The activation of antigen specific T cells during an immune response is a tightly regulated process at the level of both costimulatory and coinhibitory receptors. One such coinhibitory receptor or checkpoint inhibitor which has received much attention in the field of oncology is the programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1). Blockade of PD-1 or its ligand PD-L1 has proven successful in the treatment of a wide variety of cancers, therefore highlighting an important role for this pathway in anti-tumour immune responses. However, a caveat of PD-1 therapy and boosting anti-tumour immune responses is the development of self-reactive T cells which can lead to the induction of various autoimmune or inflammatory diseases, referred to as immune- related adverse events (irAEs). The emergence of rheumatological irAEs such as Inflammatory Arthritis (IA) in recent years has highlighted the importance of PD-1 in maintaining self-tolerance. Furthermore, the emergence of rheumatology related irAEs raises an important question as to how defects in this pathway can contribute to spontaneous rheumatological disease. In this review, we describe the biological distribution, function and regulation of the PD-1 pathway, its potential role in IA and irAE related IA.

Indexed as

Adverse eventsCheckpoint inhibitorsPD-1Psoriatic arthritisRheumatoid arthritis

Identifiers

PMID33423684
PMCPMC7798255
OpenAlexW3120507817

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