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ReviewNature reviews. Immunology2021

The spatio-temporal control of effector T cell migration.

Deborah J Fowell, Minsoo Kim

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Review in Nature reviews. Immunology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 74 papers.

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74citing papers in PubMed
8.1field-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

74 citing papers in PubMed, 142 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Deborah J FowellDavid H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology, Aab Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA. djf273@cornell.edu.
Minsoo KimDavid H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology, Aab Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA.
University of Rochester Medical Center · US

Funding

Tissue regulation of T cell function - Reagents CoreP01AI102851 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI Iwijn De Vlaminck · 2014 to 2026
$26.0M
T cell migration and cardiovascular toxicity in immunotherapyR01AI147362 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI Minsoo Kim, Richard E Waugh · 2019 to 2026
$4.2M
Remodeling of Lymph Node-Derived Cytokine Responses at the Infected Tissue SiteR01AI072690 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI FOWELL, DEBORAH J · 2008 to 2020
$3.6M
ECM/Integrin Tfh positioning cues for support of the germinal center responseR01AI136536 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI FOWELL, DEBORAH J · 2019 to 2023
$2.4M
Remodeling of Lymph Node-Derived Cytokine Responses at the Infected Tissue SiteR37AI072690 · NIAID · CORNELL UNIVERSITY · PI Deborah J Fowell · 2023 to 2026
$1.9M
NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI102851NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI072690NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI136536NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI147362NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI072690
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Effector T cells leave the lymph nodes armed with specialized functional attributes. Their antigenic targets may be located anywhere in the body, posing the ultimate challenge: how to efficiently identify the target tissue, navigate through a complex tissue matrix and, ultimately, locate the immunological insult. Recent advances in real-time in situ imaging of effector T cell migratory behaviour have revealed a great degree of mechanistic plasticity that enables effector T cells to push and squeeze their way through inflamed tissues. This process is shaped by an array of 'stop' and 'go' guidance signals including target antigens, chemokines, integrin ligands and the mechanical cues of the inflamed microenvironment. Effector T cells must sense and interpret these competing signals to correctly position themselves to mediate their effector functions for complete and durable responses in infectious disease and malignancy. Tuning T cell migration therapeutically will require a new understanding of this complex decision-making process.

Indexed as

AnimalsBiomechanical PhenomenaCell MovementComputer SystemsHumansImaging, Three-DimensionalInflammationIntegrinsIntravital MicroscopyLigandsModels, ImmunologicalSignal TransductionSpatio-Temporal AnalysisT-LymphocytesIntegrinsLigands

Identifiers

PMID33627851
PMCPMC9380693
OpenAlexW3129998112

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