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ReviewFaculty reviews2020

Phagocytosis and neutrophil extracellular traps.

Frank R DeLeo, Lee-Ann H Allen

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Review in Faculty reviews, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
36citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 15% 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

36 citing papers in PubMed, 43 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. It's a Trap!-Potential of Cathepsins in NET Formation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  10. Neutrophils at the Maternal-Fetal Interface: Agents of Protection or Destruction?American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989) · 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 at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Frank R DeLeoLaboratory of Bacteriology, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, MT, USA.
Lee-Ann H AllenInflammation Program, Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · USUniversity of Iowa · US

Funding

Neutrophil Plasticity and H. pylori PathogenesisR01AI119965 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA · PI ALLEN, LEE-ANN H · 2016 to 2020
$2.1M
BLRD VA I01 BX002108NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI119965
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neutrophils are recruited rapidly to sites of infection in response to host- and/or microbe-derived proinflammatory molecules. At such sites, neutrophils phagocytose microbes and are activated to produce superoxide and other reactive oxygen species (ROS). In addition, neutrophils contain stores of antimicrobial peptides and enzymes that work in concert with ROS to kill ingested microbes. Neutrophils can also release chromosomal DNA bound with antimicrobial peptides and enzymes to form web-like structures known as extracellular traps. Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) have been reported to ensnare and kill microbes and are commonly considered to be an important component of innate host defense. Notably, the formation of NETs is most often reported as a cytolytic process. Whereas intraphagosomal killing of microbes sequesters cytotoxic antimicrobial molecules that would otherwise damage host tissues, the formation of NETs and associated extracellular release of these molecules can contribute to host tissue destruction and disease. Here we compare and contrast phagocytosis and NETs in host defense, with emphasis on recent studies of NETs that ultimately underscore the importance of phagocytosis as the primary means by which neutrophils eliminate microbes.

Indexed as

NETsNeutrophilneutrophil extracellular trapphagocytosis

Identifiers

PMID33659957
PMCPMC7886055
OpenAlexW3113903212

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