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ReviewBiomolecules2021

Alarming Cargo: The Role of Exosomes in Trauma-Induced Inflammation.

Sarah A Walsh, Benjamin W Hoyt, Cassie J Rowe, Devaveena Dey, Thomas A Davis

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Review in Biomolecules, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
25citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 11% 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

25 citing papers in PubMed, 38 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

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sarah A WalshUSU Walter Reed Surgery, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4573-1918
Benjamin W HoytUSU Walter Reed Surgery, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2899-5658
Cassie J RoweUSU Walter Reed Surgery, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.
Devaveena DeyUSU Walter Reed Surgery, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.
Thomas A DavisUSU Walter Reed Surgery, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8076-6545
Henry M. Jackson Foundation · US

Funding

Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs W81XWH1920032
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Severe polytraumatic injury initiates a robust immune response. Broad immune dysfunction in patients with such injuries has been well-documented; however, early biomarkers of immune dysfunction post-injury, which are critical for comprehensive intervention and can predict the clinical course of patients, have not been reported. Current circulating markers such as IL-6 and IL-10 are broad, non-specific, and lag behind the clinical course of patients. General blockade of the inflammatory response is detrimental to patients, as a certain degree of regulated inflammation is critical and necessary following trauma. Exosomes, small membrane-bound extracellular vesicles, found in a variety of biofluids, carry within them a complex functional cargo, comprised of coding and non-coding RNAs, proteins, and metabolites. Composition of circulating exosomal cargo is modulated by changes in the intra- and extracellular microenvironment, thereby serving as a homeostasis sensor. With its extensively documented involvement in immune regulation in multiple pathologies, study of exosomal cargo in polytrauma patients can provide critical insights on trauma-specific, temporal immune dysregulation, with tremendous potential to serve as unique biomarkers and therapeutic targets for timely and precise intervention.

Indexed as

AlarminsCytokinesCytoskeletal ProteinsExosomesHeat-Shock ProteinsHumansInflammationMicroRNAsReperfusion InjuryWounds and InjuriesAlarminsCytokinesCytoskeletal ProteinsHeat-Shock ProteinsMicroRNAsexosomesextracellular vesiclesinflammationintercellular communicationtrauma

Identifiers

PMID33807302
PMCPMC8065643
OpenAlexW3145506831

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