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ReviewCirculation research2021

Immune Cells and Immunotherapy for Cardiac Injury and Repair.

Joel G Rurik, Haig Aghajanian, Jonathan A Epstein

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Review in Circulation research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 155 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
155citing papers in PubMed
38.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

155 citing papers in PubMed, 258 citations in OpenAlex.

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95 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Joel G RurikDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, Department of Medicine, Penn Cardiovascular Institute, Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Haig AghajanianDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, Department of Medicine, Penn Cardiovascular Institute, Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Jonathan A EpsteinDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, Department of Medicine, Penn Cardiovascular Institute, Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
University of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Training Program in Cardiovascular Biology and MedicineT32HL007843 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI THOMAS P. CAPPOLA, Sharlene M Day · 1996 to 2026
$11.0M
Cardiac lineage determination and nuclear architectureR35HL140018 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI EPSTEIN, JONATHAN A. · 2018 to 2024
$6.8M
NHLBI NIH HHS R35 HL140018NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL007843
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cardiac injury remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Despite significant advances, a full understanding of why the heart fails to fully recover function after acute injury, and why progressive heart failure frequently ensues, remains elusive. No therapeutics, short of heart transplantation, have emerged to reliably halt or reverse the inexorable progression of heart failure in the majority of patients once it has become clinically evident. To date, most pharmacological interventions have focused on modifying hemodynamics (reducing afterload, controlling blood pressure and blood volume) or on modifying cardiac myocyte function. However, important contributions of the immune system to normal cardiac function and the response to injury have recently emerged as exciting areas of investigation. Therapeutic interventions aimed at harnessing the power of immune cells hold promise for new treatment avenues for cardiac disease. Here, we review the immune response to heart injury, its contribution to cardiac fibrosis, and the potential of immune modifying therapies to affect cardiac repair.

Indexed as

Adaptive ImmunityBioengineeringB-LymphocytesCytokinesDisease ProgressionEosinophilsFibroblastsFibrosisHeart FailureHeart InjuriesHumansImmunotherapyImmunotherapy, AdoptiveMacrophagesMast CellsMonocytesCytokinesReceptors, Chimeric Antigenfibrosisheart diseaseimmunologyimmunotherapy

Identifiers

PMID34043424
PMCPMC8171813
OpenAlexW3164268445

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Registered trials

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