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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2021

Treg: A Promising Immunotherapeutic Target in Oral Diseases.

Yujing Zhang, Jihua Guo, Rong Jia

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
34citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed, 48 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Tregs and persistentFrontiers in oral health · 2026
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  11. FOXP3+ T Cells-An Emerging Evidence in Periodontitis Therapeutics.Clinical and experimental dental research · 2025
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  17. CD4PeerJ · 2025
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  20. HA2-FimA DNA Vaccine Treats Experimental Periodontitis.Oral health & preventive dentistry · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yujing ZhangThe State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology (Hubei-MOST) & Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Jihua GuoThe State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology (Hubei-MOST) & Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Rong JiaThe State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology (Hubei-MOST) & Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Wuhan University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the pandemic of COVID-19, maintenance of oral health has increasingly become the main challenge of global health. Various common oral diseases, such as periodontitis and oral cancer, are closely associated with immune disorders in the oral mucosa. Regulatory T cells (Treg) are essential for maintaining self-tolerance and immunosuppression. During the process of periodontitis and apical periodontitis, two typical chronic immune-inflammatory diseases, Treg contributes to maintain host immune homeostasis and minimize tissue damage. In contrast, in the development of oral precancerous lesions and oral cancer, Treg is expected to be depleted or down-regulated to enhance the anti-tumor immune response. Therefore, a deeper understanding of the distribution, function, and regulatory mechanisms of Treg cells may provide a prospect for the immunotherapy of oral diseases. In this review, we summarize the distribution and multiple roles of Treg in different oral diseases and discuss the possible mechanisms involved in Treg cell regulation, hope to provide a reference for future Treg-targeted immunotherapy in the treatment of oral diseases.

Indexed as

AnimalsCOVID-19HumansImmune ToleranceImmunotherapyMouth NeoplasmsPeriodontitisSARS-CoV-2Self ToleranceT-Lymphocytes, Regulatoryimmunotherapyoral canceroral diseasesperiodontitisTreg

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PMID34177907
PMCPMC8222692
OpenAlexW3168058619

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