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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2021

Autophagy: A Friend or Foe in Allergic Asthma?

Efthymia Theofani, Georgina Xanthou

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
27citing papers in PubMed
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

27 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
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  3. Association of genetic variants in the autophagy gene ATG4B with asthma.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026
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  6. Crosstalk Between Allergic Inflammation and Autophagy.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  7. Programmed cell death in triple-negative breast cancer.Cellular & molecular biology letters · 2025
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  15. Autophagy in chronic rhinosinusitis with or without nasal polyps.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024
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  19. Fermented and Aged Ginseng Sprouts (Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Efthymia TheofaniCellular Immunology Laboratory, Center for Basic Research, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, 11547 Athens, Greece.
Georgina XanthouCellular Immunology Laboratory, Center for Basic Research, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, 11547 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-7944-2343
Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens · GRNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GR

Funding

General Secretariat for Research and Technology naHellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation 3303Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (fellowship number: 330)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Autophagy is a major self-degradative process through which cytoplasmic material, including damaged organelles and proteins, are delivered and degraded in the lysosome. Autophagy represents a dynamic recycling system that produces new building blocks and energy, essential for cellular renovation, physiology, and homeostasis. Principal autophagy triggers include starvation, pathogens, and stress. Autophagy plays also a pivotal role in immune response regulation, including immune cell differentiation, antigen presentation and the generation of T effector responses, the development of protective immunity against pathogens, and the coordination of immunometabolic signals. A plethora of studies propose that both impaired and overactive autophagic processes contribute to the pathogenesis of human disorders, including infections, cancer, atherosclerosis, autoimmune and neurodegenerative diseases. Autophagy has been also implicated in the development and progression of allergen-driven airway inflammation and remodeling. Here, we provide an overview of recent studies pertinent to the biology of autophagy and molecular pathways controlling its activation, we discuss autophagy-mediated beneficial and detrimental effects in animal models of allergic diseases and illuminate new advances on the role of autophagy in the pathogenesis of human asthma. We conclude contemplating the potential of targeting autophagy as a novel therapeutic approach for the management of allergic responses and linked asthmatic disease.

Indexed as

AutophagyAnimalsAsthmaHumansHypersensitivityInflammationModels, BiologicalTranscription, Geneticairway inflammationasthmaautophagy

Identifiers

PMID34204710
PMCPMC8231495
OpenAlexW3168556053

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