Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34220809›Full record

ReviewFrontiers in immunology2021

A Tale of Two Immune Cells in Rheumatoid Arthritis: The Crosstalk Between Macrophages and T Cells in the Synovium.

Jiajie Tu, Wei Huang, Weiwei Zhang, Jiawei Mei, Chen Zhu

Open access · goldAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

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 62 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
62citing papers in PubMed
11.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

62 citing papers in PubMed, 95 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Review
  5. Review
  6. Article
  7. Cleavage-Resistant CYLD Protects Against Autoimmune Hepatitis.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
    Article
  8. Review
  9. Review
  10. Review
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Macrophages in Hematopoiesis and Related Blood Diseases.Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics · 2025
    Review
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Article
  17. Article
  18. Article
  19. Review
  20. Review

2 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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jiajie TuInstitute of Clinical Pharmacology, Anhui Medical University, Key Laboratory of Anti-Inflammatory and Immune Medicine, Ministry of Education, Anhui Collaborative Innovation Center of Anti-Inflammatory and Immune Medicine, Hefei, China.
Wei HuangDepartment of Orthopaedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
Weiwei ZhangDepartments of Geriatrics, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
Jiawei MeiDepartment of Orthopaedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
Chen ZhuDepartment of Orthopaedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
University of Science and Technology of China · CNShenzhen Second People's Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease. Joint inflammation of RA is closely related to infiltration of immune cells, synovium hyperplasia, and superfluous secretion of proinflammatory cytokines, which lead to cartilage degradation and bone erosion. The joint synovium of RA patients contains a variety of immune cellular types, among which monocytes/macrophages and T cells are two essential cellular components. Monocytes/macrophages can recruit and promote the differentiation of T cells into inflammatory phenotypes in RA synovium. Similarly, different subtypes of T cells can recruit monocytes/macrophages and promote osteoblast differentiation and production of inflammatory cytokines. In this review, we will discuss how T cell-monocyte/macrophage interactions promote the development of RA, which will provide new perspectives on RA pathogenesis and the development of targeted therapy.

Indexed as

AnimalsArthritis, RheumatoidBiomarkersCell CommunicationDisease SusceptibilityHumansImmunomodulationMacrophagesSynovial MembraneT-LymphocytesT-Lymphocyte SubsetsBiomarkersmacrophagepathogenesisRAtargeted therapyT cells

Identifiers

PMID34220809
PMCPMC8248486
OpenAlexW3173326794

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.