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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2021

The Metabolic Landscape of Thymic T Cell Development

Victoria Sun, Mark Sharpley, Karolina E Kaczor-Urbanowicz, Patrick Chang, Amélie Montel-Hagen, Shawn Lopez, Alexandre Zampieri, Yuhua Zhu, Stéphanie C de Barros, Chintan Parekh and 3 more

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Article 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 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 12% 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

24 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Victoria SunDepartment of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, United States.
Mark SharpleyDepartment of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
Karolina E Kaczor-UrbanowiczDivision of Oral Biology & Medicine, School of Dentistry, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
Patrick ChangDepartment of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, United States.
Amélie Montel-HagenDepartment of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, United States.
Shawn LopezDepartment of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, United States.
Alexandre ZampieriDepartment of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, United States.
Yuhua ZhuDepartment of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, United States.
Stéphanie C de BarrosDepartment of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, United States.
Chintan ParekhCancer and Blood Disease Institute, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
David CaseroDepartment of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, United States.
Utpal BanerjeeMolecular Biology Interdepartmental Program, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
Gay M CrooksDepartment of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, United States.
University of California, Los Angeles · USBroad Center · USCedars-Sinai Medical Center · USChildren's Hospital of Los Angeles · US

Funding

Women's CancersP30CA016042 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI Samuel Wheeler French · 1985 to 2026
$134.5M
UCLA Clinical Translational Science InstituteUL1TR001881 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI ARLEEN F. BROWN, ARASH NAEIM · 2016 to 2026
$118.1M
UCLA Clinical and Translational Science InstituteUL1TR000124 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI DUBINETT, STEVEN M. · 2012 to 2015
$57.0M
UCLA-Caltech Medical Scientist Training ProgramT32GM008042 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI AJIJOLA, OLUJIMI A, DAWSON, DAVID WAYNE · 1985 to 2023
$29.9M
UCLA OLDER AMERICANS INDEPENDENCE CENTERP30AG028748 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI MOORE, ALISON AHERN · 2006 to 2017
$9.8M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000124NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001881NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016042NIA NIH HHS P30 AG028748NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008042
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although metabolic pathways have been shown to control differentiation and activation in peripheral T cells, metabolic studies on thymic T cell development are still lacking, especially in human tissue. In this study, we use transcriptomics and extracellular flux analyses to investigate the metabolic profiles of primary thymic and

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Cell DifferentiationEnergy MetabolismAnimalsBiological EvolutionBiomarkersCell LineComputational BiologyGene Expression ProfilingHematopoietic Stem CellsHumansLymphopoiesisMetabolomeMetabolomicsMiceOrganoidsThymocytesBiomarkershumanin vitrometabolismmouseorganoidT cellthymopoiesisthymus

Identifiers

PMID34394122
PMCPMC8355594
OpenAlexW3184247920

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