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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2021

Schrödinger's T Cells: Molecular Insights Into Stemness and Exhaustion.

Nancy M Gonzalez, Dawei Zou, Andy Gu, Wenhao Chen

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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 22 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
22citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

22 citing papers in PubMed, 48 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nancy M GonzalezImmunobiology & Transplant Science Center, Department of Surgery, Houston Methodist Research Institute & Institute for Academic Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, United States.
Dawei ZouImmunobiology & Transplant Science Center, Department of Surgery, Houston Methodist Research Institute & Institute for Academic Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, United States.
Andy GuImmunobiology & Transplant Science Center, Department of Surgery, Houston Methodist Research Institute & Institute for Academic Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, United States.
Wenhao ChenImmunobiology & Transplant Science Center, Department of Surgery, Houston Methodist Research Institute & Institute for Academic Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, United States.
Houston Methodist · USTexas A&M Health Science Center · US

Funding

IRF4-dependent T-cell effector programs in governing transplant outcomesR01AI132492 · NIAID · METHODIST HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI CHEN, WENHAO · 2018 to 2022
$2.0M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI132492
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

T cell stemness and exhaustion coexist as two key contrasting phenomena during chronic antigen stimulation, such as infection, transplant, cancer, and autoimmunity. T cell exhaustion refers to the progressive loss of effector function caused by chronic antigen exposure. Exhausted T (T

Indexed as

Cell DifferentiationEpigenesis, GeneticImmunotherapyNeoplasmsPersistent InfectionT-Lymphocytesepigenetic regulationT cellT cell exhaustionT cell stemnesstranscription factortransplantation

Identifiers

PMID34512656
PMCPMC8427607
OpenAlexW3197637209

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