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ReviewBiomedicines2021

Monoclonal Antibodies Targeting Alarmins: A New Perspective for Biological Therapies of Severe Asthma.

Corrado Pelaia, Giulia Pelaia, Federico Longhini, Claudia Crimi, Cecilia Calabrese, Luca Gallelli, Angela Sciacqua, Alessandro Vatrella

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In one paragraph

Review in Biomedicines, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07013123 (Potency of HDM Sublingual AIT Tablets in Assuring the Persistency of Asthma Control in HDM Allergic Patients With Severe Asthma, Treated With Tezepelumab), which is not on this map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
25citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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.

NCT07013123 phase3not yet recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

Potency of HDM Sublingual AIT Tablets in Assuring the Persistency of Asthma Control in HDM Allergic Patients With Severe Asthma, Treated With Tezepelumab

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity Hospital, MontpellierRan2025 to 2029Enrolled38ConditionsSevere Asthma, Allergy to House Dust MitesArmsTezepelumab, Acarizax, Placebo
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 40 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Connecting the Dots: How MicroRNAs Link Asthma and Atherosclerosis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  7. Targeting alarmins in asthma: From bench to clinic.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2025
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  10. Body Weight and Allergic Asthma: A Narrative Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024
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  14. Switching Biological Therapies in Severe Asthma.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  19. Clinical implications of asthma endotypes and phenotypes.Allergy and asthma proceedings · 2022
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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

8 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Corrado PelaiaDepartment of Health Sciences, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Viale Europa-Località Germaneto, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-4236-7367
Giulia PelaiaDepartment of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy.
Federico LonghiniDepartment of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6970-7202
Claudia CrimiDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, 95131 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9088-5214
Cecilia CalabreseDepartment of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", 80131 Naples, Italy.
Luca GallelliDepartment of Health Sciences, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Viale Europa-Località Germaneto, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0858-7902
Angela SciacquaDepartment of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy.
Alessandro VatrellaDepartment of Medicine, Surgery, and Dentistry, University of Salerno, 84084 Salerno, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8265-3037
Magna Graecia University · ITUniversity of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" · ITUniversity of Catania · ITUniversity of Salerno · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alarmins are innate cytokines, including thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP), interleukin-33 (IL-33), and interleukin-25 (IL-25), which are mainly produced by airway epithelium and exert a prominent role in asthma pathobiology. In particular, several environmental factors such as allergens, cigarette smoking, airborne pollutants, and infectious agents trigger the release of alarmins, which in turn act as upstream activators of pro-inflammatory pathways underlying type 2 (T2-high) asthma. Indeed, alarmins directly activate group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2), eosinophils, basophils, and mast cells and also stimulate dendritic cells to drive the commitment of naïve T helper (Th) cells towards the Th2 immunophenotype. Therefore, TSLP, IL-33, and IL-25 represent suitable targets for add-on therapies of severe asthma. Within this context, the fully human anti-TSLP monoclonal antibody tezepelumab has been evaluated in very promising randomized clinical trials. Tezepelumab and other anti-alarmins are thus likely to become, in the near future, valuable therapeutic options for the biological treatment of uncontrolled severe asthma.

Indexed as

anti-alarminsasthmaIL-25IL-33tezepelumabTSLP

Identifiers

PMID34572294
PMCPMC8465735
OpenAlexW3197764184

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