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ArticleBrain communications2021

CSF-resident CD4

James Hrastelj, Robert Andrews, Samantha Loveless, Joanne Morgan, Stefan Mark Bishop, Nicholas J Bray, Nigel M Williams, Neil P Robertson

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Article in Brain communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 22% 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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Review
  4. Article
  5. CD4PeerJ · 2025
    Review
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  7. Brain regulatory T cells.Nature reviews. Immunology · 2024
    Review
  8. Article
  9. Review
  10. Integrin α3 promotes TScience immunology · 2023
    Article
  11. Article
  12. Review
  13. How Does the Immune System Enter the Brain?Frontiers in immunology · 2022
    Review
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 1 institution in 1 country.

James HrasteljDivision of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neuroscience, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF14 4XW, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7991-5259
Robert AndrewsSchool of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF14 4XW, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3491-2361
Samantha LovelessDivision of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neuroscience, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF14 4XW, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5124-4115
Joanne MorganDivision of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neuroscience, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF14 4XW, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3091-0040
Stefan Mark BishopEuropean Cancer Stem Cell Research Institute, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 4HQ, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7774-6925
Nicholas J BrayDivision of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neuroscience, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF14 4XW, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4357-574X
Nigel M WilliamsDivision of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neuroscience, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF14 4XW, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1177-6931
Neil P RobertsonDivision of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neuroscience, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF14 4XW, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5409-4909
Cardiff University · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/L010305/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The CNS has traditionally been considered an immune privileged site, but is now understood to have a system of immune surveillance, predominantly involving CD4

Indexed as

CD4+CSFgene expressionimmune surveillancemultiple sclerosisT-cells

Identifiers

PMID34761221
PMCPMC8574295
OpenAlexW3174729687

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Registered trials

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