Evidence map›Paper›PMID 36197900›Full record

ArticleMathematical medicine and biology : a journal of the IMA2023

Exploring the constituent mechanisms of hepatitis: a dynamical systems approach.

Joanne L Dunster, Jonathan M Gibbins, Martin R Nelson

Open access · hybridFull text read
In one paragraph

Article in Mathematical medicine and biology : a journal of the IMA, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 31% 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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Joanne L DunsterInstitute for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AS, UK.
Jonathan M GibbinsInstitute for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AS, UK.
Martin R NelsonSchool of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, NG11 8NS, UK.
University of Reading · GBNottingham Trent University · GB

Funding

British Heart Foundation RG/20/7/34866Medical Research Council MR/W015293/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatitis is the term used to describe inflammation in the liver. It is associated with a high rate of mortality, but the underlying disease mechanisms are not completely understood and treatment options are limited. We present a mathematical model of hepatitis that captures the complex interactions between hepatocytes (liver cells), hepatic stellate cells (cells in the liver that produce hepatitis-associated fibrosis) and the immune components that mediate inflammation. The model is in the form of a system of ordinary differential equations. We use numerical techniques and bifurcation analysis to characterize and elucidate the physiological mechanisms that dominate liver injury and its outcome to a healthy or unhealthy, chronic state. This study reveals the complex interactions between the multiple cell types and mediators involved in this complex disease and highlights potential problems in targeting inflammation in the liver therapeutically.

Indexed as

HepatitisLiverHepatocytesHumansInflammationSystems Analysisbifurcation analysishepatitisinflammationmathematical modelling

Identifiers

PMID36197900
PMCPMC10009886
OpenAlexW4302012093

What OpenQuestion holds

Textfull text, public
LicenceCC BY
reference markers read18
measurements read21
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.