Evidence map›Paper›PMID 37100645›Full record

ReviewTrends in immunology2023

A model of Th2 differentiation based on polarizing cytokine repression.

Beatriz León

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Review in Trends in immunology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
5.3field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Immunotherapy for asthma.Cellular & molecular immunology · 2025
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  17. T-cell subsets inClinical & translational immunology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Beatriz LeónDepartment of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA. Electronic address: bleon@uab.edu.
University of Alabama at Birmingham · US

Funding

Regulation of T cell responses to allergens and environmental microbesR01AI116584 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI LUND, FRANCES E. · 2015 to 2024
$4.1M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI116584
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Conventional dendritic cells (cDCs) can integrate multiple stimuli from the environment and provide three separate outputs in terms of antigen presentation, costimulation, and cytokine production; this guides the activation, expansion, and differentiation of distinct functional T helper subsets. Accordingly, the current dogma posits that T helper cell specification requires these three signals in sequence. Data show that T helper 2 (Th2) cell differentiation requires antigen presentation and costimulation from cDCs but does not require polarizing cytokines. In this opinion article, we propose that the 'third signal' driving Th2 cell responses is, in fact, the absence of polarizing cytokines; indeed, the secretion of the latter is actively suppressed in cDCs, concomitant with acquired pro-Th2 functions.

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CytokinesTh2 CellsCell DifferentiationHumansTh1 CellsT-Lymphocytes, Helper-InducerCytokinesGATA3IL-12IL-2IL-6SOCS3STAT5T-betTGFβTh2 cells

Identifiers

PMID37100645
PMCPMC10219849
OpenAlexW4366817671

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