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ReviewFrontiers in medicine2023

Vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia: what do we know hitherto?

Renat Roytenberg, Adolfo García-Sastre, Wei Li

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Review in Frontiers in medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
6.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Renat RoytenbergDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine at Marshall University, Huntington, WV, United States.
Adolfo García-SastreDepartment of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States.
Wei LiDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine at Marshall University, Huntington, WV, United States.
Marshall University · USIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · US

Funding

West Virginia IDEA-CTRU54GM104942 · NIGMS · WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY · PI Stephenie Kay Kennedy-Rea · 2012 to 2026
$81.0M
WV INBRE: The Inhibitor of Growth Family Member 4 (ING4) inhibits L-Type Amino Acid Transporter 1 (LAT1) expression to suppress Breast CancerP20GM103434 · NIGMS · MARSHALL UNIVERSITY · PI GARY O RANKIN · 2012 to 2026
$61.1M
Thymidine Phosphorylase: a Novel Target of Antiplatelet TherapyR15HL145573 · NHLBI · MARSHALL UNIVERSITY · PI LI, WEI · 2019 to 2022
$878k
NHLBI NIH HHS R15 HL145573NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM103434
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT), also known as thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, is a catastrophic and life-threatening reaction to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines, which occurs disproportionately in response to vaccination with non-replicating adenovirus vector (AV) vaccines. The mechanism of VITT is not well defined and it has not been resolved why cases of VITT are predominated by vaccination with AV vaccines. However, virtually all VITT patients have positive platelet-activating anti-platelet factor 4 (PF4) antibody titers. Subsequently, platelets are activated and depleted in an Fcγ-receptor IIa (FcγRIIa or CD32a)-dependent manner, but it is not clear why or how the anti-PF4 response is mounted. This review describes the pathogenesis of VITT and provides insight into possible mechanisms that prompt the formation of a PF4/polyanion complex, which drives VITT pathology, as an amalgam of current experimental data or hypotheses.

Indexed as

COVID-19 vaccinePF4/polyanion immune complexplatelet factor 4spike proteinVITT

Identifiers

PMID37261122
PMCPMC10227460
OpenAlexW4376956195

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