ArticleMicroorganisms2025
Methods for Evaluating the Effects of 2D and 3D Culture Environment on Macrophage Response to Mycobacterium Infection.
Article in Microorganisms, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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.
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.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
- The 3D landscape of infection: spatial organization andFrontiers in immunology · 2026Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Macrophages are critical to the formation of infection- and non-infection-associated immune structures such as cancer spheroids, pathogen-, and non-pathogen-associated granulomas, contributing to the spatiotemporal and chemical immune response and eventual outcome of disease. While well established in cancer immunology, the prevalence of using three-dimensional (3D) cultures to characterize later-stage structural immune response in pathogen-associated granulomas continues to increase, generating valuable insights for empirical and computational analysis. To enable integration of data from 3D in vitro studies with the vast bibliome of standard two-dimensional (2D) tissue culture data, methods that determine concordance between 2D and 3D immune response need to be established. Focusing on macrophage migration and oxidative species production, we develop experimental and computational methods to enable concurrent spatiotemporal and biochemical characterization of 2D versus 3D macrophage-mycobacterium interaction. We integrate standard biological sampling methods, time-lapse confocal imaging, and 4D quantitative image analysis to develop a 3D ex vivo model of
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
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.