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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2025

What's cooking? The effect of temperature on the immune response.

Julie M Old, Brian Dixon

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

2 authors.

Julie M OldSchool of Science, Hawkesbury, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia.
Brian DixonDepartment of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Animals have evolved to live in different environs, with some having developed specialised features to support survival in adverse conditions, whilst others adapt behaviourally. Temperature impacts the immune system differentially, with lower temperatures impacting the adaptive immune response, but not the innate response. A reduction in adaptive immune capacity at lower temperatures can be due to a failure to effectively assemble MHC and may be a result of modifications of the plasma membrane structure or its viscosities. Higher temperatures can be beneficial initially, but can be disruptive if excessive. Ensuring the effectiveness of the adaptive immune response through optimal temperature regulation or manipulation, where possible, may support immunological fitness, ultimately enhance the conservation and biodiversity of wildlife species, and improve welfare outcomes for production animals and ourselves.

Indexed as

Adaptive ImmunityTemperatureAnimalsHumansImmunity, Innatecomparative immunologyendothermimmunityinfectionmammalpoikilothermteleostvirus

Identifiers

PMID41394825
PMCPMC12695563

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