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ReviewJournal of translational autoimmunity2019

The complement system in liver diseases: Evidence-based approach and therapeutic options.

Thomas Lung, Benjamin Sakem, Lorenz Risch, Reinhard Würzner, Giuseppe Colucci, Andreas Cerny, Urs Nydegger

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Review in Journal of translational autoimmunity, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 22% 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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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  17. Autoimmune diseases - New insights into a troublesome field.Journal of translational autoimmunity · 2021
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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

7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Thomas LungLabormedizinisches Zentrum Dr. Risch, Lagerstrasse 30, CH-9470, Buchs, Switzerland.
Benjamin SakemLabormedizinisches Zentrum Dr. Risch, Waldeggstrasse 37, CH-3097, Liebefeld bei Bern, Switzerland.
Lorenz RischLabormedizinisches Zentrum Dr. Risch, Waldeggstrasse 37, CH-3097, Liebefeld bei Bern, Switzerland.
Reinhard WürznerMedical University Innsbruck, Division of Hygiene & Medical Microbiology, Department of Hygiene, Microbiology and Public Health, Schöpfstrasse 41, A-6020, Innsbruck, Austria.
Giuseppe ColucciClinica Luganese Moncucco, Lugano, Via Moncucco, CH-6900, Lugano, Switzerland.
Andreas CernyEpatocentro Ticino, Via Soldino 5, CH-6900, Lugano, Switzerland.
Urs NydeggerLabormedizinisches Zentrum Dr. Risch, Waldeggstrasse 37, CH-3097, Liebefeld bei Bern, Switzerland.
Labormedizinische Zentrum Dr Risch (Switzerland) · CHClinica Luganese Moncucco · CHEpatocentro Ticino · CHInnsbruck Medical University · AT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Complement is usually seen to largely originate from the liver to accomplish its tasks systemically - its return to the production site has long been underestimated. Recent progress in genomics, therapeutic effects on complement, standardised possibilities in medical laboratory tests and involvement of complosome brings the complement system with its three major functions of opsonization, cytolysis and phagocytosis back to liver biology and pathology. The LOINC™ system features 20 entries for the C3 component of complement to anticipate the application of artificial intelligence data banks algorythms of which are fed with patient-specific data connected to standard lab assays for liver function. These advancements now lead to increased vigilance by clinicians. This reassessment article will further elucidate the distribution of synthesis sites to the three germ layer-derived cell systems and the role complement now known to play in embryogenesis, senescence, allotransplantation and autoimmune disease. This establishes the liver as part of the gastro-intestinal system in connection with nosological entities never thought of, such as the microbiota-liver-brain axis. In neurological disease etiology infectious and autoimmune hepatitis play an important role in the context of causative

Indexed as

AutoantibodyComplement systemComplosomeDiagnostic testsHepatocyte

Identifiers

PMID32743505
PMCPMC7388403
OpenAlexW2974895663

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Registered trials

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