Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34953867›Full record

ReviewJournal of lipid research2022

Cholesterol metabolism: from lipidomics to immunology.

William J Griffiths, Yuqin Wang

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In one paragraph

Review in Journal of lipid research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
32citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
9.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

32 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 60 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Cholesterol Within Phosphatidylcholine Liposomes Attenuates the Expression of Cytokines.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2025
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  16. Larsucosterol: endogenous epigenetic regulator for treating chronic and acute liver diseases.American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism · 2024
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  19. Enzymatically Formed Oxysterols and Cell Death.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2024
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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 at 1 institution in 1 country.

William J GriffithsSwansea University Medical School, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. Electronic address: w.j.griffiths@swansea.ac.uk.
Yuqin WangSwansea University Medical School, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. Electronic address: y.wang@swansea.ac.uk.
Swansea University · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/I001735/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/L001942/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/N015932/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oxysterols, the oxidized forms of cholesterol or of its precursors, are formed in the first steps of cholesterol metabolism. Oxysterols have interested chemists, biologists, and physicians for many decades, but their exact biological relevance in vivo, other than as intermediates in bile acid biosynthesis, has long been debated. However, in the first quarter of this century, a role for side-chain oxysterols and their C-7 oxidized metabolites has been convincingly established in the immune system. 25-Hydroxycholesterol has been shown to be synthesized by macrophages in response to the activation of Toll-like receptors and to offer protection against microbial pathogens, whereas 7α,25-dihydroxycholesterol has been shown to act as a chemoattractant to lymphocytes expressing the G protein-coupled receptor Epstein-Barr virus-induced gene 2 and to be important in coordinating the action of B cells, T cells, and dendritic cells in secondary lymphoid tissue. There is a growing body of evidence that not only these two oxysterols but also many of their isomers are of importance to the proper function of the immune system. Here, we review recent findings related to the roles of oxysterols in immunology.

Indexed as

CholesterolAnimalsHumansLipid MetabolismLipidomicsOxysterolsCholesterolOxysterolsaccessible cholesterolbacterial infectionB celldendritic cellhydroxycholesterolmacrophagemembrane fusionoxysterolT cellvirus

Identifiers

PMID34953867
PMCPMC8953665
OpenAlexW4200299560

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