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ReviewFrontiers in reproductive health2023

Macrophages and small extracellular vesicle mediated-intracellular communication in the peritoneal microenvironment: Impact on endometriosis development.

Yifan Wang, Rebecca A Dragovic, Erin Greaves, Christian M Becker, Jennifer H Southcombe

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In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in reproductive health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 10% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Yifan WangNuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health, Oxford Endometriosis CaRe Centre, Nuffield University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Rebecca A DragovicNuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health, Oxford Endometriosis CaRe Centre, Nuffield University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Erin GreavesDivision of Biomedical Sciences, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.
Christian M BeckerNuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health, Oxford Endometriosis CaRe Centre, Nuffield University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Jennifer H SouthcombeNuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health, Oxford Endometriosis CaRe Centre, Nuffield University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
University of Oxford · GBEndometriosis · GBUniversity of Warwick · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/S002456/2
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Endometriosis is an inflammatory disease that is defined as the growth of endometrium-like tissue outside the uterus, commonly on the lining of the pelvic cavity, visceral organs and in the ovaries. It affects around 190 million women of reproductive age worldwide and is associated with chronic pelvic pain and infertility, which greatly impairs health-related life quality. The symptoms of the disease are variable, this combined with a lack of diagnostic biomarkers and necessity of surgical visualisation to confirm disease, the prognosis can take an average timespan of 6-8 years. Accurate non-invasive diagnostic tests and the identification of effective therapeutic targets are essential for disease management. To achieve this, one of the priorities is to define the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms that contribute to endometriosis. Recently, immune dysregulation in the peritoneal cavity has been linked to endometriosis progression. Macrophages account for over 50% of immune cells in the peritoneal fluid and are critical for lesion growth, angiogenesis, innervation and immune regulation. Apart from the secretion of soluble factors like cytokines and chemokines, macrophages can communicate with other cells and prime disease microenvironments, such as the tumour microenvironment,

Indexed as

endometriosisendometriotic stromal cellmacrophageperitoneal microenvironmentsmall extracellular vesicle

Identifiers

PMID37077181
PMCPMC10106708
OpenAlexW4362587668

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