Evidence map›Paper›PMID 37542128›Full record

ReviewNature reviews. Drug discovery2023

Strategies to therapeutically modulate cytokine action.

Warren J Leonard, Jian-Xin Lin

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Review in Nature reviews. Drug discovery, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 67 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
67citing papers in PubMed
15.8field-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

67 citing papers in PubMed, 97 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Low-dose IL-2 Ameliorates Experimental Autoimmune Myasthenia Gravis in Rats by Restoring the CD4-positive Helper T-cell Balance Via the JAK/STAT5 Pathway.Journal of neuroimmune pharmacology : the official journal of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology · 2026
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  16. Dual-function cytokines as modulators of autophagy: reprogramming inflammatory resolution in severe COVID-19.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2026
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7 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Warren J LeonardLaboratory of Molecular Immunology and the Immunology Center, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. wjl@helix.nih.gov.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5740-7448
Jian-Xin LinLaboratory of Molecular Immunology and the Immunology Center, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
National Institutes of Health · US

Funding

IL-2 Family Cytokines and their Receptors-- Molecular Regulation via STATsZIAHL005402 · NHLBI · NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE · PI LEONARD, WARREN J · 2009 to 2025
$26.8M
IL-2 Family Cytokines and their Receptors-- Biology of the IL-21 systemZIAHL005408 · NHLBI · NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE · PI LEONARD, WARREN J · 2009 to 2025
$23.7M
IL-2 Family Cytokines and their Receptors-- Biology of the IL-2 systemZIAHL005401 · NHLBI · NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE · PI LEONARD, WARREN J · 2009 to 2025
$22.5M
IL-2 Family Cytokines and their Receptors--Biology of the IL-7/TSLP SystemsZIAHL005409 · NHLBI · NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE · PI LEONARD, WARREN J · 2009 to 2025
$10.0M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cytokines are secreted or membrane-presented molecules that mediate broad cellular functions, including development, differentiation, growth and survival. Accordingly, the regulation of cytokine activity is extraordinarily important both physiologically and pathologically. Cytokine and/or cytokine receptor engineering is being widely investigated to safely and effectively modulate cytokine activity for therapeutic benefit. IL-2 in particular has been extensively engineered, to create IL-2 variants that differentially exhibit activities on regulatory T cells to potentially treat autoimmune disease versus effector T cells to augment antitumour effects. Additionally, engineering approaches are being applied to many other cytokines such as IL-10, interferons and IL-1 family cytokines, given their immunosuppressive and/or antiviral and anticancer effects. In modulating the actions of cytokines, the strategies used have been broad, including altering affinities of cytokines for their receptors, prolonging cytokine half-lives in vivo and fine-tuning cytokine actions. The field is rapidly expanding, with extensive efforts to create improved therapeutics for a range of diseases.

Indexed as

Autoimmune DiseasesInterleukin-2CytokinesHumansImmunosuppressive AgentsT-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryCytokinesImmunosuppressive AgentsInterleukin-2

Identifiers

PMID37542128
OpenAlexW4385610932

What Socratic holds

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Registered trials

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