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ReviewSeminars in respiratory and critical care medicine2025

Immunopathogenesis of Sarcoidosis.

Christen Vagts, Christian Ascoli, Jeffrey R Jacobson

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Review in Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing 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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Quality of Life in Sarcoidosis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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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

3 authors.

Christen VagtsDivision of Pulmonary Critical Care Sleep and Allergy, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Christian AscoliDivision of Pulmonary Critical Care Sleep and Allergy, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Jeffrey R JacobsonDivision of Pulmonary Critical Care Sleep and Allergy, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sarcoidosis is a granulomatous disease of unknown cause, triggered by an unidentified antigen. Although classically considered a T cell-mediated disorder with an IFN-γ signature driven by Th1, Th17, and Th17.1 cells, its pathogenesis reflects dysregulated crosstalk between innate and adaptive immunity. Granulomas form through macrophage differentiation at the core, fueled by aberrantly programmed monocytes and sustained by persistent antigen presentation to T cells. Hyperactive macrophages drive excessive peripheral cell recruitment, while dysregulated T cell responses promote T cell expansion, impaired effector regulation, and eventual exhaustion. Deficient regulatory pathways fail to counterbalance this activation, creating a perpetuating inflammatory loop that underlies disease persistence and fibrotic progression. This review integrates up-to-date transcriptomic and biological data to define the cellular and molecular mechanisms that initiate, sustain, and dysregulate immune responses in sarcoidosis.

Indexed as

SarcoidosisAdaptive ImmunityGranulomaHumansImmunity, InnateMacrophagesT-Lymphocytes

Identifiers

PMID41197661
PMCPMC12768533

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