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ReviewMedical microbiology and immunology2008

Recombinant viruses as tools to study human cytomegalovirus immune modulation.

Katrin Besold, Bodo Plachter

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Review in Medical microbiology and immunology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 25% 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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Katrin BesoldInstitut für Virologie, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Obere Zahlbacher Str. 67, 55101 Mainz, Germany.
Bodo Plachter
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Infections with cytomegaloviruses are characterized by an intricate balance between the expression of immunomodulatory viral proteins and antiviral immune defence. For human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), several proteins have been described that interfere with the recognition of infected cells by CD8 T lymphocytes. Although the modes of action of these proteins have been elucidated on the molecular level, thus rendering them useful models to understand MHC class I peptide loading and transport, their role during viral infection has remained enigmatic. We exemplify here, how HCMV mutants can help to understand the importance of individual immunomodulatory proteins in the context of viral infection.

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MutationCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesCytomegalovirusHumansViral ProteinsViral Proteins

Identifiers

PMID18301917
OpenAlexW2012930985

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