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ReviewInternational journal for parasitology2009

Recent insights into Entamoeba development: identification of transcriptional networks associated with stage conversion.

Upinder Singh, Gretchen M Ehrenkaufer

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Review in International journal for parasitology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Upinder SinghDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, S-143 Grant Building, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA 94305-5107, USA. usingh@stanford.edu
Gretchen M Ehrenkaufer

Funding

Identification of Transcriptional Regulatory Networks in Entamoeba HistolyticaR21AI069382 · NIAID · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI SINGH, UPINDER · 2007 to 2008
$431k
Developing Tools to Study Encystation in Entamoeba HistolyticaR21AI068899 · NIAID · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI SINGH, UPINDER · 2006 to 2007
$423k
NIAID NIH HHS AI-068899NIAID NIH HHS AI-069382NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI068899NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI069382
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Entamoeba histolytica is an important human pathogen and a leading parasitic cause of death globally. The parasite life cycle alternates between the trophozoite form, which is motile and causes invasive disease and the cyst stage, which is environmentally resistant and transmits infection. Understanding the triggers that initiate stage conversion is an important yet understudied area of investigation. Recent progress in dissecting the transcriptional networks that regulate E. histolytica development is outlined in this paper.

Indexed as

Gene Regulatory NetworksAnimalsCulture MediaEntamoebaEntamoeba histolyticaGene ExpressionOocystsTrophozoitesCulture Media

Identifiers

PMID18938171
PMCPMC2648836

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