Platelet power: sticky problems for sticky parasites?

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.

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.

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

1. Platelet-Eosinophil Interactions As a Potential Therapeutic Target in Allergic Inflammation and Asthma.Frontiers in medicine · 2017
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2. Are Platelets Cells? And if Yes, are They Immune Cells?Frontiers in immunology · 2015
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3. Bench-to-bedside review: Platelets and active immune functions - new clues for immunopathology?Critical care (London, England) · 2013
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4. Tumor necrosis factor -α, interleukin-10, intercellular and vascular adhesion molecules are possible biomarkers of disease severity in complicated Plasmodium vivax isolates from Pakistan.PloS one · 2013
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5. Testing in mice the hypothesis that melanin is protective in malaria infections.PloS one · 2012
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Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

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