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ReviewJournal of neuroimmune pharmacology : the official journal of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology2010

Chronic viral infection and primary central nervous system malignancy.

Robert Saddawi-Konefka, John R Crawford

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Review in Journal of neuroimmune pharmacology : the official journal of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 23% 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

17 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Occupational livestock or animal dust exposure and offspring cancer risk in Denmark, 1968-2016.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2020
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  16. Viral infections of the central nervous system: pathogenesis to therapeutics.Journal of neuroimmune pharmacology : the official journal of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology · 2010
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Robert Saddawi-KonefkaSchool of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA.
John R Crawford
University of California, San Diego · US

Funding

Characterization of the La Crosse Virus glycoprotein fusion peptideR01AI074626 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI SOLDAN, SAMANTHA STANDISH · 2008 to 2012
$1.7M
NIAID NIH HHS 1R01AI074626-01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Primary central nervous system (CNS) tumors cause significant morbidity and mortality in both adults and children. While some of the genetic and molecular mechanisms of neuro-oncogenesis are known, much less is known about possible epigenetic contributions to disease pathophysiology. Over the last several decades, chronic viral infections have been associated with a number of human malignancies. In primary CNS malignancies, two families of viruses, namely polyomavirus and herpesvirus, have been detected with varied frequencies in a number of pediatric and adult histological tumor subtypes. However, establishing a link between chronic viral infection and primary CNS malignancy has been an area of considerable controversy, due in part to variations in detection frequencies and methodologies used among researchers. Since a latent viral neurotropism can be seen with a variety of viruses and a widespread seropositivity exists among the population, it has been difficult to establish an association between viral infection and CNS malignancy based on epidemiology alone. While direct evidence of a role of viruses in neuro-oncogenesis in humans is lacking, a more plausible hypothesis of neuro-oncomodulation has been proposed. The overall goals of this review are to summarize the many human investigations that have studied viral infection in primary CNS tumors, discuss potential neuro-oncomodulatory mechanisms of viral-associated CNS disease and propose future research directions to establish a more firm association between chronic viral infections and primary CNS malignancies.

Indexed as

AdultCentral Nervous System NeoplasmsCentral Nervous System Viral DiseasesChildCytomegalovirus InfectionsHerpes SimplexHerpesvirus 1, HumanHerpesvirus 2, HumanHerpesvirus 6, HumanHumansJC VirusPolyomavirus InfectionsRoseolovirus InfectionsTumor Virus Infections

Identifiers

PMID20387126
PMCPMC2914282
OpenAlexW2142487031

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