Evidence map›Paper›PMID 22163340›Full record

ReviewViruses2011

The molecular biology of feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV).

Julia C Kenyon, Andrew M L Lever

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Review in Viruses, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
25citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 26% 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

25 citing papers in PubMed, 41 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.

Julia C KenyonDepartment of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK. jck33@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk
Andrew M L Lever
Addenbrooke's Hospital · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council 86070Medical Research Council G0800142Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 078007/Z/05/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) is widespread in feline populations and causes an AIDS-like illness in domestic cats. It is highly prevalent in several endangered feline species. In domestic cats FIV infection is a valuable small animal model for HIV infection. In recent years there has been sa significant increase in interest in FIV, in part to exploit this, but also because of the potential it has as a human gene therapy vector. Though much less studied than HIV there are many parallels in the replication of the two viruses, but also important differences and, despite their likely common origin, the viruses have in some cases used alternative strategies to overcome similar problems. Recent advances in understanding the structure and function of FIV RNA and proteins and their interactions has enhanced our knowledge of FIV replication significantly, however, there are still many gaps. This review summarizes our current knowledge of FIV molecular biology and its similarities with, and differences from, other lentiviruses.

Indexed as

AnimalsCatsFeline Acquired Immunodeficiency SyndromeHIVHIV InfectionsHumansImmunodeficiency Virus, FelineVirus ReplicationFIVretrovirus, lentivirus

Identifiers

PMID22163340
PMCPMC3230847
OpenAlexW2090320480

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Registered trials

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