Evidence map›Paper›PMID 22726218›Full record

ReviewAnnual review of microbiology2012

Herpesvirus transport to the nervous system and back again.

Gregory Smith

Abstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Annual review of microbiology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 131 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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131citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

131 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  5. Varicella zoster virus and the central nervous system.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026
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  8. Journal of virology · 2026
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  13. Herpes Simplex Virus Neurovirulence Across the Human Lifespan.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2025
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  17. The HSV-1 pUL37 protein promotes cell invasion by regulating the kinesin-1 motor.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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71 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

1 author.

Gregory SmithDepartment of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA. g-smith3@northwestern.edu

Funding

Alpha-Herpesvirus Transport on AxonsR01AI056346 · NIAID · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI SMITH, GREGORY ALLAN · 2004 to 2024
$6.8M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI056346
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Herpes simplex virus, varicella zoster virus, and pseudorabies virus are neurotropic pathogens of the Alphaherpesvirinae subfamily of the Herpesviridae. These viruses efficiently invade the peripheral nervous system and establish lifelong latency in neurons resident in peripheral ganglia. Primary and recurrent infections cycle virus particles between neurons and the peripheral tissues they innervate. This remarkable cycle of infection is the topic of this review. In addition, some of the distinguishing hallmarks of the infections caused by these viruses are evaluated in terms of their underlying similarities.

Indexed as

AnimalsHerpesvirus 1, SuidHerpesvirus 3, HumanHumansNervous SystemSimplexvirusViral TropismVirus Latency

Identifiers

PMID22726218
PMCPMC3882149

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