Evidence map›Paper›PMID 23633671›Full record

ReviewVirulence2013

Infectious particles, stress, and induced prion amyloids: a unifying perspective.

Laura Manuelidis

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Review in Virulence, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 15% 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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. A prokaryotic viral sequence is expressed and conserved in mammalian brain.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017
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  15. Alzheimer's disease and the microbiome.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2013
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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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Laura ManuelidisYale University Medical School, New Haven, CT, USA. laura.manuelidis@yale.edu
University of New Haven · US

Funding

PHS HHS R01 012674
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transmissible encephalopathies (TSEs) are believed by many to arise by spontaneous conversion of host prion protein (PrP) into an infectious amyloid (PrP-res, PrP (Sc) ) without nucleic acid. Many TSE agents reside in the environment, with infection controlled by public health measures. These include the disappearance of kuru with the cessation of ritual cannibalism, the dramatic reduction of epidemic bovine encephalopathy (BSE) by removal of contaminated feed, and the lack of endemic scrapie in geographically isolated Australian sheep with susceptible PrP genotypes. While prion protein modeling has engendered an intense focus on common types of protein misfolding and amyloid formation in diverse organisms and diseases, the biological characteristics of infectious TSE agents, and their recognition by the host as foreign entities, raises several fundamental new directions for fruitful investigation such as: (1) unrecognized microbial agents in the environmental metagenome that may cause latent neurodegenerative disease, (2) the evolutionary social and protective functions of different amyloid proteins in diverse organisms from bacteria to mammals, and (3) amyloid formation as a beneficial innate immune response to stress (infectious and non-infectious). This innate process however, once initiated, can become unstoppable in accelerated neuronal aging.

Indexed as

AmyloidAnimalsHumansImmunity, InnatePrion DiseasesPrionsProtein FoldingStress, PhysiologicalAmyloidPrionsagingAlzheimer diseasebiofilmsenvironmental pathogenslatencymetagenomenucleic acidsParkinson diseasetransmissible encephalopathiesyeast prions

Identifiers

PMID23633671
PMCPMC3714129
OpenAlexW2126387031

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