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ReviewInfection & chemotherapy2013

The battle between influenza and the innate immune response in the human respiratory tract.

John M Nicholls

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Review in Infection & chemotherapy, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
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  3. Glycomic analysis of host response reveals high mannose as a key mediator of influenza severity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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  4. Review
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  7. Postviral Complications: Bacterial Pneumonia.Clinics in chest medicine · 2017
    Review
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  9. Hypothiocyanite produced by human and rat respiratory epithelial cells inactivates extracellular H1N2 influenza A virus.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2016
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  10. Antiviral Activities of Several Oral Traditional Chinese Medicines against Influenza Viruses.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

John M NichollsDepartment of Pathology, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Influenza is a viral infection of the respiratory tract. Infection is normally confined to the upper respiratory tract but certain viral strains have evolved the ability to infect the lower respiratory tract, including the alveoli, leading to inflammation and a disease pattern of diffuse alveolar damage. Factors leading to this sequence of events are novel influenza strains, or strains that have viral proteins, in particular the NS1 protein that allow it to escape the innate immune system. There are three main barriers that prevent infection of pneumocytes - mucin, host defence lectins and cells such as macrophages. Viruses have developed strategies such as neuraminidase and glycosylation patterns that allow this evasion. Though there has been much investment in antiviral drugs, it is proposed that more attention should be directed towards developing or utilizing compounds that enhance the ability of the innate immune system to combat viral infection.

Indexed as

InfluenzaInnate ImmunityLectinMucinRIG-I

Identifiers

PMID24265946
PMCPMC3780943

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