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ReviewFrontiers in bioscience (Landmark edition)2016

Glycosaminoglycans and infection.

Rafael S Aquino, Pyong Woo Park

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Review in Frontiers in bioscience (Landmark edition), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 81 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
81citing papers in PubMed
6.1field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

81 citing papers in PubMed, 140 citations in OpenAlex.

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21 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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rafael S AquinoDivision of Respiratory Diseases and 2Division of Newborn Medicine, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Pyong Woo ParkDivision of Respiratory Diseases Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA and Division of Newborn Medicine, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA, pyong.park@childrens.harvard.edu.
Boston Children's Hospital · US

Funding

HSPGs in Ocular Surface DiseasesR01EY021765 · NEI · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI PARK, PYONG WOO · 2012 to 2016
$1.9M
Syndecan Interactions in Lung Injury and RepairR01HL107472 · NHLBI · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI PARK, PYONG WOO · 2011 to 2014
$1.7M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY021765NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL107472
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are complex linear polysaccharides expressed in intracellular compartments, at the cell surface, and in the extracellular environment where they interact with various molecules to regulate many cellular processes implicated in health and disease. Subversion of GAGs is a pathogenic strategy shared by a wide variety of microbial pathogens, including viruses, bacteria, parasites, and fungi. Pathogens use GAGs at virtually every major portals of entry to promote their attachment and invasion of host cells, movement from one cell to another, and to protect themselves from immune attack. Pathogens co-opt fundamental activities of GAGs to accomplish these tasks. This ingenious strategy to subvert essential activities of GAGs likely prevented host organisms from deleting or inactivating these mechanisms during their evolution. The goal of this review is to provide a mechanistic overview of our current understanding of how microbes subvert GAGs at major steps of pathogenesis, using select GAG-pathogen interactions as representative examples.

Indexed as

AnimalsBlood-Borne PathogensEye InfectionsGastrointestinal DiseasesGlycosaminoglycansHost-Pathogen InteractionsHumansInfectionsRespiratory Tract InfectionsSkin DiseasesUrogenital SystemGlycosaminoglycans

Identifiers

PMID27100505
PMCPMC4975577
OpenAlexW2325157083

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Registered trials

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