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ArticleCell host & microbe2016

Ticks Take Cues from Mammalian Interferon.

Aravinda M de Silva

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Article in Cell host & microbe, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing 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

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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Interactions Between Ticks and Lyme Disease Spirochetes.Current issues in molecular biology · 2021
    Article
  2. Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2018
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Aravinda M de SilvaDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. Electronic address: desilva@med.unc.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Interferons are considered a first line of immune defense restricted to vertebrates. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Smith et al. (2016) demonstrate that mammalian interferon γ activates an antimicrobial response within ticks feeding on blood. The study suggests that arthropods have a parallel interferon-like defense system.

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InterferonsMammalsAnimalsTicksInterferons

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