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ReviewPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)2016

The Role of Antimicrobial Peptides in Influenza Virus Infection and Their Potential as Antiviral and Immunomodulatory Therapy.

I-Ni Hsieh, Kevan L Hartshorn

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Review in Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers.

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42citing papers in PubMed
5.4field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
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

42 citing papers in PubMed, 80 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

I-Ni HsiehDepartment of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA. inhsieh@bu.edu.
Kevan L HartshornDepartment of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA. khartsho@bu.edu.
Boston University · US

Funding

Enhancing Collectin-Mediated Defense Against InfluenzaR01HL069031 · NHLBI · BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER · PI HARTSHORN, KEVAN L · 2002 to 2018
$6.6M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL069031
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Influenza A virus (IAV) remains a major threat that can cause severe morbidity and mortality due to rapid genomic variation. Resistance of IAVs to current anti-IAV drugs has been emerging, and antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have been considered to be potential candidates for novel treatment against IAV infection. AMPs are endogenous proteins playing important roles in host defense through direct antimicrobial and antiviral activities and through immunomodulatory effects. In this review, we will discuss the anti-IAV and immunomodulatory effects of classical AMPs (defensins and cathelicidins), and proteins more recently discovered to have AMP-like activity (histones and Alzheimer's associated β-amyloid). We will discuss the interactions between AMPs and other host defense proteins. Major emphasis will be placed on novel synthetic AMPs derived from modification of natural proteins, and on potential methods of increasing expression of endogenous AMPs, since these approaches may lead to novel antiviral therapeutics.

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Identifiers

PMID27608030
PMCPMC5039506
OpenAlexW2517451726

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