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ArticleTrends in parasitology2017

Malaria Parasites Distribute Subversive Messages across Enemy Lines.

Anna Rivkin, Sharon Ben-Hur, Neta Regev-Rudzki

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Article in Trends in parasitology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Perils and Promises of Pathogenic Protozoan Extracellular Vesicles.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Anna RivkinDepartment of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
Sharon Ben-HurDepartment of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
Neta Regev-RudzkiDepartment of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Electronic address: neta.regev-rudzki@weizmann.ac.il.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During its life cycle, the malaria parasite must cope with a set of diverse environments and institute strategies to alter its host's responses. A recent study remarkably demonstrates how these parasites exploit red blood cell products, loading them into 'armed' secreted vesicles sent to manipulate their host's 'endothelium battlefront', thereby promoting malaria infection.

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Host-Parasite InteractionsCell CommunicationEndothelial CellsErythrocytesExtracellular VesiclesHumansMalariaPlasmodium

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