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ArticleJournal of inflammation research2017

From amino acids polymers, antimicrobial peptides, and histones, to their possible role in the pathogenesis of septic shock: a historical perspective.

Isaac Ginsburg, Peter Vernon van Heerden, Erez Koren

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Article in Journal of inflammation research, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 37% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Isaac GinsburgInstitute of Dental Sciences, Faculty of Dental Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Peter Vernon van HeerdenGeneral Intensive Care Unit, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.
Erez KorenInstitute of Dental Sciences, Faculty of Dental Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem · ILHadassah Academic College · IL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper describes the evolution of our understanding of the biological role played by synthetic and natural antimicrobial cationic peptides and by the highly basic nuclear histones as modulators of infection, postinfectious sequelae, trauma, and coagulation phenomena. The authors discuss the effects of the synthetic polymers of basic poly α amino acids, poly l-lysine, and poly l-arginine on blood coagulation, fibrinolysis, bacterial killing, and blood vessels; the properties of natural and synthetic antimicrobial cationic peptides as potential replacements or adjuncts to antibiotics; polycations as opsonizing agents promoting endocytosis/phagocytosis; polycations and muramidases as activators of autolytic wall enzymes in bacteria, causing bacteriolysis and tissue damage; and polycations and nuclear histones as potential virulence factors and as markers of sepsis, septic shock, disseminated intravasclar coagulopathy, acute lung injury, pancreatitis, trauma, and other additional clinical disorders.

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histonessepsisseptic shock

Identifiers

PMID28203100
PMCPMC5293372
OpenAlexW2584768730

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