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ReviewBiomedicines2017

Aptamer Technology: Adjunct Therapy for Malaria.

Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Kamarudin, Nurul Adila Mohammed, Khairul Mohd Fadzli Mustaffa

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Review in Biomedicines, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Nik Abdul Aziz Nik KamarudinInstitute for Research in Molecular Medicine (INFORMM), Universiti Sains Malaysia, Health Campus, Kubang Kerian, 16150 Kelantan, Malaysia. nkabdaziz@gmail.com.
Nurul Adila MohammedInstitute for Research in Molecular Medicine (INFORMM), Universiti Sains Malaysia, Health Campus, Kubang Kerian, 16150 Kelantan, Malaysia. diela.1123@gmail.com.
Khairul Mohd Fadzli MustaffaInstitute for Research in Molecular Medicine (INFORMM), Universiti Sains Malaysia, Health Campus, Kubang Kerian, 16150 Kelantan, Malaysia. khairulmf@usm.my.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Malaria is a life-threatening parasitic infection occurring in the endemic areas, primarily in children under the age of five, pregnant women, and patients with human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV)/(AIDS) as well as non-immune individuals. The cytoadherence of infected erythrocytes (IEs) to the host endothelial surface receptor is a known factor that contributes to the increased prevalence of severe malaria cases due to the accumulation of IEs, mainly in the brain and other vital organs. Therefore, further study is needed to discover a new potential anti-adhesive drug to treat severe malaria thus reducing its mortality rate. In this review, we discuss how the aptamer technology could be applied in the development of a new adjunct therapy for current malaria treatment.

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adjunct therapyaptamercytoadherencemalariaPlasmodium falciparum

Identifiers

PMID28536344
PMCPMC5423489

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