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ReviewFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology2017

Cytokines and Chemokines in Cerebral Malaria Pathogenesis.

Josefine Dunst, Faustin Kamena, Kai Matuschewski

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Review in Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 141 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
141citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
19.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

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

141 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 252 citations in OpenAlex.

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  19. A comprehensive review of cerebral malaria.Journal of parasitic diseases : official organ of the Indian Society for Parasitology · 2025
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81 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Josefine DunstParasitology Unit, Max Planck Institute for Infection BiologyBerlin, Germany.
Faustin KamenaParasitology Unit, Max Planck Institute for Infection BiologyBerlin, Germany.
Kai MatuschewskiParasitology Unit, Max Planck Institute for Infection BiologyBerlin, Germany.
Freie Universität Berlin · DEMax Planck Institute for Infection Biology · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cerebral malaria is among the major causes of malaria-associated mortality and effective adjunctive therapeutic strategies are currently lacking. Central pathophysiological processes involved in the development of cerebral malaria include an imbalance of pro- and anti-inflammatory responses to

Indexed as

Host-Pathogen InteractionsAnimalsBlood-Brain BarrierCytokinesDisease Models, AnimalEndothelial CellsLeukocytesMalaria, CerebralMicePermeabilityPlasmodiumCytokinesblood-brain barriercerebral malariachemokinescytokinesendothelial activationmalarianeuroinflammationPlasmodium

Identifiers

PMID28775960
PMCPMC5517394
OpenAlexW2739307655

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Registered trials

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