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ArticleEBioMedicine2017

Thalidomide as a Potential HIV Latency Reversal Agent: Is It the Right Time to Forget the Ancestral Sins?

Ramachandran Vignesh, Esaki M Shankar

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Article in EBioMedicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

2 authors.

Ramachandran VigneshYRG Centre for AIDS Research and Education (YRG CARE), VHS Hospital Campus, Taramani, Chennai 600 113, India; Lab-based Department, Royal College of Medicine Perak, Universiti Kuala Lumpur (UniKL-RCMP), Ipoh, Malaysia. Electronic address: vignesh@yrgcare.org.
Esaki M ShankarCenter of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA), Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Division of Infection Biology, Department of Life Sciences, Central University of Tamil Nadu (CUTN), Thiruvarur 610 005, India; Department of Microbiology, Central University of Tamil Nadu (CUTN), Thiruvarur 610 005, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

CD4-Positive T-LymphocytesHIV-1HIV InfectionsHumansImmunomodulationImmunosuppressive AgentsThalidomideVirus ActivationVirus LatencyImmunosuppressive AgentsThalidomide

Identifiers

PMID28865747
PMCPMC5651972

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