Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29462695›Full record

ArticleAnaerobe2018

A 3D intestinal tissue model supports Clostridioides difficile germination, colonization, toxin production and epithelial damage.

Lamyaa Shaban, Ying Chen, Alyssa C Fasciano, Yinan Lin, David L Kaplan, Carol A Kumamoto, Joan Mecsas

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Article in Anaerobe, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
19citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 15% 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

19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Advances in Engineering Human Tissue Models.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2020
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  10. Investigation of metabolic crosstalk between host and pathogenicFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022
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  11. InVitro Models of Intestine Innate Immunity.Trends in biotechnology · 2021
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  18. ProbingFrontiers in microbiology · 2019
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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

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lamyaa ShabanGraduate Program in Molecular Microbiology, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, 136 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
Ying ChenDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, 4 Colby Street, Medford, MA 02155, USA.
Alyssa C FascianoGraduate Program in Immunology, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, 136 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
Yinan LinDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, 4 Colby Street, Medford, MA 02155, USA.
David L KaplanDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, 4 Colby Street, Medford, MA 02155, USA.
Carol A KumamotoDepartment of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, 136 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
Joan MecsasDepartment of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, 136 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA 02111, USA. Electronic address: joan.mecsas@tufts.edu.
Tufts University · US

Funding

Translational Bioreactors - Engineering Complex TissuesP41EB002520 · NIBIB · TUFTS UNIVERSITY MEDFORD · PI KAPLAN, DAVID L. · 2004 to 2018
$16.7M
TUSM/T-NEMC CENTER FOR NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH - Imaging CoreP30NS047243 · NINDS · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI JACKSON, F ROB · 2003 to 2017
$10.0M
Interaction of enteropathogenic Yersinia and Vibrio cholera with engineered human intestinal tissueU19AI131126 · NIAID · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI WARD, HONORINE D · 2017 to 2021
$8.1M
MOLECULAR ANALYSIS OF MICROBIAL PATHOGENST32AI007422 · NIAID · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI Ralph R. Isberg · 1992 to 2026
$5.7M
IMMUNOLOGIC ASPECTS OF DISEASET32AI007077 · NIAID · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI WORTIS, HENRY H. · 1985 to 2017
$3.5M
C ALBICANS IN THE GI TRACT ENVIRONMENTR01AI118898 · NIAID · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI KUMAMOTO, CAROL A. · 2016 to 2020
$2.5M
Initiation and regulation of antibacterial innate immunityR01AI113166 · NIAID · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI MECSAS, JOAN C · 2014 to 2018
$2.4M
A tunable 3D human small intestinal tissue model for study of enteric pathogensR21AI128093 · NIAID · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI MECSAS, JOAN C · 2017 to 2018
$441k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI113166NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI118898NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI128093NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007077NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007422NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI131126NIBIB NIH HHS P41 EB002520NINDS NIH HHS P30 NS047243
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Endospore-forming Clostridioides difficile is a causative agent of antibiotic-induced diarrhea, a major nosocomial infection. Studies of its interactions with mammalian tissues have been hampered by the fact that C. difficile requires anaerobic conditions to survive after spore germination. We recently developed a bioengineered 3D human intestinal tissue model and found that low O

Indexed as

Tissue Culture TechniquesTissue ScaffoldsAnimalsBacterial ToxinsCell LineClostridioides difficileClostridium InfectionsEpithelial CellsHumansIntestinal MucosaRatsSpores, BacterialBacterial Toxins2D transwell3D intestinal tissueClostridioides difficileClostridium difficileGerminationToxin activity

Identifiers

PMID29462695
PMCPMC5866244
OpenAlexW2789514579

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Registered trials

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