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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2018

Integrative Approaches to Understand the Mastery in Manipulation of Host Cytokine Networks by Protozoan Parasites with Emphasis on

Anusree Mahanta, Piyali Ganguli, Pankaj Barah, Ram Rup Sarkar, Neelanjana Sarmah, Saurav Phukan, Mayuri Bora, Shashi Baruah

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In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% 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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. An Insight Into Systemic Immune Response inFrontiers in immunology · 2021
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  4. DNA Methylation in macrophages infected withEmerging microbes & infections · 2025
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  5. DNA methylation alterations caused byFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022
    Review
  6. Modulation of Host Immune Response duringFrontiers in immunology · 2021
    Article
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  8. Frontiers in immunology · 2021
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  9. Host-Malaria Parasite Interactions and Impacts on Mutual Evolution.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2020
    Review
  10. Frontiers in immunology · 2019
    Review
  11. Review
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

8 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Anusree MahantaDepartment of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Tezpur University, Tezpur, India.
Piyali GanguliChemical Engineering and Process Development, CSIR- National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India.
Pankaj BarahDepartment of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Tezpur University, Tezpur, India.
Ram Rup SarkarChemical Engineering and Process Development, CSIR- National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India.
Neelanjana SarmahDepartment of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Tezpur University, Tezpur, India.
Saurav PhukanDepartment of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Tezpur University, Tezpur, India.
Mayuri BoraDepartment of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Tezpur University, Tezpur, India.
Shashi BaruahDepartment of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Tezpur University, Tezpur, India.
Tezpur University · INAcademy of Scientific and Innovative Research · INInstitute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine · INNational Chemical Laboratory · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diseases by protozoan pathogens pose a significant public health concern, particularly in tropical and subtropical countries, where these are responsible for significant morbidity and mortality. Protozoan pathogens tend to establish chronic infections underscoring their competence at subversion of host immune processes, an important component of disease pathogenesis and of their virulence. Modulation of cytokine and chemokine levels, their crosstalks and downstream signaling pathways, and thereby influencing recruitment and activation of immune cells is crucial to immune evasion and subversion. Many protozoans are now known to secrete effector molecules that actively modulate host immune transcriptome and bring about alterations in host epigenome to alter cytokine levels and signaling. The complexity of multi-dimensional events during interaction of hosts and protozoan parasites ranges from microscopic molecular levels to macroscopic ecological and epidemiological levels that includes disrupting metabolic pathways, cell cycle (

Indexed as

CytokinesHost-Parasite InteractionsHumansImmune EvasionLeishmaniaLeishmaniasisMalariaPlasmodiumSystems BiologyCytokinescross regulationcytokine networksinflammationLeishmaniamanipulationPlasmodiumsignalling hubssystem biology

Identifiers

PMID29527208
PMCPMC5829655
OpenAlexW2793452198

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Registered trials

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