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ReviewAIDS research and human retroviruses2018

Barriers for HIV Cure: The Latent Reservoir.

Sergio Castro-Gonzalez, Marta Colomer-Lluch, Ruth Serra-Moreno

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Review in AIDS research and human retroviruses, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 79 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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79citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
4.7field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

79 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 130 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sergio Castro-Gonzalez1 Department of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Texas Tech University , Lubbock, Texas.
Marta Colomer-Lluch2 IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute , Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain .
Ruth Serra-Moreno1 Department of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Texas Tech University , Lubbock, Texas.
IrsiCaixa · ES

Funding

Characterization of the antiviral activity of BCA2R21AI106400 · NIAID · TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY · PI SERRA MORENO, RUTH · 2014 to 2015
$398k
NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI106400
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thirty-five years after the identification of HIV-1 as the causative agent of AIDS, we are still in search of vaccines and treatments to eradicate this devastating infectious disease. Progress has been made in understanding the molecular pathogenesis of this infection, which has been crucial for the development of the current therapy regimens. However, despite their efficacy at limiting active viral replication, these drugs are unable to purge the latent reservoir: a pool of cells that harbor transcriptionally inactive, but replication-competent HIV-1 proviruses, and that represent the main barrier to eradicate HIV-1 from affected individuals. In this review, we discuss advances in the field that have allowed a better understanding of HIV-1 latency, including the diverse cell types that constitute the latent reservoir, factors influencing latency, tools to study HIV-1 latency, as well as current and prospective therapeutic approaches to target these latently infected cells, so a functional cure for HIV/AIDS can become a reality.

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AnimalsHIV-1HIV InfectionsHumansVirus ActivationVirus LatencyVirus Replicationblock and lockHIVlatencypersistent infectionshock and killviral reservoirs

Identifiers

PMID30056745
PMCPMC6152859
OpenAlexW2883329573

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