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ArticleToxins2019

Vampire Venom: Vasodilatory Mechanisms of Vampire Bat (

Rahini Kakumanu, Wayne C Hodgson, Ravina Ravi, Alejandro Alagon, Richard J Harris, Andreas Brust, Paul F Alewood, Barbara K Kemp-Harper, Bryan G Fry

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Article in Toxins, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 18 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

9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Rahini KakumanuDepartment of Pharmacology, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia. rahini.r.ragavan@monash.edu.
Wayne C HodgsonDepartment of Pharmacology, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia. wayne.hodgson@monash.edu.
Ravina RaviDepartment of Pharmacology, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia. ravina.ravi@monash.edu.
Alejandro AlagonDepartamento de Medicina Molecular y Bioprocesos, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 2001, Cuernavaca, Morelos 62210, Mexico. alagon@ibt.unam.mx.
Richard J HarrisVenom Evolution Lab, School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland 4067, Australia. rharris2727@googlemail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-4412-2275
Andreas BrustInstitute for Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia. Andreas.brust@iinet.net.au.
Paul F AlewoodInstitute for Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia. p.alewood@imb.uq.edu.au.
Barbara K Kemp-HarperDepartment of Pharmacology, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia. barbara.kemp@monash.edu.
Bryan G FryVenom Evolution Lab, School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland 4067, Australia. bgfry@uq.edu.au.ORCID 0000-0001-6661-1283
Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute · AUThe University of Queensland · AUUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México · MX

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Animals that specialise in blood feeding have particular challenges in obtaining their meal, whereby they impair blood hemostasis by promoting anticoagulation and vasodilation in order to facilitate feeding. These convergent selection pressures have been studied in a number of lineages, ranging from fleas to leeches. However, the vampire bat (

Indexed as

ChiropteraAnimalsFeeding BehaviorMaleMesenteric ArteriesRats, Sprague-DawleyVasodilationVenomsVenomscalcitonin gene-related peptideDesmodus rotunduspotassium channelsvampire batvasodilatationvenom

Identifiers

PMID30626071
PMCPMC6356263
OpenAlexW2909797673

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Registered trials

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