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ReviewViruses2019

Understanding Prion Strains: Evidence from Studies of the Disease Forms Affecting Humans.

Marcello Rossi, Simone Baiardi, Piero Parchi

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Review in Viruses, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
38citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

38 citing papers in PubMed, 92 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. A scalable, dividing cell model for the robust propagation and quantification of human sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease prions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  3. Insights into the Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management of Prion Diseases.CNS & neurological disorders drug targets · 2026
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  7. Adaptation of the protein misfolding cyclic amplification (PMCA) technique for the screening of anti-prion compounds.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2024
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  17. Structural biology of ex vivo mammalian prions.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2022
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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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Marcello RossiDepartment of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine (DIMES), University of Bologna, Bologna 40138, Italy. marcello.rossi@ausl.bologna.it.
Simone BaiardiDepartment of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna 40123, Italy. simone.baiardi6@unibo.it.
Piero ParchiIRCCS Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna, Bologna 40139, Italy. piero.parchi@unibo.it.
Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna · ITUniversity of Bologna · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prion diseases are a unique group of rare neurodegenerative disorders characterized by tissue deposition of heterogeneous aggregates of abnormally folded protease-resistant prion protein (PrP

Indexed as

Biological Variation, PopulationGenetic VariationHumansPrion DiseasesPrion ProteinsProtein AggregatesProtein ConformationPrion ProteinsProtein AggregatesCreutzfeldt–Jakob diseaseexperimental transmissionfatal insomniaGSShuman prion diseaseprionstrainVPSPr

Identifiers

PMID30934971
PMCPMC6520670
OpenAlexW2927494401

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