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ArticleBiology open2019

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Takeshi Q Tanaka, Suzumi M Tokuoka, Daichi Nakatani, Fumie Hamano, Shin-Ichiro Kawazu, Thomas E Wellems, Kiyoshi Kita, Takao Shimizu, Fuyuki Tokumasu

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Article in Biology open, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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16citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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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.

Takeshi Q TanakaInternational Medical Zoology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, 761-0793, Japan.
Suzumi M TokuokaDepartment of Lipidomics, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 103-0033, Japan.
Daichi NakataniResearch Unit of Advanced Preventive Medicine, National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido 080-8555, Japan.
Fumie HamanoLipid Signaling Project, Research Institute National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, 162-8655, Japan.
Shin-Ichiro KawazuResearch Unit of Advanced Preventive Medicine, National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido 080-8555, Japan.
Thomas E WellemsLaboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Vector Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-8132, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3899-8454
Kiyoshi KitaSchool of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, 852-8523, Japan.
Takao ShimizuDepartment of Lipidomics, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 103-0033, Japan.
Fuyuki TokumasuLaboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Vector Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-8132, USA ftokumasu@nagasaki-u.ac.jp.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2790-1071

Funding

Malaria Drug Resistance and Disease VirulenceZIAAI000483 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI WELLEMS, THOMAS E · 2009 to 2025
$24.5M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The molecular triggers of sexual differentiation into gametocytes by blood stage

Indexed as

GametocyteLipidomicsMalariaMass spectrometryNeutral lipidsPhospholipids

Identifiers

PMID31221627
PMCPMC6679406

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