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Housekeeping Gene Expression in the Fetal and Neonatal Murine Thymus Following Coxsackievirus B4 Infection.

Aymen Halouani, Habib Jmii, Hélène Michaux, Chantal Renard, Henri Martens, Dimitri Pirottin, Maha Mastouri, Mahjoub Aouni, Vincent Geenen, Hela Jaïdane

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Article in Genes, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 38% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Aymen HalouaniFaculté de Pharmacie de Monastir, Université de Monastir, Laboratoire des Maladies Transmissibles et Substances Biologiquement Actives LR99ES27, Monastir 5000, Tunisia.
Habib JmiiFaculté de Pharmacie de Monastir, Université de Monastir, Laboratoire des Maladies Transmissibles et Substances Biologiquement Actives LR99ES27, Monastir 5000, Tunisia.
Hélène MichauxFaculté de Médicine, Université de Liège, GIGA-I3 Immunoendocrinologie, CHU-B34, B-4000 Liege, Sart Tilman, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-9763-0636
Chantal RenardFaculté de Médicine, Université de Liège, GIGA-I3 Immunoendocrinologie, CHU-B34, B-4000 Liege, Sart Tilman, Belgium.
Henri MartensFaculté de Médicine, Université de Liège, GIGA-I3 Immunoendocrinologie, CHU-B34, B-4000 Liege, Sart Tilman, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-4713-8982
Dimitri PirottinFaculté de Médicine, Université de Liège, GIGA-I3 Cellular and Molecular Immunology, CHU-B34, B-4000 Liege, Sart Tilman, Belgium.
Maha MastouriFaculté de Pharmacie de Monastir, Université de Monastir, Laboratoire des Maladies Transmissibles et Substances Biologiquement Actives LR99ES27, Monastir 5000, Tunisia.
Mahjoub AouniFaculté de Pharmacie de Monastir, Université de Monastir, Laboratoire des Maladies Transmissibles et Substances Biologiquement Actives LR99ES27, Monastir 5000, Tunisia.
Vincent GeenenFaculté de Médicine, Université de Liège, GIGA-I3 Immunoendocrinologie, CHU-B34, B-4000 Liege, Sart Tilman, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-8733-7284
Hela JaïdaneFaculté de Pharmacie de Monastir, Université de Monastir, Laboratoire des Maladies Transmissibles et Substances Biologiquement Actives LR99ES27, Monastir 5000, Tunisia.
University of Liège · BEUniversity of Monastir · TNTunis University · TN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The thymus fulfills the role of T-cell production and differentiation. Studying transcription factors and genes involved in T-cell differentiation and maturation during the fetal and neonatal periods is very important. Nevertheless, no studies to date have been interested in evaluating the expressions of housekeeping genes as internal controls to assess the varying expressions of different genes inside this tissue during that period or in the context of viral infection. Thus, we evaluated by real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) the expression of the most common internal control genes in the thymus of Swiss albino mice during the fetal and neonatal period, and following in utero infection with Coxsackievirus B4. The stability of expression of these reference genes in different samples was investigated using the geNorm application. Results demonstrated that the expression stability varied greatly between genes.

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Genes, EssentialAnimalsCoxsackievirus InfectionsMiceProteinsThymus GlandTranscriptomeornithine decarboxylase antizymeProteinsCoxsackievirus B4housekeeping genesin utero infectionswiss albino micethymic epithelial cellsthymus development

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PMID32150956
PMCPMC7140870
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