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ReviewMediators of inflammation2020

The Central Role and Possible Mechanisms of Bacterial DNAs in Sepsis Development.

Zhenxing Cheng, Simon T Abrams, James Austin, Julien Toh, Susan Siyu Wang, Zhi Wang, Qian Yu, Weiping Yu, Cheng Hock Toh, Guozheng Wang

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Review in Mediators of inflammation, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 32% 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

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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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 14 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

10 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Zhenxing ChengDepartment of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7BE, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0847-2582
Simon T AbramsDepartment of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7BE, UK.
James AustinDepartment of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7BE, UK.
Julien TohWirral University Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Arrowe Park Road, Upton, Wirral CH49 5PE, UK.
Susan Siyu WangRoyal London Hospital, Whitechapel Rd, Whitechapel, London E1 1FR, UK.
Zhi WangMedical School, Southeast University, Nanjing 21009, China.
Qian YuMedical School, Southeast University, Nanjing 21009, China.
Weiping YuMedical School, Southeast University, Nanjing 21009, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3968-3104
Cheng Hock TohDepartment of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7BE, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9708-8883
Guozheng WangDepartment of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7BE, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5525-3548
University of Liverpool · GBSoutheast University · CNRoyal London Hospital · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The pathological roles of bacterial DNA have been documented many decades ago. Bacterial DNAs are different from mammalian DNAs; the latter are heavily methylated. Mammalian cells have sensors such as TLR-9 to sense the DNAs with nonmethylated CpGs and distinguish them from host DNAs with methylated CpGs. Further investigation has identified many other types of DNA sensors distributed in a variety of cellular compartments. These sensors not only sense foreign DNAs, including bacterial and viral DNAs, but also sense damaged DNAs from the host cells. The major downstream signalling pathways includeTLR-9-MyD88-IKKa-IRF-7/NF-

Indexed as

AnimalsDNA, BacterialHumansNF-kappa BSepsisSignal TransductionDNA, BacterialNF-kappa B

Identifiers

PMID32934605
PMCPMC7479481
OpenAlexW3082432828

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