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ReviewFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology2020

The Dynamic Roles of the Inner Membrane Complex in the Multiple Stages of the Malaria Parasite.

Josie Liane Ferreira, Dorothee Heincke, Jan Stephan Wichers, Benjamin Liffner, Danny W Wilson, Tim-Wolf Gilberger

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Review in Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers.

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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

48 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

6 authors.

Josie Liane FerreiraCentre for Structural Systems Biology, Hamburg, Germany.
Dorothee HeinckeBernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany.
Jan Stephan WichersCentre for Structural Systems Biology, Hamburg, Germany.
Benjamin LiffnerResearch Centre for Infectious Diseases, School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Danny W WilsonResearch Centre for Infectious Diseases, School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Tim-Wolf GilbergerCentre for Structural Systems Biology, Hamburg, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Apicomplexan parasites, such as human malaria parasites, have complex lifecycles encompassing multiple and diverse environmental niches. Invading, replicating, and escaping from different cell types, along with exploiting each intracellular niche, necessitate large and dynamic changes in parasite morphology and cellular architecture. The inner membrane complex (IMC) is a unique structural element that is intricately involved with these distinct morphological changes. The IMC is a double membrane organelle that forms

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MalariaParasitesPlasmodiumAnimalsCell MembraneHumansPlasmodium falciparumProtozoan ProteinsProtozoan ProteinsAlveolataApicomplexainner membrane complexmalariamembrane dynamicsPlasmodium

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PMID33489940
PMCPMC7820811

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