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ReviewLab animal2021

C. elegans: A biosensor for host-microbe interactions.

Cassandra Backes, Daniel Martinez-Martinez, Filipe Cabreiro

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Review in Lab animal, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
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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

19 citing papers in PubMed.

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  17. The role of nutrition and oxidative stress as aging factors inJournal of clinical biochemistry and nutrition · 2023
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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.

Cassandra Backes *MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0253-5677
Daniel Martinez-Martinez *MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8468-1357
Filipe CabreiroMRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, UK. f.cabreiro@lms.mrc.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3696-4843

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_UP_1605/6RCUK | Medical Research Council (MRC) MC-A654-5QC80Wellcome Trust (Wellcome) 102531/Z/13/A
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microbes are an integral part of life on this planet. Microbes and their hosts influence each other in an endless dance that shapes how the meta-organism interacts with its environment. Although great advances have been made in microbiome research over the past 20 years, the mechanisms by which both hosts and their microbes interact with each other and the environment are still not well understood. The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has been widely used as a model organism to study a remarkable number of human-like processes. Recent evidence shows that the worm is a powerful tool to investigate in fine detail the complexity that exists in microbe-host interactions. By combining the large array of genetic tools available for both organisms together with deep phenotyping approaches, it has been possible to uncover key effectors in the complex relationship between microbes and their hosts. In this perspective, we survey the literature for insightful discoveries in the microbiome field using the worm as a model. We discuss the latest conceptual and technological advances in the field and highlight the strengths that make C. elegans a valuable biosensor tool for the study of microbe-host interactions.

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Biosensing TechniquesMicrobiotaAnimalsCaenorhabditis elegansHumans

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