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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2021

The Placental Response to Guinea Pig Cytomegalovirus Depends Upon the Timing of Maternal Infection.

Zachary W Berkebile, Dira S Putri, Juan E Abrahante, Davis M Seelig, Mark R Schleiss, Craig J Bierle

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Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 32% of its field
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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Zachary W BerkebileDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States.
Dira S PutriDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States.
Juan E AbrahanteInformatics Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States.
Davis M SeeligDepartment of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States.
Mark R SchleissDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States.
Craig J BierleDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States.
University of Minnesota · US

Funding

University of Minnesota Clinical and Translational Science Institute (UMN CTSI)UL1TR002494 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI BLAZAR, BRUCE R, WEISDORF, DANIEL J · 2018 to 2022
$34.9M
Optimizing Immunity and Maternal Host Defense Against Congenital Cytomegalovirus InfectionR01HD098866 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI Craig John Bierle, Michael A McVoy · 2019 to 2026
$3.9M
Defining the viral determinants of cytomegalovirus transplacental transmissionR21HD087496 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI BIERLE, CRAIG JOHN · 2017 to 2018
$420k
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR002494NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD098866NICHD NIH HHS R21 HD087496
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infects the placenta, and these placental infections can cause fetal injury and/or demise. The timing of maternal HCMV infection during pregnancy is a determinant of fetal outcomes, but how development affects the placenta's susceptibility to infection, the likelihood of placental injury post-infection, and the frequency of transplacental HCMV transmission remains unclear. In this study, guinea pig cytomegalovirus (GPCMV) was used to model primary maternal infection and compare the effects of infection at two different times on the placenta. When guinea pigs were infected with GPCMV at either 21- or 35-days gestation (dGA), maternal and placental viral loads, as determined by droplet digital PCR, were not significantly affected by the timing of maternal infection. However, when the transcriptomes of gestational age-matched GPCMV-infected and control placentas were compared, significant infection-associated changes in gene expression were only observed after maternal infection at 35 dGA. Notably, transcripts associated with immune activation (e.g.

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AnimalsCytomegalovirusCytomegalovirus InfectionsFemaleGuinea PigsPlacentaPregnancyPregnancy Complications, InfectiousViral Loadcongenital infectioncytomegalovirusfetal membranesguinea piginflammationplacenta

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PMID34211475
PMCPMC8239309
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