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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2022

Ageing leads to reduced specificity of antimicrobial peptide responses in

Biswajit Shit, Arun Prakash, Saubhik Sarkar, Pedro F Vale, Imroze Khan

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 16% 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

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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Pathogen growth and virulence dynamics drive the host evolution against coinfections.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  7. When the microbiome shapes the host: immune evolution implications for infectious disease.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024
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  10. Unraveling the Role of Antimicrobial Peptides in Insects.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Biswajit ShitAshoka University, Plot No. 2, Rajiv Gandhi Education City, National Capital Region P.O. Rai, Sonepat, Haryana-131029, India.
Arun PrakashInstitute of Ecology and Evolution, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FL, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1337-5613
Saubhik SarkarAshoka University, Plot No. 2, Rajiv Gandhi Education City, National Capital Region P.O. Rai, Sonepat, Haryana-131029, India.
Pedro F ValeInstitute of Ecology and Evolution, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FL, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-4558-9202
Imroze KhanAshoka University, Plot No. 2, Rajiv Gandhi Education City, National Capital Region P.O. Rai, Sonepat, Haryana-131029, India.ORCID 0000-0002-0110-2274
Ashoka University · INUniversity of Edinburgh · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Evolutionary theory predicts a late-life decline in the force of natural selection, possibly leading to late-life deregulations of the immune system. A potential outcome of such deregulations is the inability to produce specific immunity against target pathogens. We tested this possibility by infecting multiple

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Drosophila melanogasterDrosophila ProteinsAgingAnimalsAntimicrobial Cationic PeptidesAntimicrobial PeptidesFemaleImmunity, InnateMaleAntimicrobial Cationic PeptidesAntimicrobial PeptidesDrosophila Proteinsageingantimicrobial peptidesimmune senescenceimmune specificitypathogen resistancesexual dimorphism

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PMID36382522
PMCPMC9667363
OpenAlexW4309118771

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