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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019

African trypanosomes expressing multiple VSGs are rapidly eliminated by the host immune system.

Francisco Aresta-Branco, Margarida Sanches-Vaz, Fabio Bento, João A Rodrigues, Luisa M Figueiredo

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. A factor integrating transcription and repression of surface antigen genes in African trypanosomes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  9. Nuclear Condensates: New Targets to Combat Parasite Immune Evasion?Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022
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  12. Regulation of Antigenic Variation byPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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  15. Science advances · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Francisco Aresta-BrancoInstituto de Medicina Molecular-João Lobo Antunes, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-028 Lisboa, Portugal.
Margarida Sanches-VazInstituto de Medicina Molecular-João Lobo Antunes, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-028 Lisboa, Portugal.
Fabio BentoInstituto de Medicina Molecular-João Lobo Antunes, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-028 Lisboa, Portugal.
João A RodriguesInstituto de Medicina Molecular-João Lobo Antunes, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-028 Lisboa, Portugal.
Luisa M FigueiredoInstituto de Medicina Molecular-João Lobo Antunes, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-028 Lisboa, Portugal; lmf@medicina.ulisboa.pt.ORCID 0000-0002-5752-6586

Funding

Howard Hughes Medical Institute 55007419
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

AnimalsAntigenic VariationHMGB ProteinsHost-Parasite InteractionsImmune SystemMiceParasitemiaTrypanosoma brucei bruceiTrypanosomiasis, AfricanVariant Surface Glycoproteins, TrypanosomaHMGB ProteinsVariant Surface Glycoproteins, Trypanosomaadaptive immune responsemonoallelic expressionTDP1Trypanosoma bruceivariant surface glycoprotein

Identifiers

PMID31554700
PMCPMC6789922

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