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| Title |
Zika virus and neurologic autoimmunity: the putative role of gangliosides
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| Published in |
BMC Medicine, March 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12916-016-0601-y |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Juan-Manuel Anaya, Carolina Ramirez-Santana, Ignacio Salgado-Castaneda, Christopher Chang, Aftab Ansari, M. Eric Gershwin |
| Abstract |
An increasing number of severe neurological complications associated with Zika virus (ZIKV), chiefly Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) and primary microcephaly, have led the World Health Organization to declare a global health emergency. Molecular mimicry between glycolipids and surface molecules of infectious agents explain most of the cases of GBS preceded by infection, while a direct toxicity of ZIKV on neural cells has been raised as the main mechanism by which ZIKV induces microcephaly. Gangliosides are crucial in brain development, and their expression correlates with neurogenesis, synaptogenesis, synaptic transmission, and cell proliferation. Targeting the autoimmune response to gangliosides may represent an underexploited opportunity to examine the increased incidence of neurological complications related to ZIKV infection. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 12 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 42% |
| Chile | 1 | 8% |
| Brazil | 1 | 8% |
| Ecuador | 1 | 8% |
| Colombia | 1 | 8% |
| Unknown | 3 | 25% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 10 | 83% |
| Scientists | 2 | 17% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 205 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Colombia | 2 | <1% |
| Brazil | 2 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| New Zealand | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 197 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 40 | 20% |
| Student > Bachelor | 31 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 27 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 21 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 15 | 7% |
| Other | 45 | 22% |
| Unknown | 26 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 63 | 31% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 31 | 15% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 16 | 8% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 14 | 7% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 9 | 4% |
| Other | 34 | 17% |
| Unknown | 38 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 October 2017.
All research outputs
#3,875,229
of 23,577,654 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#2,036
of 3,569 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#60,009
of 301,151 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#33
of 53 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,577,654 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 83rd percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,569 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 44.5. This one is in the 42nd percentile – i.e., 42% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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