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ArticleEMBO reports2009

Natural products and drug discovery. Can thousands of years of ancient medical knowledge lead us to new and powerful drug combinations in the fight against cancer and dementia?

Hong-Fang Ji, Xue-Juan Li, Hong-Yu Zhang

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Article in EMBO reports, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 195 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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195citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
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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

195 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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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.

Hong-Fang JiShandong Provincial Research Center for Bioinformatic Engineering and Technique, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo, People's Republic of China.
Xue-Juan Li
Hong-Yu Zhang

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Drug DiscoveryMedicine, TraditionalAnimalsBiological ProductsDementiaHistory of MedicineHumansMolecular ConformationNeoplasmsPlant ExtractsBiological ProductsPlant Extracts

Identifiers

PMID19229284
PMCPMC2658564

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Registered trials

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