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ReviewNature reviews. Drug discovery2010

The therapeutic potential of carbon monoxide.

Roberto Motterlini, Leo E Otterbein

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Review in Nature reviews. Drug discovery, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 514 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
514citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
27.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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

514 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 1,596 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Angiogenic Doping: Plausible Yet Difficult to Detect.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026
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  12. Intracellular Crosstalk of the Gasotransmitter Trio (NO, CO, HInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  14. Heme Metabolism-Derived Carbon Monoxide Regulates Skeletal Muscle Function.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2026
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  18. It's a Gas: Bioconjugation With Vapor-Phase Reagents.Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026
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  20. Healing in a bubble.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2026
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454 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Roberto MotterliniDrug Discovery and Development, Italian Institute of Technology, Via Morego 30, Genoa, Italy.
Leo E Otterbein
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · USItalian Institute of Technology · IT

Funding

Examining Carbon Monoxide to Treat Inflammatory Conditions using Experimental Colitis ModelsR01DK119202 · NIDDK · GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI OTTERBEIN, LEO E, TAN, CHALET · 2019 to 2023
$3.6M
Endogenous Gas Molecules As Transcription FactorsR01GM088666 · NIGMS · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI OTTERBEIN, LEO E · 2009 to 2012
$1.4M
NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK119202NIGMS NIH HHS 5R01GM088666
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Carbon monoxide (CO) is increasingly being accepted as a cytoprotective and homeostatic molecule with important signalling capabilities in physiological and pathophysiological situations. The endogenous production of CO occurs through the activity of constitutive (haem oxygenase 2) and inducible (haem oxygenase 1) haem oxygenases, enzymes that are responsible for the catabolism of haem. Through the generation of its products, which in addition to CO includes the bile pigments biliverdin, bilirubin and ferrous iron, the haem oxygenase 1 system also has an obligatory role in the regulation of the stress response and in cell adaptation to injury. This Review provides an overview of the physiology of CO, summarizes the effects of CO gas and CO-releasing molecules in preclinical animal models of cardiovascular disease, inflammatory disorders and organ transplantation, and discusses the development and therapeutic options for the exploitation of this simple gaseous molecule.

Indexed as

AnimalsCarbon MonoxideCardiovascular DiseasesHomeostasisHumansInflammationOrgan TransplantationSignal TransductionCarbon Monoxide

Identifiers

PMID20811383
OpenAlexW2049800847

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