Evidence map›Paper›PMID 21167830›Full record

ReviewExperimental neurology2011

Stronger is not always better: could a bodybuilding dietary supplement lead to ALS?

Marin Manuel, C J Heckman

Open access · bronzeAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Experimental neurology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 26% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Premature Death in Bodybuilders: What Do We Know?Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2023
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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Marin ManuelNorthwestern University, Department of Physiology, 303 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. marin.manuel@northwestern.edu
C J Heckman
Northwestern University · US

Funding

MONOAMINES EFFECTS ON MOTONEURON DISCHARGE PATTERNSR01NS034382 · NINDS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI HECKMAN, CHARLES · 1996 to 2013
$3.9M
Increased persistent sodium current in SOD1 motoneuronsR01NS051462 · NINDS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI HECKMAN, CHARLES · 2005 to 2009
$1.6M
Computer simulations of populations of mammalian motor unitsR01NS071951 · NINDS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI HECKMAN, CHARLES · 2010 to 2014
$1.5M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS034382NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS051462NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS071951
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Resistance TrainingAmino Acids, Branched-ChainAmyotrophic Lateral SclerosisAnimalsDietary SupplementsHumansMuscle StrengthAmino Acids, Branched-Chain

Identifiers

PMID21167830
PMCPMC3049458
OpenAlexW2067565285

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.