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ReviewNature reviews. Cardiology2011

Metabolomics as a tool for cardiac research.

Julian L Griffin, Helen Atherton, John Shockcor, Luigi Atzori

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Review in Nature reviews. Cardiology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 132 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
132citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
7.1field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

132 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 281 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. The effect of perhexiline on myocardial protection during coronary artery surgery: a two-centre, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery · 2015
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  17. Metabolomics Insights into the Benefits of SGLT2 Inhibitors in Type 2 Diabetes.Clinical pharmacology : advances and applications · 2025
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  19. Recent advances associated with cardiometabolic remodeling in diabetes-induced heart failure.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2024
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72 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

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Julian L GriffinMRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NL, UK. jules.griffin@ mrc-hnr.cam.ac.uk
Helen Atherton
John Shockcor
Luigi Atzori
University of Cambridge · GBMRC Human Nutrition Research · GBUniversity of Cagliari · IT

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/H013539/1Department of Health G0801841Medical Research Council G0801841Medical Research Council MC_UP_A090_1006Wellcome Trust 093,148/Z/10/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Metabolomics represents a paradigm shift in metabolic research, away from approaches that focus on a limited number of enzymatic reactions or single pathways, to approaches that attempt to capture the complexity of metabolic networks. Additionally, the high-throughput nature of metabolomics makes it ideal to perform biomarker screens for diseases or follow drug efficacy. In this Review, we explore the role of metabolomics in gaining mechanistic insight into cardiac disease processes, and in the search for novel biomarkers. High-resolution NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry are both highly discriminatory for a range of pathological processes affecting the heart, including cardiac ischemia, myocardial infarction, and heart failure. We also discuss the position of metabolomics in the range of functional-genomic approaches, being complementary to proteomic and transcriptomic studies, and having subdivisions such as lipidomics (the study of intact lipid species). In addition to techniques that monitor changes in the total sizes of pools of metabolites in the heart and biofluids, the role of stable-isotope methods for monitoring fluxes through pathways is examined. The use of these novel functional-genomic tools to study metabolism provides a unique insight into cardiac disease progression.

Indexed as

BiomarkersBiomedical TechnologyCardiovascular DiseasesHumansMagnetic Resonance SpectroscopyMass SpectrometryMetabolic Networks and PathwaysBiomarkers

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PMID21931361
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