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ReviewNutrients2011

Probiotics in inflammatory bowel diseases and associated conditions.

David R Mack

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In one paragraph

Review in Nutrients, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
31citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.2field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 79 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Saudi consensus guidance for the diagnosis and management of inflammatory bowel disease in children and adolescents.Saudi journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Saudi Gastroenterology Association · 2025
    Guideline
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  8. Frontiers in nutrition · 2023
    Article
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  10. Considerations for determining safety of probiotics: A USP perspective.Regulatory toxicology and pharmacology : RTP · 2022
    Review
  11. Article
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  17. Probiotics in Medicine: A Long Debate.Frontiers in immunology · 2020
    Review
  18. Inhibitory Effects of theFrontiers in immunology · 2020
    Article
  19. Article
  20. Probiotics, prebiotics and amelioration of diseases.Journal of biomedical science · 2019
    Review
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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

David R MackChildren's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario K1H 8L1, Canada. dmack@cheo.on.ca
Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A complex set of interactions between the human genes encoding innate protective functions and immune defenses and the environment of the intestinal mucosa with its microbiota is currently considered key to the pathogenesis of the chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). Probiotics offer a method to potentially alter the intestinal microbiome exogenously or may provide an option to deliver microbial metabolic products to alter the chronicity of intestinal mucosal inflammation characterizing IBD. At present, there is little evidence for the benefit of currently used probiotic microbes in Crohn's disease or associated conditions affecting extra-intestinal organs. However, clinical practice guidelines are now including a probiotic as an option for recurrent and relapsing antibiotic sensitive pouchitis and the use of probiotics in mild ulcerative colitis is provocative and suggests potential for benefit in select patients but concerns remain about proof from trials.

Indexed as

BacteriaColitis, UlcerativeCrohn DiseaseHumansInflammationIntestinal MucosaPouchitisPractice Guidelines as TopicProbioticsarthralgiaCrohn’s diseaseinductionmaintenancepouchitisremissionsclerosing cholangitisspondyloartopathyulcerative colitis

Identifiers

PMID22254095
PMCPMC3257670
OpenAlexW2040986764

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Registered trials

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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.