Evidence map›Paper›PMID 22683550›Full record

ReviewAging2012

Role of apoptosis in disease.

Bartolo Favaloro, Nerino Allocati, Vincenzo Graziano, Carmine Di Ilio, Vincenzo De Laurenzi

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In one paragraph

Review in Aging, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 215 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
215citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
17.9field-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

215 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 576 citations in OpenAlex.

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155 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

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Bartolo FavaloroDipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Universita' "G. d'Annunzio" Chieti-Pescara, Italy.
Nerino Allocati
Vincenzo Graziano
Carmine Di Ilio
Vincenzo De Laurenzi
University of Chieti-Pescara · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since the initial description of apoptosis, a number of different forms of cell death have been described. In this review we will focus on classic caspase-dependent apoptosis and its variations that contribute to diseases. Over fifty years of research have clarified molecular mechanisms involved in apoptotic signaling as well and shown that alterations of these pathways lead to human diseases. Indeed both reduced and increased apoptosis can result in pathology. More recently these findings have led to the development of therapeutic approaches based on regulation of apoptosis, some of which are in clinical trials or have entered medical practice.

Indexed as

ApoptosisAnimalsAutoimmune DiseasesCaspasesCommunicable DiseasesDiseaseHeart DiseasesHumansNeoplasmsNervous System DiseasesSignal TransductionCaspases

Identifiers

PMID22683550
PMCPMC3384434
OpenAlexW2187458946

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Registered trials

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