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ReviewJournal of traditional and complementary medicine2011

Anti-inflammatory activity of traditional Chinese medicinal herbs.

Min-Hsiung Pan, Yi-Shiou Chiou, Mei-Ling Tsai, Chi-Tang Ho

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Review in Journal of traditional and complementary medicine, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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58citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

58 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 114 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Min-Hsiung PanDepartment of Seafood Science, National Kaohsiung Marine University, Kaohsiung 811, Taiwan.
Yi-Shiou ChiouDepartment of Seafood Science, National Kaohsiung Marine University, Kaohsiung 811, Taiwan.
Mei-Ling TsaiDepartment of Seafood Science, National Kaohsiung Marine University, Kaohsiung 811, Taiwan.
Chi-Tang HoDepartment of Food Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-8520, USA.
National Kaohsiung Marine University · TWRutgers, The State University of New Jersey · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accumulating epidemiological and clinical evidence shows that inflammation is an important risk factor for various human diseases. Thus, suppressing chronic inflammation has the potential to delay, prevent, and control various chronic diseases, including cerebrovascular, cardiovascular, joint, skin, pulmonary, blood, lymph, liver, pancreatic, and intestinal diseases. Various natural products from traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) have been shown to safely suppress proinflammatory pathways and control inflammation-associated disease. In vivo and/or in vitro studies have demonstrated that anti-inflammatory effects of TCM occur by inhibition of the expression of master transcription factors (for example, nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB)), pro-inflammatory cytokines (for example, tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), chemokines (for example, chemokine (C-C motif) ligand (CCL)-24), intercellular adhesion molecule expression and pro-inflammatory mediators (for example, inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and cyclooxygenase 2 (COX2)). However, a handful of review articles have focused on the anti-inflammatory activities of TCM and explore their possible mechanisms of action. In this review, we summarize recent research attempting to identify the anti-inflammatory constituents of TCM and their molecular targets that may create new opportunities for innovation in modern pharmacology.

Indexed as

Anti-inflammatory activityPro-inflammatory cytokinesTraditional Chinese medicinal herbs

Identifiers

PMID24716101
PMCPMC3943005
OpenAlexW2398641754

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