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SynthesisRedox biology2015

Antioxidant therapy for treatment of inflammatory bowel disease: Does it work?

Fabiana Andréa Moura, Kívia Queiroz de Andrade, Juliana Célia Farias Dos Santos, Orlando Roberto Pimentel Araújo, Marília Oliveira Fonseca Goulart

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In one paragraph

Synthesis in Redox biology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 147 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
147citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
19.3field-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

147 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 377 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Fabiana Andréa MouraFaculdade de Nutrição/Universidade Federal de Alagoas (FANUT/UFAL), Brazil; Pós Graduação em Ciências da Saúde (PPGCS)/ Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brazil. Electronic address: fabianamoura_al@hotmail.com.
Kívia Queiroz de AndradePós Graduação em Ciências da Saúde (PPGCS)/ Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brazil. Electronic address: kiviaqueiroz@hotmail.com.
Juliana Célia Farias Dos SantosFaculdade de Nutrição/Universidade Federal de Alagoas (FANUT/UFAL), Brazil; Instituto de Química e Biotecnologia (IQB), Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL), Brazil. Electronic address: jcfs_nut@yahoo.com.br.
Orlando Roberto Pimentel AraújoInstituto de Química e Biotecnologia (IQB), Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL), Brazil. Electronic address: orlanforpa@hotmail.com.br.
Marília Oliveira Fonseca GoulartInstituto de Química e Biotecnologia (IQB), Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL), Brazil. Electronic address: mariliaofg@gmail.com.
Universidade Federal de Alagoas · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oxidative stress (OS) is considered as one of the etiologic factors involved in several signals and symptoms of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) that include diarrhea, toxic megacolon and abdominal pain. This systematic review discusses approaches, challenges and perspectives into the use of nontraditional antioxidant therapy on IBD, including natural and synthetic compounds in both human and animal models. One hundred and thirty four papers were identified, of which only four were evaluated in humans. Some of the challenges identified in this review can shed light on this fact: lack of standardization of OS biomarkers, absence of safety data and clinical trials for the chemicals and biological molecules, as well as the fact that most of the compounds were not repeatedly tested in several situations, including acute and chronic colitis. This review hopes to stimulate researchers to become more involved in this fruitful area, to warrant investigation of novel, alternative and efficacious antioxidant-based therapies.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntioxidantsHumansInflammatory Bowel DiseasesOxidative StressTreatment OutcomeAntioxidantsAntioxidant therapyBiomarkersComplementary and alternative medicineCrohn's diseaseInflammatory bowel diseasesNutraceuticalsOxidative stressUlcerative colitis

Identifiers

PMID26520808
PMCPMC4637335
OpenAlexW1867120196

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