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ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2016

Preparation, Characterization and in Vivo Antimycobacterial Studies of Panchovillin-Chitosan Nanocomposites.

Edward Rwegasila, Egid B Mubofu, Stephen S Nyandoro, Paul Erasto, Joan J E Munissi

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Article in International journal of molecular sciences, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 20% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 20 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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Edward RwegasilaChemistry Department, College of Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Dar es Salaam, P.O. Box 35061, 14115 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. edrwega@yahoo.com.
Egid B MubofuChemistry Department, College of Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Dar es Salaam, P.O. Box 35061, 14115 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. ebmubofu@udsm.ac.tz.
Stephen S NyandoroChemistry Department, College of Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Dar es Salaam, P.O. Box 35061, 14115 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. nyandoro@udsm.ac.tz.
Paul ErastoNational Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), P.O. Box 9653, 14115 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. paulkazyoba@yahoo.co.uk.
Joan J E MunissiChemistry Department, College of Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Dar es Salaam, P.O. Box 35061, 14115 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. joan.munissi@udsm.ac.tz.
University of Dar es Salaam · TZNational Institute for Medical Research · TZ

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chitosan (CS, molecular weight 20.2 kDa, degree of deacylation (DD) 73.31%) was successfully obtained by deacetylation of chitin extracted from shrimp (

Indexed as

antimycobacterialchitosanGalleria mellonellananocompositespanchovillin

Identifiers

PMID27689997
PMCPMC5085621
OpenAlexW2525341623

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