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ArticleJournal of traditional and complementary medicine2016

Enhancement of the Th1-phenotype immune system by the intake of Oyster mushroom (Tamogitake) extract in a double-blind, placebo-controlled study.

Aiko Tanaka, Mie Nishimura, Yuji Sato, Hiroki Sato, Jun Nishihira

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Article in Journal of traditional and complementary medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 10% 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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Anti-Inflammatory Mechanisms ofJournal of microbiology and biotechnology · 2025
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  6. Natural Ingredients to Improve Immunity.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  8. Fresh Mushroom Preservation Techniques.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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  10. Medicinal Mushrooms: Bioactive Compounds, Use, and Clinical Trials.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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  13. A Pragmatic Approach to Immunity & Respiratory Viral Infections.Integrative medicine (Encinitas, Calif.) · 2020
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  15. Modulation of NKG2D, KIR2DL and Cytokine Production byFrontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2019
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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.

Aiko TanakaDepartment of Medical Management and Informatics, Hokkaido Information University, Hokkaido, Japan.
Mie NishimuraDepartment of Medical Management and Informatics, Hokkaido Information University, Hokkaido, Japan.
Yuji SatoDepartment of Medical Management and Informatics, Hokkaido Information University, Hokkaido, Japan.
Hiroki SatoDepartment of Medical Management and Informatics, Hokkaido Information University, Hokkaido, Japan.
Jun NishihiraDepartment of Medical Management and Informatics, Hokkaido Information University, Hokkaido, Japan.
Hokkaido Information University · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Clinical trialIFN-γNK cellOyster mushroomTh1/Th2

Identifiers

PMID27774430
PMCPMC5067930
OpenAlexW2199708288

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Registered trials

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