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ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2016

Essential Oils from Ugandan Medicinal Plants:

Francis Ocheng, Freddie Bwanga, Elisabeth Almer Boström, Moses Joloba, Anna-Karin Borg-Karlson, Tülay Yucel-Lindberg, Celestino Obua, Anders Gustafsson

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Article in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 16% 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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 17 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

8 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Francis OchengDepartment of Dentistry, School of Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, P.O. Box 7072, Kampala, Uganda.ORCID 0000-0002-6964-0159
Freddie BwangaDepartment of Medical Microbiology, School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, P.O. Box 7072, Kampala, Uganda.
Elisabeth Almer BoströmDepartment of Dental Medicine, Unit of Periodontology, Karolinska Institutet, P.O. Box 4064, 141 04 Huddinge, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-1788-7501
Moses JolobaDepartment of Medical Microbiology, School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, P.O. Box 7072, Kampala, Uganda.
Anna-Karin Borg-KarlsonEcological Chemistry Group, Department of Chemistry, School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden.
Tülay Yucel-LindbergDepartment of Dental Medicine, Unit of Periodontology, Karolinska Institutet, P.O. Box 4064, 141 04 Huddinge, Sweden.
Celestino ObuaMbarara University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 1410, Mbarara, Uganda.
Anders GustafssonDepartment of Dental Medicine, Unit of Periodontology, Karolinska Institutet, P.O. Box 4064, 141 04 Huddinge, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-6481-858X
Karolinska Institutet · SEMakerere University · UGKTH Royal Institute of Technology · SEMbarara University of Science and Technology · UG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The study investigated cytotoxicity of essential oils from four medicinal plants (

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PMID27807462
PMCPMC5078667
OpenAlexW2531546244

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