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ReviewJournal of tropical medicine2016

Antibacterial Action of Curcumin against

Sin-Yeang Teow, Kitson Liew, Syed A Ali, Alan Soo-Beng Khoo, Suat-Cheng Peh

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Review in Journal of tropical medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 91 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
91citing papers in PubMed
8.7field-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

91 citing papers in PubMed, 312 citations in OpenAlex.

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  17. Targeted inhibition ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2025
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31 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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 3 institutions in 1 country.

Sin-Yeang TeowSunway Institute for Healthcare Development (SIHD), Sunway University, 47500 Bandar Sunway, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.ORCID 0000-0002-3824-0224
Kitson LiewMolecular Pathology Unit, Cancer Research Centre (CaRC), Institute for Medical Research (IMR), 50588 Jalan Pahang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Syed A AliAdvanced Medical and Dental Institute (AMDI), Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), 13200 Kepala Batas, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia.
Alan Soo-Beng KhooMolecular Pathology Unit, Cancer Research Centre (CaRC), Institute for Medical Research (IMR), 50588 Jalan Pahang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Institute for Research, Development and Innovation, International Medical University (IMU), 57000 Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Suat-Cheng PehSunway Institute for Healthcare Development (SIHD), Sunway University, 47500 Bandar Sunway, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia; Anatomical Pathology Department, Sunway Medical Centre, 47500 Bandar Sunway, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.
Institute for Medical Research · MYSunway University · MYUniversiti Sains Malaysia · MY

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Curcumin, the major constituent of

Identifiers

PMID27956904
PMCPMC5124450
OpenAlexW2549535358

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