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ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2017

Simvastatin Attenuates Endothelial Activation through 15-Epi-Lipoxin A4 Production in Murine Chronic Chagas Cardiomyopathy.

Fabiola González-Herrera, Allysson Cramer, Pollyana Pimentel, Christian Castillo, Ana Liempi, Ulrike Kemmerling, Fabiana S Machado, Juan D Maya

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Article in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 15% 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

20 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Fabiola González-HerreraPrograma de Farmacología Molecular y Clínica-ICBM, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Allysson CramerProgram in Health Sciences: Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical School, and Departments of Biochemistry and Immunology, Microbiology, and Pathology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Pollyana PimentelProgram in Health Sciences: Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical School, and Departments of Biochemistry and Immunology, Microbiology, and Pathology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Christian CastilloPrograma de Anatomía y Biología del Desarrollo-ICBM, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Ana LiempiPrograma de Anatomía y Biología del Desarrollo-ICBM, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Ulrike KemmerlingPrograma de Anatomía y Biología del Desarrollo-ICBM, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Fabiana S MachadoProgram in Health Sciences: Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical School, and Departments of Biochemistry and Immunology, Microbiology, and Pathology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Juan D MayaPrograma de Farmacología Molecular y Clínica-ICBM, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile jmaya@med.uchile.cl.ORCID 0000-0003-3934-6319
University of Chile · CLUniversidade Federal de Minas Gerais · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Current treatments for chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy, a disease with high mortality rates and caused by the protozoan

Indexed as

AnimalsAnticholesteremic AgentsArachidonate 5-LipoxygenaseChagas CardiomyopathyChronic DiseaseDisease Models, AnimalDrug Therapy, CombinationEndotheliumE-SelectinGene Expression RegulationHumansIntercellular Adhesion Molecule-1LipoxinsMaleMiceMice, Inbred BALB CAnticholesteremic AgentsArachidonate 5-LipoxygenasebenzonidazoleE-SelectinIcam1 protein, mouseIntercellular Adhesion Molecule-1lipoxin A4LipoxinsNitroimidazolesSimvastatinTrypanocidal AgentsVascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-115-epi-lipoxin A45-lipoxygenaseCAMChagas diseasechronic cardiomyopathysimvastatin

Identifiers

PMID27993857
PMCPMC5328563
OpenAlexW2567291759

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