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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2017

Chitin Adsorbents for Toxic Metals: A Review.

Ioannis Anastopoulos, Amit Bhatnagar, Dimitrios N Bikiaris, George Z Kyzas

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
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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

26 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Bioactive Compounds and Antioxidant Activity ofMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  3. Article
  4. Safety of frozen and dried forms of whole yellow mealworm (EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2025
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  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Review
  8. Safety of UV-treated powder of whole yellow mealworm (EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2023
    Article
  9. Review
  10. Safety of frozen and freeze-dried formulations of the lesser mealworm (EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2022
    Article
  11. Safety of partially defatted house cricket (EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2022
    Article
  12. Article
  13. Review
  14. Safety of frozen and dried formulations from whole yellow mealworm (EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2021
    Article
  15. Article
  16. Safety of frozen and dried formulations from migratory locust (EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2021
    Article
  17. Article
  18. Safety of dried yellow mealworm (EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2021
    Article
  19. Influences of chemically controlled Ca-bearing minerals in chitosan on PbJournal of environmental health science & engineering · 2020
    Article
  20. Article
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

4 authors.

Ioannis AnastopoulosLaboratory of Soils and Agricultural Chemistry, Department of Natural Resources and Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural University of Athens, GR-118 55 Athens, Greece. ianastopoulos@ari.gov.cy.
Amit BhatnagarDepartment of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, P.O. Box 1627, FI-70211 Kuopio, Finland. amit.bhatnagar@uef.fi.
Dimitrios N BikiarisDivision of Chemical Technology, Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR-54124 Thessaloniki, Greece. dbic@chem.auth.gr.
George Z KyzasHephaestus Advanced Laboratory, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology, GR-65404 Kavala, Greece. georgekyzas@gmail.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Wastewater treatment is still a critical issue all over the world. Among examined methods for the decontamination of wastewaters, adsorption is a promising, cheap, environmentally friendly and efficient procedure. There are various types of adsorbents that have been used to remove different pollutants such as agricultural waste, compost, nanomaterials, algae, etc., Chitin (poly-β-(1,4)-

Indexed as

AdsorptionChitinMetals, HeavyThermodynamicsWater Pollutants, ChemicalChitinMetals, HeavyWater Pollutants, Chemicaladsorptionchitinsheavy metalsisothermsthermodynamics

Identifiers

PMID28067848
PMCPMC5297748

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