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Trial reportBioMed research international2016

Seminal miRNA Relationship with Apoptotic Markers and Oxidative Stress in Infertile Men with Varicocele.

Taymour Mostafa, Laila A Rashed, Nashaat I Nabil, Ihab Osman, Rashad Mostafa, Mohamed Farag

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In one paragraph

Trial report in BioMed research international, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It carries an expression of concern. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
29citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
8.4field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 70 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  4. The Correlation betweenInternational journal of fertility & sterility · 2026
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  8. Sperm abnormality: Differential expression of microRNAs.Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2025
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  15. Normospermic Patients Infected WithPathogens & immunity · 2023
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  19. The Roles of MicroRNAs in Male Infertility.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Taymour MostafaDepartment of Andrology & Sexology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0003-3627-0662
Laila A RashedDepartment of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Nashaat I NabilDepartment of Andrology and Sexology, Faculty of Medicine, Beni Suef University, Beni Suef, Egypt.
Ihab OsmanDepartment of Andrology & Sexology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Rashad MostafaDepartment of Andrology and Sexology, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt.
Mohamed FaragDepartment of Andrology and Sexology, Faculty of Medicine, Beni Suef University, Beni Suef, Egypt.
Cairo University · EGBeni-Suef University · EGSuez Canal University · EG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

ApoptosisOxidative StressAdultBiomarkersHumansInfertility, MaleMaleMicroRNAsSemenVaricoceleBiomarkersMicroRNAs

Identifiers

PMID28105423
PMCPMC5220416
OpenAlexW2565344351

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