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ArticleMarine drugs2017

Antitumor Effects of Laminaria Extract Fucoxanthin on Lung Cancer.

ChengHan Mei, ShunChang Zhou, Lin Zhu, JiaXiong Ming, FanDian Zeng, Rong Xu

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Article in Marine drugs, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
35citing papers in PubMed
14.2field-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

35 citing papers in PubMed, 106 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

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

ChengHan MeiDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Basic Medicine, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, China. ckklmch@sina.cn.
ShunChang ZhouDepartment of Laboratory Animal, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, China. schzhou@sohu.com.
Lin ZhuDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Basic Medicine, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, China. zhul_1024@sina.cn.
JiaXiong MingDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Basic Medicine, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, China. jxminghust@163.com.
FanDian ZengDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Basic Medicine, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, China. fdzeng@163.com.
Rong XuDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Basic Medicine, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, China. rongxu@hust.edu.cn.
Huazhong University of Science and Technology · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide and non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the most common type. Marine plants provide rich resources for anticancer drug discovery. Fucoxanthin (FX), a

Indexed as

A549 CellsAnimalsAntineoplastic Agents, PhytogenicApoptosisApoptosis Regulatory ProteinsCarcinoma, Non-Small-Cell LungCell CycleCell DivisionFemaleFlow CytometryHumansImmunohistochemistryLaminariaLung NeoplasmsMaleMiceAntineoplastic Agents, PhytogenicApoptosis Regulatory ProteinsfucoxanthinPlant ExtractsTumor Suppressor ProteinsXanthophyllsapoptosiscell cycle arrestfucoxanthinnon-small-cell lung cancer

Identifiers

PMID28212270
PMCPMC5334619
OpenAlexW2587941449

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