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Trial reportNeuroImage2017

Mapping the pharmacological modulation of brain oxygen metabolism: The effects of caffeine on absolute CMRO

Alberto Merola, Michael A Germuska, Esther Ah Warnert, Lewys Richmond, Daniel Helme, Sharmila Khot, Kevin Murphy, Peter J Rogers, Judith E Hall, Richard G Wise

Open access · hybridAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in NeuroImage, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
23citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.9field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Article
  5. Quantification of regional CMROZeitschrift fur medizinische Physik · 2025
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  6. Reduced brain oxygen metabolism in patients with multiple sclerosis: Evidence from dual-calibrated functional MRI.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2023
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  10. A flow-diffusion model of oxygen transport for quantitative mapping of cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen (CMROJournal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2022
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  11. Acute Effects of Caffeine Intake on Psychological Responses and High-Intensity Exercise Performance.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  12. Separating vascular and neuronal effects of age on fMRI BOLD signals.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021
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  18. Vascular effects of caffeine found in BOLD fMRI.Journal of neuroscience research · 2019
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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

10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alberto MerolaCardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.
Michael A GermuskaCardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.
Esther Ah WarnertCardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.
Lewys RichmondDepartment of Anaesthetics and Intensive Care Medicine, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, UK.
Daniel HelmeDepartment of Anaesthetics and Intensive Care Medicine, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, UK.
Sharmila KhotCardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK; Department of Anaesthetics and Intensive Care Medicine, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, UK.
Kevin MurphyCardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.
Peter J RogersSchool of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Judith E HallDepartment of Anaesthetics and Intensive Care Medicine, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, UK.
Richard G WiseCardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK. Electronic address: wiserg@cardiff.ac.uk.
Cardiff University · GBUniversity of Bristol · GB

Funding

Wellcome Trust 090199Wellcome Trust 200804/Z/16/ZWellcome Trust WT090199
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study aims to map the acute effects of caffeine ingestion on grey matter oxygen metabolism and haemodynamics with a novel MRI method. Sixteen healthy caffeine consumers (8 males, age=24.7±5.1) were recruited to this randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Each participant was scanned on two days before and after the delivery of an oral caffeine (250mg) or placebo capsule. Our measurements were obtained with a newly proposed estimation approach applied to data from a dual calibration fMRI experiment that uses hypercapnia and hyperoxia to modulate brain blood flow and oxygenation. Estimates were based on a forward model that describes analytically the contributions of cerebral blood flow (CBF) and of the measured end-tidal partial pressures of CO

Indexed as

Gray MatterAdultCaffeineCentral Nervous System StimulantsCerebrovascular CirculationDouble-Blind MethodFemaleFunctional NeuroimagingHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleOxygen ConsumptionYoung AdultCaffeineCentral Nervous System StimulantsCaffeineCalibrated fMRICerebral metabolic rate of oxygen consumptionGas manipulationsRandomised placebo-controlled drug study

Identifiers

PMID28323164
PMCPMC7613100
OpenAlexW2595731341

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Registered trials

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