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ReviewInternational journal of women's dermatology2015

The effect of probiotics on immune regulation, acne, and photoaging.

Mary-Margaret Kober, Whitney P Bowe

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In one paragraph

Review in International journal of women's dermatology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
69citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
6.3field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

69 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 181 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Oral Probiotics inMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025
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  4. Effects of Heat-KilledNutrients · 2026
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  7. Effects ofNutrients · 2021
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  10. Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Activities of Probiotic Strains.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  13. Lacticaseibacillus casei CB054 short-term supplementation effect on murine splenocyte cytokine transcription and the gut bacterial microbiota.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2025
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9 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mary-Margaret KoberSUNY Downstate Medical Center, Department of Dermatology, Brooklyn, NY.
Whitney P BoweIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · USSUNY Downstate Health Sciences University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Probiotics are live micro-organisms that provide a health benefit to the host. The role of probiotics in the management of disease, as well as immune modification, has recently experienced a renewed interest in society, as probiotics can be found in products ranging from yogurt to facial creams. In this article, we discuss the role of probiotics in the development of the immune system, the treatment of acne and rosacea, and protection against aging and photodamage.

Identifiers

PMID28491964
PMCPMC5418745
OpenAlexW1559550494

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.