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ArticleMicrobial ecology in health and disease2017

Effect of probiotic supplementation on total lactobacilli, bifidobacteria and short chain fatty acids in 2-5-year-old children.

R Hemalatha, A C Ouwehand, M T Saarinen, U V Prasad, K Swetha, V Bhaskar

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Article in Microbial ecology in health and disease, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
20citing papers in PubMed
5.6field-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

20 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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  14. Probiotics for Parkinson's Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2019
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  15. Mechanisms of Action of Probiotics.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2019
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  16. Microbial treatment: the potential application for Parkinson's disease.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2019
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  17. Effects of Queso Blanco Cheese ContainingKorean journal for food science of animal resources · 2018
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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 2 institutions in 4 countries.

R HemalathaMicrobiology and Immunology Division, National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, India.
A C OuwehandActive Nutrition, DuPont Nutrition and Health, Kantvik, Finland.
M T SaarinenActive Nutrition, DuPont Nutrition and Health, Kantvik, Finland.
U V PrasadMicrobiology and Immunology Division, National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, India.
K SwethaMicrobiology and Immunology Division, National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, India.
V BhaskarMicrobiology and Immunology Division, National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, India.
National Institute of Nutrition · INNutrition 21 (United States) · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

BifidobacteriumdiarrhoeaLactobacillusmicrobial metabolites

Identifiers

PMID28572751
PMCPMC5443088
OpenAlexW2613677009

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