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ArticleFrontiers in pharmacology2017

(-)-Epigallocatechin-3-gallate Reduces Cigarette Smoke-Induced Airway Neutrophilic Inflammation and Mucin Hypersecretion in Rats.

Yingmin Liang, Kenneth W K Liu, Sze C Yeung, Xiang Li, Mary S M Ip, Judith C W Mak

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Article in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 18% 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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 33 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 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Yingmin LiangDepartment of Medicine, The University of Hong KongPokfulam, Hong Kong.
Kenneth W K LiuDepartment of Medicine, The University of Hong KongPokfulam, Hong Kong.
Sze C YeungDepartment of Medicine, The University of Hong KongPokfulam, Hong Kong.
Xiang LiDepartment of Medicine, The University of Hong KongPokfulam, Hong Kong.
Mary S M IpDepartment of Medicine, The University of Hong KongPokfulam, Hong Kong.
Judith C W MakDepartment of Medicine, The University of Hong KongPokfulam, Hong Kong.
City University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Research Institute · CNUniversity of Hong Kong · HK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

cigarette smokeepidermal growth factor receptor(-)-epigallocatechin-3-gallateinflammationmucus secretionneutrophil infiltration

Identifiers

PMID28932196
PMCPMC5592236
OpenAlexW2750953988

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Registered trials

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