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ReviewJournal of immunology research2017

Traditional Chinese Medicine Protects against Cytokine Production as the Potential Immunosuppressive Agents in Atherosclerosis.

Yan Ren, Wei Qiao, Dongliang Fu, Zhiwei Han, Wei Liu, Weijie Ye, Zunjing Liu

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In one paragraph

Review in Journal of immunology research, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 22% 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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 27 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

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yan RenDepartment of Cardiology, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing 100029, China.ORCID 0000-0003-3708-268X
Wei QiaoDepartment of Cardiology, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing 100029, China.
Dongliang FuDepartment of Cardiology, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing 100029, China.
Zhiwei HanDepartment of Cardiology, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing 100029, China.
Wei LiuDepartment of Neurology, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing 100029, China.
Weijie YeDepartment of Neurology, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing 100029, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4285-9230
Zunjing LiuDepartment of Neurology, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing 100029, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7962-8217
China-Japan Friendship Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease caused by dyslipidemia and mediated by both innate and adaptive immune responses. Inflammation is a critical factor at all stages of atherosclerosis progression. Proinflammatory cytokines accelerate atherosclerosis progression, while anti-inflammatory cytokines ameliorate the disease. Accordingly, strategies to inhibit immune activation and impede immune responses towards anti-inflammatory activity are an alternative therapeutic strategy to conventional chemotherapy on cardiocerebrovascular outcomes. Since a number of Chinese medicinal plants have been used traditionally to prevent and treat atherosclerosis, it is reasonable to assume that the plants used for such disease may suppress the immune responses and the resultant inflammation. This review focuses on plants that have immunomodulatory effects on the production of inflammatory cytokine burst and are used in Chinese traditional medicine for the prevention and therapy of atherosclerosis.

Indexed as

Medicine, Chinese TraditionalAnimalsAtherosclerosisCytokinesDyslipidemiasHumansImmunomodulationImmunosuppressive AgentsInflammationProtective AgentsCytokinesImmunosuppressive AgentsProtective Agents

Identifiers

PMID29038791
PMCPMC5606136
OpenAlexW2753294100

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