Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29191830›Full record

ReviewThe Journal of biological chemistry2018

Lipoic acid metabolism and mitochondrial redox regulation.

Ashley Solmonson, Ralph J DeBerardinis

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Review in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 265 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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265citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
10.0field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

265 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 474 citations in OpenAlex.

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205 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.

Ashley SolmonsonFrom the Children's Medical Center Research Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390.
Ralph J DeBerardinisFrom the Children's Medical Center Research Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390 ralph.deberardinis@utsouthwestern.edu.
Children's Medical Center · USThe University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · US

Funding

Metabolic Regulators of Tumor Growth and ProgressionR35CA220449 · NCI · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI RALPH J DEBERARDINIS · 2017 to 2026
$9.4M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNCI NIH HHS R35 CA220449
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lipoic acid is an essential cofactor for mitochondrial metabolism and is synthesized

Indexed as

Energy MetabolismLipid MetabolismAnimalsHumansMitochondriaOxidation-ReductionThioctic AcidThioctic Acidcell metabolismlipoic acidmitochondriaoxidation-reduction (redox)redox regulationtricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA cycle) (Krebs cycle)

Identifiers

PMID29191830
PMCPMC5961061
OpenAlexW2772709248

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