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ArticleCell host & microbe2018

Bacteroides fragilis Toxin Coordinates a Pro-carcinogenic Inflammatory Cascade via Targeting of Colonic Epithelial Cells.

Liam Chung, Erik Thiele Orberg, Abby L Geis, June L Chan, Kai Fu, Christina E DeStefano Shields, Christine M Dejea, Payam Fathi, Jie Chen, Benjamin B Finard and 15 more

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Article in Cell host & microbe, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 93 papers.

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93citing papers in PubMed
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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

93 citing papers in PubMed.

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  16. Gut Microbiome Diagnostic Biomarkers for Colorectal Cancer.The Turkish journal of gastroenterology : the official journal of Turkish Society of Gastroenterology · 2025
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33 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

25 authors.

Liam Chung
Erik Thiele Orberg
Abby L Geis
June L Chan
Kai Fu
Christina E DeStefano Shields
Christine M Dejea
Payam Fathi
Jie Chen
Benjamin B Finard
Ada J Tam
Florencia McAllister
Hongni Fan
Xinqun Wu
Sudipto Ganguly
Andriana Lebid
Paul Metz
Sara W Van Meerbeke
David L Huso
Elizabeth C Wick
Drew M Pardoll
Fengyi Wan
Shaoguang Wu
Cynthia L Sears
Franck Housseau

Funding

Translational Research Enhancement CoreP30DK089502 · NIDDK · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI ZACHOS, NICHOLAS CONSTANTINE · 2011 to 2020
$12.0M
NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK089502
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID29544099
PMCPMC6469393

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