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ReviewFrontiers in molecular neuroscience2018

Conflicting Effects of Methylglyoxal and Potential Significance of miRNAs for Seizure Treatment.

Hua Tao, Xu Zhou, Bin Zhao, Keshen Li

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Review in Frontiers in molecular neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 49% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 7 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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hua TaoDepartment of Neurology, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, China.
Xu ZhouClinical Research Center, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, China.
Bin ZhaoGuangdong Key Laboratory of Age-Related Cardiac and Cerebral Diseases, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, China.
Keshen LiInstitute of Neurology, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, China.
Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical College Hospital · CNGuangdong Medical College · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

According to an update from the World Health Organization, approximately 50 million people worldwide suffer from epilepsy, and nearly one-third of these individuals are resistant to the currently available antiepileptic drugs, which has resulted in an insistent pursuit of novel strategies for seizure treatment. Recently, methylglyoxal (MG) was demonstrated to serve as a partial agonist of the gamma-aminobutyric acid type A (GABA

Indexed as

epilepsyglyoxalase ImethylglyoxalmiRNAsreceptor of advanced glycation end products

Identifiers

PMID29556176
PMCPMC5845011
OpenAlexW2792135576

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