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ArticleDose-response : a publication of International Hormesis Society

The Neuroprotective Effects of Thymoquinone: A Review.

Tahereh Farkhondeh, Saeed Samarghandian, Ali Mohammad Pourbagher Shahri, Fariborz Samini

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Article in Dose-response : a publication of International Hormesis Society. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers.

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57citing papers in PubMed
18.2field-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

57 citing papers in PubMed, 138 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 3 institutions in 1 country.

Tahereh FarkhondehCardiovascular Diseases Research Center, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran.
Saeed SamarghandianDepartment of Basic Medical Sciences, Neyshabur University of Medical Sciences, Neyshabur, Iran.
Ali Mohammad Pourbagher ShahriFaculty of Medicine, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran.ORCID 0000-0003-4462-9890
Fariborz SaminiDepartment of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mahhad, Iran.
Birjand University of Medical Sciences · IRMashhad University of Medical Sciences · IRUniversity of Neyshabur · IR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thymoquinone (TQ), one of the main components active of

Indexed as

anti-inflammationantioxidantapoptosisneurodegenerative diseasesthymoquinone

Identifiers

PMID29662431
PMCPMC5898665
OpenAlexW2901377967

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