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ReviewActa pharmaceutica Sinica. B2018

An updated overview on the development of new photosensitizers for anticancer photodynamic therapy.

Juan Zhang, Chengshi Jiang, João Paulo Figueiró Longo, Ricardo Bentes Azevedo, Hua Zhang, Luis Alexandre Muehlmann

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Review in Acta pharmaceutica Sinica. B, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 164 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
164citing papers in PubMed
36.8field-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

164 citing papers in PubMed, 561 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

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Juan ZhangSchool of Biological Science and Technology, University of Jinan, Jinan 250022, China.
Chengshi JiangSchool of Biological Science and Technology, University of Jinan, Jinan 250022, China.
João Paulo Figueiró LongoInstitute of Biological Sciences, University of Brasilia, Brasilia 70910-900, Brazil.
Ricardo Bentes AzevedoInstitute of Biological Sciences, University of Brasilia, Brasilia 70910-900, Brazil.
Hua ZhangSchool of Biological Science and Technology, University of Jinan, Jinan 250022, China.
Luis Alexandre MuehlmannInstitute of Biological Sciences, University of Brasilia, Brasilia 70910-900, Brazil.
Universidade de Brasília · BRUniversity of Jinan · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Photodynamic therapy (PDT), based on the photoactivation of photosensitizers (PSs), has become a well-studied therapy for cancer. Photofrin

Indexed as

Anti-cancerBODIPYOncologyPhotochemical reactionsPhotodynamic therapyPhotosensitizers

Identifiers

PMID29719775
PMCPMC5925394
OpenAlexW2758783177

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