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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2018

Role of Vitamin A in the Immune System.

Zhiyi Huang, Yu Liu, Guangying Qi, David Brand, Song Guo Zheng

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 243 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
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243citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
19.8field-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

243 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 576 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

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Zhiyi HuangDepartment of Pathology and Physiopathology, Guilin Medical University, Guilin 541004, Guangxi, China. hzy19881021@163.com.
Yu LiuDepartment of Pathology and Physiopathology, Guilin Medical University, Guilin 541004, Guangxi, China. liuyu@webmail.hzau.edu.cn.
Guangying QiDepartment of Pathology and Physiopathology, Guilin Medical University, Guilin 541004, Guangxi, China. qgy@glmc.edu.cn.
David BrandResearch Service, VA Medical Center, Memphis, TN 38104, USA. dbrand@uthsc.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-9260-7963
Song Guo ZhengDepartment of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center at Penn State University, Hershey, PA 17033, USA. szheng1@pennstatehealth.psu.edu.
Guilin Medical University · CNMemphis VA Medical Center · USPenn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center · US

Funding

Therapeutic immunoregulation mediated by TGF-??-induced iTregs in autoimmune arthR01AR059103 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI JARJOUR, WAEL N · 2010 to 2020
$3.9M
NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR059103
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vitamin A (VitA) is a micronutrient that is crucial for maintaining vision, promoting growth and development, and protecting epithelium and mucus integrity in the body. VitA is known as an anti-inflammation vitamin because of its critical role in enhancing immune function. VitA is involved in the development of the immune system and plays regulatory roles in cellular immune responses and humoral immune processes. VitA has demonstrated a therapeutic effect in the treatment of various infectious diseases. To better understand the relationship between nutrition and the immune system, the authors review recent literature about VitA in immunity research and briefly introduce the clinical application of VitA in the treatment of several infectious diseases.

Indexed as

immunologyinfectious diseasevitamin A

Identifiers

PMID30200565
PMCPMC6162863
OpenAlexW2891128176

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