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Article3 Biotech2018

Biofabricated silver nanoparticles incorporated polymethyl methacrylate as a dental adhesive material with antibacterial and antibiofilm activity against

Roshmi Thomas, S Snigdha, K B Bhavitha, Seethal Babu, Anjitha Ajith, E K Radhakrishnan

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Article in 3 Biotech, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing 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

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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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.

Roshmi Thomas *1School of Biosciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, PD Hills (P.O.), Kottayam, Kerala 686 560 India.
S Snigdha *2International and Inter University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, PD Hills (P.O.), Kottayam, Kerala 686 560 India.
K B Bhavitha2International and Inter University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, PD Hills (P.O.), Kottayam, Kerala 686 560 India.
Seethal Babu1School of Biosciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, PD Hills (P.O.), Kottayam, Kerala 686 560 India.
Anjitha Ajith1School of Biosciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, PD Hills (P.O.), Kottayam, Kerala 686 560 India.
E K Radhakrishnan1School of Biosciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, PD Hills (P.O.), Kottayam, Kerala 686 560 India.ORCID 0000-0003-2688-701X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this study, polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) thin films incorporated with biofabricated silver nanoparticles were used to evaluate the in vitro antimicrobial and antibiofilm activity against the cariogenic bacterium

Indexed as

AntibiofilmBiofabricated AgNPsDental adhesiveMicrobial AgNPsPMMAStreptococcus mutans

Identifiers

PMID30221117
PMCPMC6131137

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