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ArticleSaudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society2018

Anticancer activity and concurrent analysis of ursolic acid, β-sitosterol and lupeol in three different

Perwez Alam, Hanan M Al-Yousef, Nasir A Siddiqui, Tawfeq A Alhowiriny, Saleh I Alqasoumi, Musarat Amina, Wafaa Hassan Badr Hassan, Sahar Abdelaziz, Rehab H Abdalla

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Article in Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  4. Mechanistic Insights into the Anticancer Potential ofPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  9. Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  12. Phytochemical and Ethnopharmacological Perspectives ofMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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  13. Ursolic Acid-Based Derivatives as Potential Anti-Cancer Agents: An Update.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Perwez AlamDepartment of Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Hanan M Al-YousefDepartment of Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Nasir A SiddiquiDepartment of Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Tawfeq A AlhowirinyDepartment of Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Saleh I AlqasoumiDepartment of Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Musarat AminaDepartment of Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Wafaa Hassan Badr HassanDepartment of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Zagazig University, 44519 Zagazig, Egypt.
Sahar AbdelazizDepartment of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Zagazig University, 44519 Zagazig, Egypt.
Rehab H AbdallaDepartment of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Zagazig University, 44519 Zagazig, Egypt.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The genus

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Hibiscus spp.HPTLCLupeolMTT assayUrsolic acidβ-sitosterol

Identifiers

PMID30416363
PMCPMC6218379

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