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ReviewJournal of immunology research2018

Potential Effect of Statins on

Paola Del Carmen Guerra-De-Blas, Pedro Torres-González, Miriam Bobadilla-Del-Valle, Isabel Sada-Ovalle, Alfredo Ponce-De-León-Garduño, José Sifuentes-Osornio

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In one paragraph

Review in Journal of immunology research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 24% 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

14 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Delayed-Type Hypersensitivity toInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  5. Integrative transcriptome-based drug repurposing in tuberculosis.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  10. International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  14. Simvastatin Enhances the Immune Response AgainstFrontiers in microbiology · 2019
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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 1 country.

Paola Del Carmen Guerra-De-BlasLaboratory of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0003-3050-6865
Pedro Torres-GonzálezLaboratory of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico.
Miriam Bobadilla-Del-ValleLaboratory of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0003-1184-827X
Isabel Sada-OvalleLaboratory of Integrative Immunology, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias "Ismael Cosío Villegas", Mexico City, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0001-7769-7625
Alfredo Ponce-De-León-GarduñoLaboratory of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0003-2640-2916
José Sifuentes-OsornioLaboratory of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0001-9584-1360
Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán · MXInstituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias · MX

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tuberculosis is one of the 10 leading causes of death in the world. The current treatment is based on a combination of antimicrobials administered for six months. It is essential to find therapeutic agents with which the treatment time can be shortened and strengthen the host immune response against

Indexed as

Adjuvants, ImmunologicAntitubercular AgentsCholesterolHumansHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase InhibitorsImmune EvasionMycobacterium tuberculosisTuberculosisAdjuvants, ImmunologicAntitubercular AgentsCholesterolHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors

Identifiers

PMID30581876
PMCPMC6276473
OpenAlexW2900760133

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.