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ReviewToxins2019

Ricin: An Ancient Story for a Timeless Plant Toxin.

Letizia Polito, Massimo Bortolotti, Maria Giulia Battelli, Giulia Calafato, Andrea Bolognesi

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Review in Toxins, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
67citing 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

67 citing papers in PubMed.

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7 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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.

Letizia PolitoDepartment of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine-DIMES, General Pathology Section, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Via S. Giacomo 14, 40126 Bologna, Italy. letizia.polito@unibo.it.ORCID 0000-0001-8051-4981
Massimo BortolottiDepartment of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine-DIMES, General Pathology Section, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Via S. Giacomo 14, 40126 Bologna, Italy. massimo.bortolotti2@unibo.it.ORCID 0000-0001-9030-2237
Maria Giulia BattelliDepartment of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine-DIMES, General Pathology Section, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Via S. Giacomo 14, 40126 Bologna, Italy. mariagiulia.battelli@unibo.it.ORCID 0000-0001-6048-0454
Giulia CalafatoDepartment of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine-DIMES, General Pathology Section, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Via S. Giacomo 14, 40126 Bologna, Italy. giulia.calafato2@unibo.it.
Andrea BolognesiDepartment of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine-DIMES, General Pathology Section, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Via S. Giacomo 14, 40126 Bologna, Italy. andrea.bolognesi@unibo.it.ORCID 0000-0001-7497-4586

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The castor plant (

Indexed as

AnimalsBioterrorismHumansImmunotoxinsRicinToxins, BiologicalImmunotoxinsRicinToxins, Biologicalbioterrorismcancer therapycastor beanfolk medicineimmunotoxinsplant toxinsribosome-inactivating proteinsricinrRNA N-glycosylase activitytraditional medicine

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PMID31174319
PMCPMC6628454

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