Clinical and Basic Studies on Therapeutic Efficacy of Herbal Medicines against Mycobacterial Infections.

Haruaki Tomioka, Yutaka Tatano, Toshiaki Shimizu, Chiaki Sano

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Review in Medicines (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in

3citing papers in PubMed

1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 23% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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Potential therapeutic effect of ninjinyoeito for the treatment of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial infections: A case report.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 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

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Haruaki TomiokaDepartment of Basic Medical Science for Nursing, Department of Primary Education, Yasuda Women's University, Hiroshima 731-0153, Japan. tomioka@yasuda-u.ac.jp.

Yutaka TatanoDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, International University of Health and Welfare, Otawara 324-8501, Japan. tatanoy@iuhw.ac.jp.ORCID 0000-0003-2829-105X

Toshiaki ShimizuDepartment of Nutritional Sciences, Yasuda Women's University, Hiroshima 731-0153, Japan. shimizu-t@yasuda-u.ac.jp.

Chiaki SanoDepartment of Community Medicine Management, Shimane University School of Medicine, Izumo 693-8501, Japan. sanochi@med.shimane-u.ac.jp.

Shimane University · JPInternational University of Health and Welfare · JPYasuda Women's University · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The high incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in developing countries, the resurgence of TB in industrialized countries, and the worldwide increase in the prevalence of

Indexed as

herbal medicineshost-directed therapeuticsimmunoadjunctive agentsmedicinal plantsmycobacterial infections

Identifiers

PMID31248144

DOI10.3390/medicines6020067

PMCPMC6630501

OpenAlexW2951059779

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