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ReviewEuropean respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society2019

Sphingolipids in COPD.

Raja Chandra Chakinala, Akshay Khatri, Kriti Gupta, Kengo Koike, Oleg Epelbaum

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Review in European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
22citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 21% 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

22 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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  19. Neutral sphingomyelinase-2 and cardiometabolic diseases.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021
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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

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Raja Chandra ChakinalaDept of Medicine, Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, USA rajachandra@gmail.com.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8547-2917
Akshay KhatriDept of Medicine, Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5821-048X
Kriti GuptaDept of Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Kengo KoikePulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO, USA.
Oleg EpelbaumDivision of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, USA.
Westchester Medical Center · USMaimonides Medical Center · USNational Jewish Health · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sphingolipids are a distinct class of lipid molecules widely found in nature, principally as cell membrane constituents. After initial uncertainty about their function, sphingolipids have been increasingly recognised to be metabolically active entities involved in many biological processes, including the control of inflammation. Their role as mediators of inflammation may have significant implications for a range of lung diseases in which inflammation is a central element of pathogenesis. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a highly prevalent and morbid condition predominantly affecting cigarette smokers, is a prime example of a respiratory illness with an inflammatory component. Understandably, sphingolipids have received growing attention for their increasingly demonstrated role in the pathophysiology of COPD. The present review aims to be among the first to focus exclusively on the connection between sphingolipids and lung inflammation in COPD, providing the reader with a clinically oriented synopsis of this intriguing association.

Indexed as

HumansPulmonary Disease, Chronic ObstructiveSphingolipidsSphingolipids

Identifiers

PMID31694841
PMCPMC9488540
OpenAlexW2985363872

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