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ArticleToxins2020

Effect of Zinc on

Jose L Perez, Tinchun Chu

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Article in Toxins, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 25% 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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Investigating zinc toxicity responses in marineMicrobiology (Reading, England) · 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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jose L PerezDepartment of Biological Sciences, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ 07079, USA.
Tinchun ChuDepartment of Biological Sciences, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ 07079, USA.
Seton Hall University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cyanobacteria harmful algal blooms (CHABs) are primarily caused by man-made eutrophication and increasing climate-change conditions. The presence of heavy metal runoff in affected water systems may result in CHABs alteration to their ecological interactions. Certain CHABs produce by-products, such as microcystin (MC) cyanotoxins, that have detrimentally affected humans through contact via recreation activities within implicated water bodies, directly drinking contaminated water, ingesting biomagnified cyanotoxins in seafood, and/or contact through miscellaneous water treatment. Metallothionein (MT) is a small, metal-sequestration cysteine rich protein often upregulated within the stress response mechanism. This study focused on zinc metal resistance and stress response in a toxigenic cyanobacterium,

Indexed as

Bacterial ProteinsChloridesGene Expression Regulation, BacterialMarine ToxinsMetallothioneinMicrocystinsMicrocystisZinc CompoundsBacterial ProteinsChloridescyanoginosin LRMarine ToxinsMetallothioneinMicrocystinszinc chlorideZinc CompoundscyanobacteriacyanotoxinsmetalmicrocystinMicrocystis aeruginosazinc

Identifiers

PMID32019107
PMCPMC7076789
OpenAlexW3005027185

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Registered trials

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