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ReviewFrontiers in pharmacology2020

A Review of the Pharmacological Action of Astragalus Polysaccharide.

Yijun Zheng, Weiyu Ren, Lina Zhang, Yuemei Zhang, Dongling Liu, Yongqi Liu

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Review in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 196 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
196citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
50.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

196 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 417 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Yijun ZhengProvincial-level Key Laboratory for Molecular Medicine of Major Diseases and The Prevention and Treatment with Traditional Chinese Medicine Research in Gansu Colleges and University, Gansu University of Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, China.
Weiyu RenPharmacy College, Gansu University of Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, China.
Lina ZhangSchool of Education, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom.
Yuemei ZhangOphthalmology Department, First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
Dongling LiuProvincial-level Key Laboratory for Molecular Medicine of Major Diseases and The Prevention and Treatment with Traditional Chinese Medicine Research in Gansu Colleges and University, Gansu University of Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, China.
Yongqi LiuProvincial-level Key Laboratory for Molecular Medicine of Major Diseases and The Prevention and Treatment with Traditional Chinese Medicine Research in Gansu Colleges and University, Gansu University of Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, China.
Gansu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CNLanzhou University · CNUniversity of Leeds · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

anti-aginganti-tumorAstragalus polysaccharidechemical compositionimmune regulationpharmacological actionpreparationregulation of blood glucose

Identifiers

PMID32265719
PMCPMC7105737
OpenAlexW3013376317

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