Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32368640›Full record

ArticleHeliyon2020

Oral intake of

Jia-Ling Lyu, Ting-Ming Wang, Yen-Hao Chen, Shu-Ting Chang, Ming-Shiang Wu, Yung-Hao Lin, Yung-Hsiang Lin, Chen-Meng Kuan

Open access · goldAbstract read
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Heliyon, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
37citing papers in PubMed, 7 pooled it
4.4field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

37 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Pooled it
  3. Pooled it
  4. Pooled it
  5. Pooled it
  6. Pooled it
  7. Pooled it
  8. Laboratory-selected, probioticFrontiers in nutrition · 2026
    Trial
  9. mSystems · 2025
    Trial
  10. Trial
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. The gut-joint axis in osteoarthritis.Nature reviews. Rheumatology · 2026
    Review
  14. Review
  15. Review
  16. Review
  17. Review
  18. Review
  19. Review
  20. Review
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

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Jia-Ling LyuResearch & Design Center, TCI CO., Ltd., Taipei, 114, Taiwan.
Ting-Ming WangDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 100, Taiwan.
Yen-Hao ChenResearch & Design Center, TCI Gene Inc., Taipei, 114, Taiwan.
Shu-Ting ChangResearch & Design Center, TCI CO., Ltd., Taipei, 114, Taiwan.
Ming-Shiang WuDepartments of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 100, Taiwan.
Yung-Hao LinGlobal Business Center, TCI CO., Ltd., Taipei, 114, Taiwan.
Yung-Hsiang LinResearch & Design Center, TCI CO., Ltd., Taipei, 114, Taiwan.
Chen-Meng KuanResearch & Design Center, TCI CO., Ltd., Taipei, 114, Taiwan.
TCI (Taiwan) · TWNational Taiwan University Hospital · TWChina Medical University · TW

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This preliminary clinical study demonstrates the possibility of a new species of probiotic for improvement of the degeneration of knee osteoarthritis (KOA). TCI633 (

Indexed as

AgingFood microbiologyHyaluronic acidKnee osteoarthritisMicrobiologyMusculoskeletal systemProbioticsStreptococcus thermophilius

Identifiers

PMID32368640
PMCPMC7184258
OpenAlexW3018644833

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC-ND
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.