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ArticleScience translational medicine2020

Preclinical validation of a repurposed metal chelator as an early-intervention therapeutic for hemotoxic snakebite.

Laura-Oana Albulescu, Melissa S Hale, Stuart Ainsworth, Jaffer Alsolaiss, Edouard Crittenden, Juan J Calvete, Chloe Evans, Mark C Wilkinson, Robert A Harrison, Jeroen Kool and 1 more

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Article in Science translational medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
62citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
11.2field-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

62 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 104 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Laura-Oana AlbulescuCentre for Snakebite Research and Interventions, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, L3 5QA Liverpool, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6563-9217
Melissa S HaleCentre for Snakebite Research and Interventions, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, L3 5QA Liverpool, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9492-1326
Stuart AinsworthCentre for Snakebite Research and Interventions, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, L3 5QA Liverpool, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0199-6482
Jaffer AlsolaissCentre for Snakebite Research and Interventions, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, L3 5QA Liverpool, UK.
Edouard CrittendenCentre for Snakebite Research and Interventions, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, L3 5QA Liverpool, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1676-5457
Juan J CalveteLaboratorio de Venómica Estructural y Funcional, Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia, CSIC, Valencia 46010, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-5026-3122
Chloe EvansCentre for Snakebite Research and Interventions, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, L3 5QA Liverpool, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1716-1201
Mark C WilkinsonCentre for Snakebite Research and Interventions, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, L3 5QA Liverpool, UK.
Robert A HarrisonCentre for Snakebite Research and Interventions, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, L3 5QA Liverpool, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9842-5573
Jeroen KoolAmsterdam Institute for Molecules Medicines and Systems, Division of BioAnalytical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1083, 1081HV Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Nicholas R CasewellCentre for Snakebite Research and Interventions, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, L3 5QA Liverpool, UK. nicholas.casewell@lstmed.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-8035-4719
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine · GBInstituto de Biomedicina de Valencia · ESVrije Universiteit Amsterdam · NL

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_PC_15040Medical Research Council MC_PC_18055Medical Research Council MR/S00016X/1Wellcome Trust 200517Wellcome Trust 200517/Z/16/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Snakebite envenoming causes 138,000 deaths annually, and ~400,000 victims are left with permanent disabilities. Envenoming by saw-scaled vipers (Viperidae:

Indexed as

Snake BitesAfricaAnimalsAsiaChelating AgentsHumansMiceViper VenomsChelating AgentsViper Venoms

Identifiers

PMID32376771
PMCPMC7116364
OpenAlexW3022684107

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