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ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2020

Simvastatin Improves Cardiac Function through Notch 1 Activation in BALB/c Mice with Chronic Chagas Cardiomyopathy.

Daniela Guzmán-Rivera, Ana Liempi, Fabiola González-Herrera, Sebastián Fuentes-Retamal, Ileana Carrillo, Patricio Abarca, Christian Castillo, Ulrike Kemmerling, Barbara Pesce, Juan Diego Maya

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Article in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 15% 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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 18 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

10 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Daniela Guzmán-RiveraClinical and Molecular Pharmacology Program, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Ana LiempiAnatomy and Developmental Biology Program, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Fabiola González-HerreraClinical and Molecular Pharmacology Program, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Sebastián Fuentes-RetamalClinical and Molecular Pharmacology Program, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Ileana CarrilloClinical and Molecular Pharmacology Program, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Patricio AbarcaClinical and Molecular Pharmacology Program, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Christian CastilloAnatomy and Developmental Biology Program, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Ulrike KemmerlingAnatomy and Developmental Biology Program, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Barbara PesceClinical and Molecular Pharmacology Program, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Juan Diego MayaClinical and Molecular Pharmacology Program, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile jmaya@med.uchile.cl.ORCID 0000-0003-3934-6319
University of Chile · CL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chagas disease, caused by the protozoan

Indexed as

Chagas CardiomyopathyChagas DiseaseTrypanosoma cruziAnimalsEndothelial CellsMiceMice, Inbred BALB CSimvastatinSimvastatinChagas cardiomyopathyNotch 1simvastatin

Identifiers

PMID32393497
PMCPMC7526820
OpenAlexW3025878536

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