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ReviewAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences2020

Nutraceuticals as potential therapeutics for vesicant-induced pulmonary fibrosis.

Rita Businaro, Elisa Maggi, Federica Armeli, Alexa Murray, Debra L Laskin

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Review in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 47% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Rita BusinaroDepartment of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Sapienza University of Rome, Latina, Italy.
Elisa MaggiDepartment of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Sapienza University of Rome, Latina, Italy.
Federica ArmeliDepartment of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Sapienza University of Rome, Latina, Italy.
Alexa MurrayDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey.ORCID 0000-0001-6133-6710
Debra L LaskinDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey.
Sapienza University of Rome · ITRutgers, The State University of New Jersey · US

Funding

UMDNJ/Rutgers University CounterACT Research Center of ExcellenceU54AR055073 · NIAMS · UNIV OF MED/DENT NJ-R W JOHNSON MED SCH · PI LASKIN, JEFFREY D · 2006 to 2024
$71.4M
Translational Research Support CoreP30ES005022 · NIEHS · UNIV OF MED/DENT NJ-R W JOHNSON MED SCH · PI PANOS G. GEORGOPOULOS · 1988 to 2026
$47.4M
TRAINING IN EVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGYT32ES007148 · NIEHS · RUTGERS THE ST UNIV OF NJ NEW BRUNSWICK · PI Lauren M Aleksunes · 1987 to 2026
$11.4M
ACTIVATED MACROPHAGES AND OZONE TOXICITYR01ES004738 · NIEHS · RUTGERS THE ST UNIV OF NJ NEW BRUNSWICK · PI Debra L Laskin · 1989 to 2026
$9.0M
NIAMS NIH HHS U54 AR055073NIAMS NIH HHS U54AR055073NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES005022NIEHS NIH HHS P30ES005022NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES004738NIEHS NIH HHS R01ES004738NIEHS NIH HHS T32 ES007148
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Exposure to vesicants, including sulfur mustard and nitrogen mustard, causes damage to the epithelia of the respiratory tract and the lung. With time, this progresses to chronic disease, most notably, pulmonary fibrosis. The pathogenic process involves persistent inflammation and the release of cytotoxic oxidants, cytokines, chemokines, and profibrotic growth factors, which leads to the collapse of lung architecture, with fibrotic involution of the lung parenchyma. At present, there are no effective treatments available to combat this pathological process. Recently, much interest has focused on nutraceuticals, substances derived from plants, herbs, and fruits, that exert pleiotropic effects on inflammatory cells and parenchymal cells that may be useful in reducing fibrogenesis. Some promising results have been obtained with nutraceuticals in experimental animal models of inflammation-driven fibrosis. This review summarizes the current knowledge on the putative preventive/therapeutic efficacy of nutraceuticals in progressive pulmonary fibrosis, with a focus on their activity against inflammatory reactions and profibrotic cell differentiation.

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Dietary SupplementsPulmonary FibrosisAnimalsChemical Warfare AgentsDisease Models, AnimalHumansIrritantsMechlorethamineMustard GasChemical Warfare AgentsIrritantsMechlorethamineMustard Gasepithelial-mesenchymal transitioninflammationmustardsnutraceuticalsoxidative stresspulmonary fibrosis

Identifiers

PMID32725637
PMCPMC7936651
OpenAlexW3045858119

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