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ArticleHeliyon2020

Phytochemical screening, anti-oxidant activity and α-amylase inhibition study using different extracts of loquat

Lebogang Mogole, Wesley Omwoyo, Fanyana Mtunzi

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Article in Heliyon, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 16% 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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 45 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Metabolite profiling and molecular dynamics-basedFrontiers in plant science · 2026
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  11. Heliyon · 2022
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  13. Phytochemical Analysis and Antifungal Potentiating Activity of Extracts from Loquat (Advances in pharmacological and pharmaceutical sciences · 2022
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  14. The Antifungal Activity of Loquat (Frontiers in nutrition · 2021
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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Lebogang MogoleDepartment of Chemistry, Vaal University of Technology, Private Bag X021, Vandebijlpark, 1900, South Africa.
Wesley OmwoyoDepartment of Chemistry, Vaal University of Technology, Private Bag X021, Vandebijlpark, 1900, South Africa.
Fanyana MtunziDepartment of Chemistry, Vaal University of Technology, Private Bag X021, Vandebijlpark, 1900, South Africa.
Vaal University of Technology · ZA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diabetes Mellitus is an endocrine disorder which causes insulin deficiency. Medicinal plants are documented to be efficacious in the management of the disease. The current research set to determine the phytochemicals present, anti-oxidant activity and investigate the potency of

Indexed as

DiabetesFood analysisFood scienceHyperglycaemiaMonosaccharidesPharmaceutical chemistryPhytochemicalsα-amylase

Identifiers

PMID32904229
PMCPMC7452403
OpenAlexW3080708955

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