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ArticleFrontiers in pharmacology2020

Boran Zhu, Yi Zhai, Mengjiao Ji, Yanan Wei, Jiafei Wu, Wenda Xue, Wei Wei Tao, Haoxin Wu

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Article in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
26citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 13% 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

26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 47 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

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Boran ZhuSchool of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China.
Yi ZhaiSchool of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China.
Mengjiao JiSchool of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China.
Yanan WeiSchool of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China.
Jiafei WuSchool of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China.
Wenda XueSchool of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China.
Wei Wei TaoSchool of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China.
Haoxin WuSchool of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China.
Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

background

methodsWe established an AS model in male apolipoprotein E-deficient (ApoE

resultsAfter 8 weeks of HFD feeding, an inflammatory cytokine, and AS development expression were significantly decreased in mice treated with AOB; the same parameters in the mice treated with the antibiotics cocktail did not change. In the gut microbiota study, mice treated with AOB had a markedly different gut microbiota than the HFD-fed mice. Additionally, AOB also decreased serum TMAO and hepatic FMO3 expression.

conclusionThe antiatherosclerotic effects of AOB were found associated with changes in the content of gut microbiota and a reduction in TMAO, a gut microbiota metabolite, suggesting that AOB has potential therapeutic value in the treatment of AS.

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Alisma orientalis beverageatherosclerosisgut microbiotaherb formulatraditional Chinese medicinetrimethylamine N-oxide

Identifiers

PMID33101028
PMCPMC7545905
OpenAlexW3088507098

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