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ReviewAntioxidants (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Radioprotective Agents and Enhancers Factors. Preventive and Therapeutic Strategies for Oxidative Induced Radiotherapy Damages in Hematological Malignancies.

Andrea Gaetano Allegra, Federica Mannino, Vanessa Innao, Caterina Musolino, Alessandro Allegra

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In one paragraph

Review in Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 19% 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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 21 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

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andrea Gaetano AllegraRadiation Oncology Unit, Department of Biomedical, Experimental, and Clinical Sciences "Mario Serio", Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, University of Florence, 50100 Florence, Italy.
Federica ManninoDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, c/o AOU Policlinico G. Martino, Via C. Valeria Gazzi, 98125 Messina, Italy.
Vanessa InnaoDepartment of Human Pathology in Adulthood and Childhood "Gaetano Barresi", Division of Haematology, University of Messina, 98125 Messina, Italy.
Caterina MusolinoDepartment of Human Pathology in Adulthood and Childhood "Gaetano Barresi", Division of Haematology, University of Messina, 98125 Messina, Italy.
Alessandro AllegraDepartment of Human Pathology in Adulthood and Childhood "Gaetano Barresi", Division of Haematology, University of Messina, 98125 Messina, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6156-8239
University of Messina · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Radiation therapy plays a critical role in the management of a wide range of hematologic malignancies. It is well known that the post-irradiation damages both in the bone marrow and in other organs are the main causes of post-irradiation morbidity and mortality. Tumor control without producing extensive damage to the surrounding normal cells, through the use of radioprotectors, is of special clinical relevance in radiotherapy. An increasing amount of data is helping to clarify the role of oxidative stress in toxicity and therapy response. Radioprotective agents are substances that moderate the oxidative effects of radiation on healthy normal tissues while preserving the sensitivity to radiation damage in tumor cells. As well as the substances capable of carrying out a protective action against the oxidative damage caused by radiotherapy, other substances have been identified as possible enhancers of the radiotherapy and cytotoxic activity via an oxidative effect. The purpose of this review was to examine the data in the literature on the possible use of old and new substances to increase the efficacy of radiation treatment in hematological diseases and to reduce the harmful effects of the treatment.

Indexed as

apoptosishematological malignanciesleukemialymphomamitochondriamultiple myelomaoxidative stressradiotherapy

Identifiers

PMID33198328
PMCPMC7696711
OpenAlexW3104520954

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