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ReviewBiomedicines2020

Potential Use of Anti-Inflammatory Synthetic Heparan Sulfate to Attenuate Liver Damage.

Katelyn Arnold, Yi-En Liao, Jian Liu

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In one paragraph

Review in Biomedicines, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 34% 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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
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  3. UtilizingAmerican journal of physiology. Cell physiology · 2025
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  6. Using heparan sulfate octadecasaccharide (18-mer) as a multi-target agent to protect against sepsis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  8. Emerging chemical and biochemical tools for studying 3-American journal of physiology. Cell physiology · 2022
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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 1 country.

Katelyn ArnoldDivision of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8552-1400
Yi-En LiaoDivision of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Jian LiuDivision of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

Synthesis and Pharmacological Evaluation of Homogenous Ultra-Low Molecular Weight HeparinsR01HL144970 · NHLBI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI LIU, JIAN · 2019 to 2021
$946k
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL144970NIH HHS HL094463NIH HHS HL144970
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heparan sulfate is a highly sulfated polysaccharide abundant on the surface of hepatocytes and surrounding extracellular matrix. Emerging evidence demonstrates that heparan sulfate plays an important role in neutralizing the activities of proinflammatory damage associate molecular patterns (DAMPs) that are released from hepatocytes under pathological conditions. Unlike proteins and nucleic acids, isolation of homogenous heparan sulfate polysaccharides from biological sources is not possible, adding difficulty to study the functional role of heparan sulfate. Recent advancement in the development of a chemoenzymatic approach allows production of a large number of structurally defined oligosaccharides. These oligosaccharides are used to probe the physiological functions of heparan sulfate in liver damage under different pathological conditions. The findings provide a potential new therapeutic agent to treat liver diseases that are associated with excessive inflammation.

Indexed as

chemoenzymatic synthesisDAMPSheparan sulfateinflammationoligosaccharides

Identifiers

PMID33207634
PMCPMC7697061
OpenAlexW3106381426

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