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ArticleJournal of clinical biochemistry and nutrition2020

Cognitive function improvement with astaxanthin and tocotrienol intake: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.

Takahiro Sekikawa, Yuki Kizawa, Yanmei Li, Tsuyoshi Takara

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Article in Journal of clinical biochemistry and nutrition, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Takahiro SekikawaBGG Japan Co., Ltd., 8F Ginza Kobikicho Building, 8-18-1 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061, Japan.
Yuki KizawaBGG Japan Co., Ltd., 8F Ginza Kobikicho Building, 8-18-1 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061, Japan.
Yanmei LiBeijing Gingko-Group Biological Technology Co., Ltd., 1706, Tower A Building 1, Tianzuo Intemationa1 Center, No. 12 Zhongguancun South Avenue, Haidian District, Beijing, China.
Tsuyoshi TakaraMedical Corporation Seishinkai, Takara Clinic, 9F Taisei Building, 2-3-2 Higashi-gotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0022, Japan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We examined the effects of the mixed ingestion of astaxanthin derived from

Indexed as

antioxidant propertiesastaxanthincognitiveCognitraxlipid peroxidationtocotrienol

Identifiers

PMID33293773
PMCPMC7705074

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