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ArticleGut2021

Rescue of male fertility following faecal microbiota transplantation from alginate oligosaccharide-dosed mice.

Cong Zhang, Bohui Xiong, Liang Chen, Wei Ge, Shen Yin, Yanni Feng, Zhongyi Sun, Qingyuan Sun, Yong Zhao, Wei Shen and 1 more

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Article in Gut, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

40 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Cong Zhang *State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Haidian District, China.
Bohui Xiong *State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Haidian District, China.
Liang Chen *State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Haidian District, China.
Wei GeCollege of Life Sciences, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China.
Shen YinCollege of Life Sciences, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China.
Yanni FengCollege of Veterinary Medicine, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, PR China.
Zhongyi SunCenter for Reproductive Medicine, Urology Department, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China.
Qingyuan SunState Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Yong ZhaoState Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Haidian District, China yzhao818@hotmail.com shenwei427@163.com zhanghongfu@caas.cn.ORCID 0000-0003-3423-2718
Wei ShenCollege of Life Sciences, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China yzhao818@hotmail.com shenwei427@163.com zhanghongfu@caas.cn.
Hongfu ZhangState Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Haidian District, China yzhao818@hotmail.com shenwei427@163.com zhanghongfu@caas.cn.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Fecal Microbiota TransplantationGastrointestinal MicrobiomeAlginatesAnimalsFertilityMaleMiceOligosaccharidesAlginatesOligosaccharidesdrug developmentgastrointestinal functionintestinal microbiology

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PMID33443023
PMCPMC8515102

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