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ArticleInternational journal of fertility & sterility2021

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Mozhgan Raigani, Niknam Lakpour, Meysam Soleimani, Behrooz Johari, Mohammad Reza Sadeghi

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Article in International journal of fertility & sterility, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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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

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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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Association ofAmerican journal of men's health
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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.

Mozhgan RaiganiBiotechnology Research Center, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran.
Niknam LakpourReproductive Biotechnology Research Center, Avicenna Research Institute, ACECR, Tehran, Iran.
Meysam SoleimaniDepartment of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Pharmacy, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.
Behrooz JohariDepartment of Medical Biotechnology and Nanotechnology, School of Medicine, Zanjan University of Medical Science, Zanjan, Iran.
Mohammad Reza SadeghiMonoclonal Antibody Research Center, Avicenna Research Institute, ACECR, Tehran, Iran. Email:sadeghi@avicenna.ac.ir.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe relation between key enzymes in regulation of folate metabolism and male infertility is the subject of numerous studies. We aimed to determine whether 5, 10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase ( MATERIALS AND

methodsIn this randomized clinical trail study, semen and peripheral blood samples were collected from 254 men with oligoasthenoteratozoospermia (OAT) and 77 normozoospermic men who attended Avicenna infertility clinic. Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis was carried out in genomic DNA by polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) method for

resultsIn

conclusionThe

Indexed as

FolateMale InfertilityMTHFRMTRRVitamin B12

Identifiers

PMID33497043
PMCPMC7838758

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