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ReviewAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Plant-Derivatives Small Molecules with Antibacterial Activity.

Sana Alibi, Dámaso Crespo, Jesús Navas

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Review in Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
48citing papers in PubMed
13.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

48 citing papers in PubMed, 117 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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Sana AlibiAnalysis and Process Applied to the Environment UR17ES32, Higher Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology, Mahdia 5121, Tunisia.
Dámaso CrespoBIOMEDAGE Group, Faculty of Medicine, Cantabria University, 39011 Santander, Spain.
Jesús NavasBIOMEDAGE Group, Faculty of Medicine, Cantabria University, 39011 Santander, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-5735-4668
Universidad de Cantabria · ESNational Institute of Applied Science and Technology · TN

Funding

Instituto de Investigación Marqués de Valdecilla INNVAL 20/22
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The vegetal world constitutes the main factory of chemical products, in particular secondary metabolites like phenols, phenolic acids, terpenoids, and alkaloids. Many of these compounds are small molecules with antibacterial activity, although very few are actually in the market as antibiotics for clinical practice or as food preservers. The path from the detection of antibacterial activity in a plant extract to the practical application of the active(s) compound(s) is long, and goes through their identification, purification, in vitro and in vivo analysis of their biological and pharmacological properties, and validation in clinical trials. This review presents an update of the main contributions published on the subject, focusing on the compounds that showed activity against multidrug-resistant relevant bacterial human pathogens, paying attention to their mechanisms of action and synergism with classical antibiotics.

Indexed as

antibacterial activitymulti-drug resistanceplant-derivatessmall molecules

Identifiers

PMID33668943
PMCPMC7996626
OpenAlexW3135539455

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