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ReviewAntioxidants (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Flavonoids-Macromolecules Interactions in Human Diseases with Focus on Alzheimer, Atherosclerosis and Cancer.

Dana Atrahimovich, Dorit Avni, Soliman Khatib

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In one paragraph

Review in Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
27citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 51 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Evidence of Flavonoids on Disease Prevention.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  20. "Malancha" [Biomolecules · 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.

Dana AtrahimovichLab of Natural Compounds and Analytical Chemistry, MIGAL-Galilee Research Institute, Kiryat Shmona 11016, Israel.
Dorit AvniLab of Sphingolipids, Bioactive Metabolites and Immune Modulation, MIGAL-Galilee Research Institute, Kiryat Shmona 11016, Israel.
Soliman KhatibLab of Natural Compounds and Analytical Chemistry, MIGAL-Galilee Research Institute, Kiryat Shmona 11016, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-6762-2408
Migal - Galilee Technology Center · IL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Flavonoids, a class of polyphenols, consumed daily in our diet, are associated with a reduced risk for oxidative stress (OS)-related chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative diseases, cancer, and inflammation. The involvement of flavonoids with OS-related chronic diseases have been traditionally attributed to their antioxidant activity. However, evidence from recent studies indicate that flavonoids' beneficial impact may be assigned to their interaction with cellular macromolecules, rather than exerting a direct antioxidant effect. This review provides an overview of the recent evolving research on interactions between the flavonoids and lipoproteins, proteins, chromatin, DNA, and cell-signaling molecules that are involved in the OS-related chronic diseases; it focuses on the mechanisms by which flavonoids attenuate the development of the aforementioned chronic diseases via direct and indirect effects on gene expression and cellular functions. The current review summarizes data from the literature and from our recent research and then compares specific flavonoids' interactions with their targets, focusing on flavonoid structure-activity relationships. In addition, the various methods of evaluating flavonoid-protein and flavonoid-DNA interactions are presented. Our aim is to shed light on flavonoids action in the body, beyond their well-established, direct antioxidant activity, and to provide insights into the mechanisms by which these small molecules, consumed daily, influence cellular functions.

Indexed as

Alzheimerantioxidantatherosclerosiscancerflavonoidinflammationoxidative stress

Identifiers

PMID33802084
PMCPMC7999194
OpenAlexW3133846240

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