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ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2021

A Review of Red Yeast Rice, a Traditional Fermented Food in Japan and East Asia: Its Characteristic Ingredients and Application in the Maintenance and Improvement of Health in Lipid Metabolism and the Circulatory System.

Hiroyuki Fukami, Yuki Higa, Tomohiro Hisano, Koichi Asano, Tetsuya Hirata, Sansei Nishibe

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Review in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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35citing papers in PubMed
6.2field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 70 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hiroyuki FukamiCentral R&D Laboratory, KOBYASHI Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Ibaraki 567-0057, Japan.
Yuki HigaCentral R&D Laboratory, KOBYASHI Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Ibaraki 567-0057, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-8436-9355
Tomohiro HisanoCentral R&D Laboratory, KOBYASHI Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Ibaraki 567-0057, Japan.
Koichi AsanoCentral R&D Laboratory, KOBYASHI Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Ibaraki 567-0057, Japan.
Tetsuya HirataCentral R&D Laboratory, KOBYASHI Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Ibaraki 567-0057, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-4560-0387
Sansei NishibeFaculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Ishikari 061-0293, Japan.
Health Sciences University of Hokkaido · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Red yeast rice has been used to produce alcoholic beverages and various fermented foods in China and Korea since ancient times; it has also been used to produce

Indexed as

AnimalsBiological ProductsCardiovascular SystemFermented FoodsHumansJapanLipid MetabolismBiological Productsred yeast ricecardiovascular systemLDL-cholesterollipid metabolismmonacolinMonascus fungipigmentpolyketidered yeast ricesolid-state fermentationstatin

Identifiers

PMID33803982
PMCPMC8001704
OpenAlexW3136007175

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