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ArticleMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)2021

Transcriptomics of Long-Term Meditation Practice: Evidence for Prevention or Reversal of Stress Effects Harmful to Health.

Supaya Wenuganen, Kenneth G Walton, Shilpa Katta, Clifton L Dalgard, Gauthaman Sukumar, Joshua Starr, Frederick T Travis, Robert Keith Wallace, Paul Morehead, Nancy K Lonsdorf and 2 more

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Article in Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 27% 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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Contemplative Practices as a Form of Stress Management for Patients with Kidney Disease.Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN · 2025
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  7. Large-scale genomic study reveals robust activation of the immune system following advanced Inner Engineering meditation retreat.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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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

12 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Supaya WenuganenDepartment of Physiology and Health, Maharishi International University, Fairfield, IA 52556, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4098-7957
Kenneth G WaltonDepartment of Physiology and Health, Maharishi International University, Fairfield, IA 52556, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0463-7992
Shilpa KattaCancer Genomics Research Laboratory (CGR), Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD 20877, USA.
Clifton L DalgardDepartment of Anatomy, Physiology, and Genetics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.
Gauthaman SukumarDepartment of Anatomy, Physiology, and Genetics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.
Joshua StarrDepartment of Anatomy, Physiology, and Genetics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.
Frederick T TravisCenter for Brain, Cognition, and Consciousness, Maharishi International University, Fairfield, IA 52557, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1720-3184
Robert Keith WallaceDepartment of Physiology and Health, Maharishi International University, Fairfield, IA 52556, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1895-8797
Paul MoreheadDepartment of Physiology and Health, Maharishi International University, Fairfield, IA 52556, USA.
Nancy K LonsdorfDepartment of Physiology and Health, Maharishi International University, Fairfield, IA 52556, USA.
Meera SrivastavaDepartment of Anatomy, Physiology, and Genetics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.
John FaganDepartment of Physiology and Health, Maharishi International University, Fairfield, IA 52556, USA.
Maharishi International University · USUniformed Services University of the Health Sciences · USLeidos (United States) · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

MeditationComputational BiologyLeukocytes, MononuclearStress, PsychologicalTranscriptomeallostatic loadbiological agingchronic stressenergy metabolismepigenetic effectsgene expressiontranscendental meditation

Identifiers

PMID33804348
PMCPMC8001870
OpenAlexW3134303916

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Registered trials

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