Retraction: Shah, A.M., et al. Glutamine Metabolism and Its Role in Immunity, a Comprehensive Review.

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.

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.

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Meta-analysis of Glutamine on Immune Function and Post-Operative Complications of Patients With Colorectal Cancer.Frontiers in nutrition · 2021
   Pooled it
2. Integrative multi-omics analysis uncovers tumor-immune-gut axis influencing immunotherapy outcomes in ovarian cancer.Nature communications · 2024
   Trial
3. Shared and unique metabolic features of the malignant and benign thyroid lesions determined with use ofScientific reports · 2021
   Trial
4. Immune-metabolic crosstalk in HNSCC: mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities.Frontiers in oncology · 2025
   Review
5. Summer Buffalo Milk Produced in China: A Desirable Diet Enriched in Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Amino Acids.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
   Article
6. Effects of L-glutamine supplementation on degradation rate and rumen fermentation characteristics in vitro.Animal bioscience · 2022
   Article
7. Glutamine mitigates murine burn sepsis by supporting macrophage M2 polarization through repressing the SIRT5-mediated desuccinylation of pyruvate dehydrogenase.Burns & trauma · 2022
   Article
8. The Role of Oat Nutrients in the Immune System: A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2021
   Review
9. Retraction: Shah, A.M., et al. Glutamine Metabolism and Its Role in Immunity, a Comprehensive Review.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021
   Article
10. Elderly Subjects Supplemented with L-Glutamine Shows an Improvement of Mucosal Immunity in the Upper Airways in Response to Influenza Virus Vaccination.Vaccines · 2021
    Article
11. Immuno-Metabolism: The Role of Cancer Niche in Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Resistance.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
    Review
12. Metabolism and Immune Modulation in Patients with Solid Tumors: Systematic Review of Preclinical and Clinical Evidence.Cancers · 2020
    Review

Corrections and comments

• Retraction of
  Glutamine Metabolism and Its Role in Immunity, a Comprehensive Review.2020

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

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