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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2021

The Relationship between Mucins and Ulcerative Colitis: A Systematic Review.

Esther Bankole, Emily Read, Michael A Curtis, Joana F Neves, James A Garnett

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
31citing papers in PubMed
9.2field-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

31 citing papers in PubMed, 61 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

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Esther BankoleCentre for Host-Microbiome Interactions, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Science, King's College London, London SE1 9RT, UK.
Emily ReadCentre for Host-Microbiome Interactions, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Science, King's College London, London SE1 9RT, UK.
Michael A CurtisCentre for Host-Microbiome Interactions, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Science, King's College London, London SE1 9RT, UK.
Joana F NevesCentre for Host-Microbiome Interactions, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Science, King's College London, London SE1 9RT, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5842-4162
James A GarnettCentre for Host-Microbiome Interactions, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Science, King's College London, London SE1 9RT, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7621-8223
King's College London · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/J011118/1Medical Research Council MR/P012175/2Medical Research Council MR/R017662/1Medical Research Council MR/R024812/1UK Research and Innovation MR/R024812/1Wellcome Trust 215027/Z/18/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mucins are a family of glycosylated proteins which are the primary constituents of mucus and play a dynamic role in the regulation of the protective mucosal barriers throughout the human body. Ulcerative colitis (UC) is an Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) characterised by continuous inflammation of the inner layer of the large intestine, and in this systematic review we analyse currently available data to determine whether alterations exist in mucin activity in the colonic mucosa of UC patients. Database searches were conducted to identify studies published between 1990 and 2020 that assess the role of mucins in cohorts of UC patients, where biopsy specimens were resected for analysis and control groups were included for comparison. 5497 articles were initially identified and of these 14 studies were systematically selected for analysis, a further 2 articles were identified through citation chaining. Therefore, 16 studies were critically reviewed. 13 of these studies assessed the role of MUC2 in UC and the majority of articles indicated that alterations in MUC2 structure or synthesis had an impact on the colonic mucosa, although conflicting results were presented regarding MUC2 expression. This review highlights the importance of further research to enhance our understanding of mucin regulation in UC and summarises data that may inform future studies.

Indexed as

Inflammatory Bowel DiseaseintestineMUCmucinmucosaulcerative colitis

Identifiers

PMID33946184
PMCPMC8125602
OpenAlexW3158936192

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