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ReviewInternational journal of fertility & sterility2021

Coding and Non-Coding RNAs, as Male Fertility and Infertility Biomarkers.

Fereshteh Aliakbari, Nahal Eshghifar, Reza Mirfakhraie, Parisa Pourghorban, Faezeh Azizi

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Review in International journal of fertility & sterility, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 22 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

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Fereshteh AliakbariMen's Health and Reproductive Health Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Nahal EshghifarMen's Health and Reproductive Health Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Reza MirfakhraieDepartment of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Parisa PourghorbanDepartment of Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Sabzevar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sabzevar, Iran.
Faezeh AziziNon-Communicable Disease Control Department, Public Health Department, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran. Email: faezeh.azizi@sbmu.ac.ir.
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences · IRIslamic Azad University Medical Branch of Tehran · IRIslamic Azad University of Sabzevar · IR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Semen analysis is usually the first step in the assessment of male fertility. Although analyzes provide valuable information about male fertility, success of cytoplasmic sperm injection using this method is not predictable. In the recent years, studies have shown that sperm quality assessment helps clinicians predict male fertility status based on the expression of biomarkers. To write this article, a comprehensive study was conducted on several RNA transcripts by searching related words on medical information databases by 2018. According to the literature, spermatogenesis based disorders in male infertility have a significant relationship with the expression level of some RNA molecules (like

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Male InfertilitySemenSpermatogenesis

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PMID34155862
PMCPMC8233923
OpenAlexW3163753901

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