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ArticleFrontiers in aging neuroscience2021

Niacin Enhancement for Parkinson's Disease: An Effectiveness Trial.

Raymond Chong, Chandramohan Wakade, Marissa Seamon, Banabihari Giri, John Morgan, Sharad Purohit

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Article in Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

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

17 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. Lactate: A Theranostic Biomarker for Metabolic Psychiatry?Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  10. The Promise of Niacin in Neurology.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2023
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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

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Raymond ChongDepartment of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States.
Chandramohan WakadeCharlie Norwood Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Augusta, GA, United States.
Marissa SeamonCharlie Norwood Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Augusta, GA, United States.
Banabihari GiriCharlie Norwood Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Augusta, GA, United States.
John MorganCharlie Norwood Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Augusta, GA, United States.
Sharad PurohitCharlie Norwood Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Augusta, GA, United States.
Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center · USAugusta University · USAugusta University Health · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We previously reported that individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD) present with lower vitamin B3 levels compared to controls. It may be related to carbidopa interaction, defective tryptophan metabolism, and stresses of night sleep disorder. Vitamin B3 is the energy source for all cells by producing NAD

Indexed as

antiinflammationB3fatigueGPR109Ainflammationnicotinic acidUPDRS

Identifiers

PMID34220485
PMCPMC8245760
OpenAlexW3174761523

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