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ArticleFrontiers in pharmacology2021

New Insights Into the Anticonvulsant Effects of Essential Oil From

Ben A Chindo, Melanie-Jayne R Howes, Sawsan Abuhamdah, Musa I Yakubu, Godwin I Ayuba, Alex Battison, Paul L Chazot

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Article in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Essential Oils: Chemistry and Mechanisms of Anticonvulsant Action.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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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

7 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Ben A ChindoDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kaduna State University, Kaduna, Nigeria.
Melanie-Jayne R HowesRoyal Botanic Gardens Kew, Richmond, United Kingdom.
Sawsan AbuhamdahDepartment of Biosciences, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom.
Musa I YakubuDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kaduna State University, Kaduna, Nigeria.
Godwin I AyubaDepartment of Anatomic Pathology and Forensic Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaduna State University, Kaduna, Nigeria.
Alex BattisonRoyal Botanic Gardens Kew, Richmond, United Kingdom.
Paul L ChazotDepartment of Biosciences, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom.
Kaduna State University · NGRoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew · GBAl Ain University · AEDurham University · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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4-AP brain slice model of epilepsyepilepsyessential oilkindlingMelissa officinalissustained repetitive firingvoltage-gated sodium channels

Identifiers

PMID34721045
PMCPMC8551917
OpenAlexW3205896016

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