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ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Evaluation of the Antimicrobial Effect of Thymoquinone against Different Dental Pathogens: An In Vitro Study.

Khalifa S Al-Khalifa, Rasha AlSheikh, Moahmmed T Al-Hariri, Hosam El-Sayyad, Maher S Alqurashi, Saqib Ali, Amr S Bugshan

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Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 17 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

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Khalifa S Al-KhalifaDepartment of Preventive Dental Sciences, College of Dentistry, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-8160-9288
Rasha AlSheikhDepartment of Restorative Dental Sciences, College of Dentistry, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-2910-5511
Moahmmed T Al-HaririDepartment of Physiology, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia.
Hosam El-SayyadMiddle Eastern Regional Radioisotope Centre for the Arab Countries, Giza 12311, Egypt.
Maher S AlqurashiDepartment of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-0980-3390
Saqib AliDepartment of Biomedical Dental Sciences, College of Dentistry, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-2421-0753
Amr S BugshanDepartment of Biomedical Dental Sciences, College of Dentistry, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-7920-4556
Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University · SA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study aimed to evaluate the antimicrobial effect of Thymoquinone (TQ) on four different oral microorganisms. Minimum Bactericidal Concentration (MBC), Minimum Inhibition Concentration (MIC), Broth microdilution, and Well diffusion tests were used to determine the optimum antimicrobial concentrations of TQ against

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Anti-Bacterial AgentsBenzoquinonesMicrobial Sensitivity TestsStaphylococcus aureusStreptococcus mutansStreptococcus oralisStreptococcus salivariusAnti-Bacterial AgentsBenzoquinonesthymoquinoneantibacterial agentsblack seedsdental cariesherbsthymoquinone

Identifiers

PMID34770860
PMCPMC8588385
OpenAlexW3210996904

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