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ArticleAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2021

A Novel Use of Allopurinol as A Quorum-Sensing Inhibitor in

Ahmed Al Saqr, Mohammed F Aldawsari, El-Sayed Khafagy, Moataz A Shaldam, Wael A H Hegazy, Hisham A Abbas

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Article in Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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37citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

37 citing papers in PubMed, 56 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

6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Ahmed Al SaqrDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-kharj 11942, Saudi Arabia.
Mohammed F AldawsariDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-kharj 11942, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-1298-4863
El-Sayed KhafagyDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-kharj 11942, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-3741-0893
Moataz A ShaldamDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafr El-Sheikh 33511, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0002-0420-4364
Wael A H HegazyDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Zagazig University, Zagazig 44519, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0001-5683-4803
Hisham A AbbasDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Zagazig University, Zagazig 44519, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0002-2429-327X
Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University · SAZagazig University · EGKafrelsheikh University · EGSuez Canal University · EG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

allopurinolPseudomonas aeruginosaquorum sensingvirulence inhibition

Identifiers

PMID34827323
PMCPMC8615079
OpenAlexW3214241128

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