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ArticleFrontiers in aging neuroscience2021

Acupuncture Can Regulate the Distribution of Lymphocyte Subsets and the Levels of Inflammatory Cytokines in Patients With Mild to Moderate Vascular Dementia.

Hui Zhi, Yao Wang, Shichen Chang, Pan Pan, Zhenzhen Ling, Zhen Zhang, Zhinan Ma, Runmin Wang, Xuezhu Zhang

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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 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 26% 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, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Acupuncture for postoperative rehabilitation in degenerative lumbar spinal diseases: mechanisms and clinical evidence.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Hui ZhiFirst Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
Yao WangFirst Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
Shichen ChangFirst Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
Pan PanFirst Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
Zhenzhen LingFirst Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
Zhen ZhangFirst Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
Zhinan MaFirst Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
Runmin WangFirst Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
Xuezhu ZhangFirst Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CNOsaka University · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

ELISAFCMperipheral immune function“sanjiao” acupuncture methodvascular dementia

Identifiers

PMID34912208
PMCPMC8666891
OpenAlexW3214944050

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