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ReviewMediators of inflammation2022

Galectin-3: A Novel Marker for the Prediction of Stroke Incidence and Clinical Prognosis.

Ahmed Sayed, Malak Munir, Mohamed Salah Nabet, Badrah S Alghamdi, Ghulam Md Ashraf, Eshak I Bahbah, Mohamed Elfil

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Review in Mediators of inflammation, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Impact of D-dimer on the outcomes of endovascular thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Interventional neuroradiology : journal of peritherapeutic neuroradiology, surgical procedures and related neurosciences · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Ahmed Sayed *Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
Malak Munir *Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
Mohamed Salah NabetDepartment of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Zagazig University, Sharkia, Egypt.
Badrah S AlghamdiDepartment of Physiology, Neuroscience Unit, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Ghulam Md AshrafPre-Clinical Research Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9820-2078
Eshak I BahbahFaculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Damietta, Egypt.
Mohamed ElfilDepartment of Neurological Sciences, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1125-2946
Ain Shams University · EGKing Abdulaziz University · SAAl-Azhar University · EGUniversity of Nebraska Medical Center · USZagazig University · EG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stroke, whether ischemic or haemorrhagic, is one of the main causes of mortality and disability all over the world, which entails huge burdens in both healthcare environments as well as social and economic aspects of life. Therefore, there is a continuous search for novel reliable biomarkers that can enhance the recognition of stroke events in a timely manner and predict the clinical outcomes following a stroke event. Galectins are a group of proteins expressed by many types of cells and tissues including vasculature, certain immune cells, fibroblasts, and gastrointestinal epithelial cells. These proteins vary in their structure and configuration according to their type and have a diversity of functions according to the type of tissue they are expressed in. Among these proteins, a few studies investigated mainly the roles played by galectin-1 (Gal-1) and galectin-3 (Gal-3) in the molecular mechanisms of atherosclerosis and in brain tissue remodeling after a stroke event. In this review, we present an updated overview of the current understanding of Gal-3's functions and implications in stroke occurrence and the response of the brain tissue to stroke events, which may be a key to its utility as a predictor of stroke incidence and clinical prognosis in the future.

Indexed as

Blood ProteinsGalectin 3GalectinsStrokeBiomarkersHumansIncidencePrognosisBiomarkersBlood ProteinsGalectin 3GalectinsLGALS3 protein, human

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PMID35281427
PMCPMC8904909
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