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ArticleNutrients2022

Effects of Taro (Colocasia esculenta) Water-Soluble Non-Starch Polysaccharide, Lactobacillus acidophilus, Bifidobacterium breve, Bifidobacterium infantis, and Their Synbiotic Mixtures on Pro-Inflammatory Cytokine Interleukin-8 Production

Mylene Anwar, Sonya Mros, Michelle McConnell, Alaa El-Din A Bekhit

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Article in Nutrients, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 28% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 9 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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Mylene AnwarDepartment of Food Science, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand.
Sonya MrosDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0002-2622-9538
Michelle McConnellDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand.
Alaa El-Din A BekhitDepartment of Food Science, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0003-2569-8620
University of Otago · NZCentral Mindanao University · PH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the past decades, the regulation of pro-inflammatory cytokine production, including interleukin-8 (IL-8), has been the goal of many targeted therapeutic interventions for Necrotising enterocolitis (NEC), a gastrointestinal disease commonly associated with a very low birth weight in preterm infants. In this study, the ability to regulate the production of IL-8 of the water-soluble non-starch polysaccharide (WS-NSP) from taro corm (Tc-WS-NSP) extracted using a conventional (CE) or improved conventional (ICE) extraction method, of the probiotics

Indexed as

Bifidobacterium breveColocasiaEnterocolitis, NecrotizingProbioticsSynbioticsBifidobacteriumBifidobacterium longum subspecies infantisCytokinesHumansInfantInfant, NewbornInfant, PrematureInterleukin-8Lactobacillus acidophilusPolysaccharidesWaterCytokinesInterleukin-8PolysaccharidesWaterinterleukin 8necrotising enterocolitisprobioticssynbiotictaro (Colocasia esculenta)water-soluble non-starch polysaccharide

Identifiers

PMID35631269
PMCPMC9147535
OpenAlexW4280502672

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