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ReviewFrontiers in allergy2023

Sputum induction and its diagnostic applications in inflammatory airway disorders: a review.

Beatriz Goncalves, Ukpai A Eze

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Review in Frontiers in allergy, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. NLRP3 inflammasome expression in pediatric asthma: sputum-based insights, inflammatory mechanisms, and targeted therapeutic strategies.Allergy, asthma, and clinical immunology : official journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2025
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  8. Induced sputum: current progress and prospect.European journal of medical research · 2025
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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Beatriz GoncalvesNIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Department of Respiratory Sciences, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom.
Ukpai A EzeLeicester School of Allied Health Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom.
De Montfort University · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sputum induction is a technique that covers the induction and the subsequent processing of the expectorate primarily for the analysis of cells and different inflammatory biomarkers present in the airways to further understand the pathophysiology of different inflammatory respiratory disorders such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as well as the diagnosis of lung diseases such as lung cancer, tuberculosis, and

Indexed as

airway inflammatory disordersasthmachronic obstructive pulmonary diseasedithiothreitol sputum processinginduced sputum cytospinsspirometrysputum eosinophil differential cell countsputum induction

Identifiers

PMID37901763
PMCPMC10600502
OpenAlexW4387572841

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Registered trials

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