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ReviewFrontiers in pharmacology2024

Anticancer activities of natural abietic acid.

Bashir Ahmad, Chuan Tian, Ji-Xin Tang, John Sieh Dumbuya, Wen Li, Jun Lu

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Review in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
5.1field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 22 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 1 institution in 1 country.

Bashir Ahmad *Department of Pediatrics, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, China.
Chuan Tian *Department of Pediatrics, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, China.
Ji-Xin TangGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Autophagy and Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases, Institute of Nephrology, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China.
John Sieh DumbuyaDepartment of Pediatrics, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, China.
Wen LiDepartment of Pediatrics, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, China.
Jun LuDepartment of Pediatrics, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, China.
Guangdong Medical College · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer is the main cause of death in the world. There are several therapies that are in practice for cancer cure including radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and surgery. Among the chemotherapies, natural products are considered comparable safe, easily available and cost effective. Approximately 60% of cancer approved FDA drugs are natural products including vinblastine, doxorubicin, and paclitaxel. These natural products have complex structures due to which they work against cancer through different molecular pathways, STAT3, NF-kB, PI3K/AKT/mTOR, cell cycle arrest, mitochondrial dependent pathway, extrinsic apoptosis pathway, autophagy, mitophagy and ferroptosis. AA is a natural abietane diterpenoid compound from

Indexed as

Abietic acidcancernatural productPimenta racemose var. grisseaPinus palustris

Identifiers

PMID38633616
PMCPMC11021724
OpenAlexW4393866933

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