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ArticleAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Enhanced Anti-Bacterial Activity of Arachidonic Acid against the Cariogenic Bacterium

Avraham Melkam, Ronit Vogt Sionov, Miriam Shalish, Doron Steinberg

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Article in Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
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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

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Susceptibility of the Oral Commensal BacteriumInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  4. Synergistic inhibition ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2026
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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

4 authors.

Avraham MelkamFaculty of Dental Medicine, Ein Kerem Campus, Institute of Biomedical and Oral Research (IBOR), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9112102, Israel.
Ronit Vogt SionovFaculty of Dental Medicine, Ein Kerem Campus, Institute of Biomedical and Oral Research (IBOR), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9112102, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-2978-5943
Miriam ShalishHadassah Medical Center, Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of Dental Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9112102, Israel.
Doron SteinbergFaculty of Dental Medicine, Ein Kerem Campus, Institute of Biomedical and Oral Research (IBOR), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9112102, Israel.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dental caries is a global health problem that requires better prevention measures. One of the goals is to reduce the prevalence of the cariogenic Gram-positive bacterium

Indexed as

anti-bacterialanti-biofilmarachidonic acidcetylpyridinium chloridechlorhexidinefluorideStreptococcus mutanstriclosan

Identifiers

PMID38927206
PMCPMC11200779

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