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ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2025

Boron symbiotaxis: a new concept in host-microbiome communication.

Andreea Silvia Pîrvu, Andrei Biţă, Ion Romulus Scorei, Dan Ionuţ Gheonea, George Dan Mogoşanu

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Review in Frontiers in microbiology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing 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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

5 authors.

Andreea Silvia PîrvuDepartment of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, Craiova, Romania.
Andrei BiţăDrug Research Center, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, Craiova, Romania.
Ion Romulus ScoreiDepartment of Biochemistry, BioBoron Research Institute, S.C. Natural Research S.R.L., Podari, Romania.
Dan Ionuţ GheoneaDepartment of Gastroenterology, Research Center of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, Craiova, Romania.
George Dan MogoşanuDrug Research Center, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, Craiova, Romania.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Boron (B) participates in biological systems through reversible complexation with diols and phosphate esters, enabling it to stabilize labile furanosyl intermediates and to modulate the chemical landscape in which QS signals operate. Dietary B appears to enter two functional pools: plasma-accessible boron (PAB), composed of freely diffusible B(OH)

Indexed as

autoinducer-2–borateboron symbiotaxishost–microbiome communicationmicrobiota-accessible boron complexesquorum sensing

Identifiers

PMID41568046
PMCPMC12816173

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