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Photoprotective and Heavy Metal-Detoxifying Melanin Fractions Isolated from

Xiangxin Li, Huan Yang, Yiming Wang, Chuanyong Li, Yanli Huo, Jianzhao Qi, Li He

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Article in Biology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing 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

1 citing paper 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

7 authors.

Xiangxin LiCollege of Biology and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou 730070, China.
Huan YangCollege of Biology and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou 730070, China.ORCID 0009-0006-1980-2478
Yiming WangCollege of Biology and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou 730070, China.
Chuanyong LiCollege of Biology and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou 730070, China.
Yanli HuoCollege of Biology and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou 730070, China.
Jianzhao QiCenter of Edible Fungi, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Xianyang 712100, China.ORCID 0000-0003-1418-873X
Li HeCollege of Biology and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou 730070, China.

Funding

Lanzhou Science and Technology Bureau Grant No. 2025-5-009
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Melanin is a natural biopolymer with broad biological activities, yet research on melanin from the medicinal fungus

Indexed as

antioxidant activityheavy metal relief abilitymelaninOphiocordyceps sinensisphotoprotective activity

Identifiers

PMID42510729
PMCPMC13404823

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