Evidence mapPaperPMID 25859300Full record

ReviewIranian journal of basic medical sciences2014

Cardio-protective and anti-cancer therapeutic potential of Nigella sativa.

Hammad Shafiq, Asif Ahmad, Tariq Masud, Muhammad Kaleem

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In one paragraph

Review in Iranian journal of basic medical sciences, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03175757 (A Randomized, Single-blind, Placebo-controlled Study to Evaluate the Effects of a Turmeric and Black Cumin Seed Formulation on Cholesterol Levels Among Generally Healthy Participants), which is not on this map. Cited by 23 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
23citing papers in PubMed
11.4field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

NCT03175757 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2017, after this paper: background citation

A Randomized, Single-blind, Placebo-controlled Study to Evaluate the Effects of a Turmeric and Black Cumin Seed Formulation on Cholesterol Levels Among Generally Healthy Participants

TypeinterventionalSponsorSupplement Formulators, Inc.Ran2017 to 2018Enrolled33ConditionsCholesterol HealthArmsTurmeric and Black Cumin Seed, Placebo
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 86 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Trial
  2. Trial
  3. Investigating the cardioprotective effects ofBiochemistry and biophysics reports · 2025
    Article
  4. Review
  5. Diversity of Ethiopian Black Cumin (Biochemistry research international · 2025
    Article
  6. Review
  7. Article
  8. Potential Pharmacological Applications ofPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
    Review
  9. Review
  10. Magnetite-Based Nanostructured Coatings Functionalized withAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
    Article
  11. The Potential Role ofMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
    Article
  12. Article
  13. Review
  14. Review
  15. Iranian journal of basic medical sciences · 2020
    Review
  16. Gender effect on the pharmacokinetics of thymoquinone: Preclinical investigation andSaudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society · 2020
    Article
  17. Nigella Sativa Oil Protects the Rat Ovary from Oxidative Injury Due to Ischemia-Reperfusion.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2017
    Article
  18. Review
  19. The effect ofResearch in pharmaceutical sciences · 2017
    Article
  20. Review
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 at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hammad ShafiqDepartment of Food Technology, PMAS Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, 43600 Pakistan.
Asif AhmadDepartment of Food Technology, PMAS Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, 43600 Pakistan ; Department of Food Technology, PMAS Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, 43600 Pakistan.
Tariq MasudDepartment of Food Technology, PMAS Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, 43600 Pakistan.
Muhammad KaleemDepartment of Food Technology, PMAS Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, 43600 Pakistan.
Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University · PK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nigella sativa is the miraculous plant having a lot of nutritional and medicinal benefits, and attracts large number of nutrition and pharmacological researchers. N. sativa seed composition shows that it is the blessing of nature and it contains and many bioactive compounds like thymoquinone, α-hederin, alkaloids, flavonoids, antioxidants, fatty acids many other compounds that have positive effects on curing of different diseases. Several medicinal properties of N. sativa like its anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory, anti-diabetic, antioxidant activities and many others are well acknowledged. However, this article focuses on activity of N. sativa against cardiovascular diseases and cancer. For gathering required data the authors went through vast number of articles using search engines like Science direct, ELSEVIER, Pub Med, Willey on Line Library and Google scholar and the findings were classified on the basis of relevance of the topic and were reviewed in the article. N. sativa is rich source of different biologically active compounds and is found effective in controlling number of cardiovascular diseases and various cancers both in vivo and in vitro studies.

Indexed as

Anti-diabeticCancerCardiovascularNigella sativa

Identifiers

PMID25859300
PMCPMC4387232
OpenAlexW1608062055

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