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ReviewOxidative medicine and cellular longevity2018

Non-Provitamin A and Provitamin A Carotenoids as Immunomodulators: Recommended Dietary Allowance, Therapeutic Index, or Personalized Nutrition?

Elisabetta Toti, C-Y Oliver Chen, Maura Palmery, Débora Villaño Valencia, Ilaria Peluso

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Review in Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
61citing papers in PubMed
7.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

61 citing papers in PubMed, 164 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

5 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Elisabetta TotiResearch Centre for Food and Nutrition, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA-AN), Rome, Italy.
C-Y Oliver ChenAntioxidants Research Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6273-9017
Maura PalmeryDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, "V. Erspamer", La Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0878-807X
Débora Villaño ValenciaUniversidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia (UCAM), Murcia, Spain.
Ilaria PelusoResearch Centre for Food and Nutrition, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA-AN), Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6210-5241
Cereal Research Centre · ITSapienza University of Rome · ITTufts University · USUniversidad Católica de Murcia · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vegetables and fruits contain non-provitamin A (lycopene, lutein, and zeaxanthin) and provitamin A (

Indexed as

DietBiological AvailabilityCarotenoidsHumansImmune SystemProvitaminsRecommended Dietary AllowancesTherapeutic IndexXanthophyllsCarotenoidsProvitaminsXanthophylls

Identifiers

PMID29861829
PMCPMC5971251
OpenAlexW2799738535

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