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ReviewFrontiers in pharmacology2021

Arginine Therapy for Lung Diseases.

Jeremy A Scott, Harm Maarsingh, Fernando Holguin, Hartmut Grasemann

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Review in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
29citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.4field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 65 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  5. Arginine at the host-pathogen interface.Infection and immunity · 2025
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  10. L-Citrulline in Neonates: From Bench to Bed Side.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  12. Clinical and inflammatory features of traffic-related diesel exposure in children with asthma.Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology · 2024
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  14. Effect of L-arginine on cystic fibrosisAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2024
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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 at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Jeremy A ScottOccupational and Environmental Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Harm MaarsinghDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Lloyd L. Gregory School of Pharmacy, Palm Beach Atlantic University, West Palm Beach, FL, United States.
Fernando HolguinDivision of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, United States.
Hartmut GrasemannDivision of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Paediatrics and Translational Medicine, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Hospital for Sick Children · CAPalm Beach Atlantic University · USPublic Health Ontario · CAUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nitric oxide (NO) is produced by a family of isoenzymes, nitric oxide synthases (NOSs), which all utilize L-arginine as substrate. The production of NO in the lung and airways can play a number of roles during lung development, regulates airway and vascular smooth muscle tone, and is involved in inflammatory processes and host defense. Altered L-arginine/NO homeostasis, due to the accumulation of endogenous NOS inhibitors and competition for substrate with the arginase enzymes, has been found to play a role in various conditions affecting the lung and in pulmonary diseases, such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cystic fibrosis (CF), pulmonary hypertension, and bronchopulmonary dysplasia. Different therapeutic strategies to increase L-arginine levels or bioavailability are currently being explored in pre-clinical and clinical studies. These include supplementation of L-arginine or L-citrulline and inhibition of arginase.

Indexed as

airway hyperresponsivenessasthmaasymmetric dimethyl argininechronic obstructive pulmonary deseasecystic fibrosisPulmonary hypertensionremodeling

Identifiers

PMID33833679
PMCPMC8022134
OpenAlexW3136352586

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