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ReviewFrontiers in medicine2024

Inflammation mechanism and anti-inflammatory therapy of dry eye.

Liyuan Chu, Caiming Wang, Hongyan Zhou

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Review in Frontiers in medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
35citing papers in PubMed
21.7field-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

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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

35 citing papers in PubMed, 40 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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Liyuan ChuDepartment of Ophthalmology, China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China.
Caiming WangDepartment of Ophthalmology, China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China.
Hongyan ZhouDepartment of Ophthalmology, China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China.
Jilin University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dry eye is a widespread chronic inflammatory disease that causes fatigue, tingling, burning, and other symptoms. Dry eye is attributed to rheumatic diseases, diabetes, hormone disorders, and contact lenses, which activate inflammatory pathways: mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK) and nuclear factor-B (NF-κB), promote macrophage inflammatory cell and T cell activation, and inflammation factors. Clinicians use a combination of anti-inflammatory drugs to manage different symptoms of dry eye; some of these anti-inflammatory drugs are being developed. This review introduces the dry eye inflammation mechanisms and the involved inflammatory factors. We also elucidate the anti-inflammatory drug mechanism and the detection limits.

Indexed as

dry eyeinflammationmechanismreviewtherapy

Identifiers

PMID38420354
PMCPMC10899709
OpenAlexW4391818379

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