Evidence map›Paper›PMID 39720388›Full record

ArticleCureus2024

Synergistic Effects of Anti-echinococcosis Drug Candidates Combined With Atovaquone in Culture Assays and Mice With Primary Infections of Echinococcus multilocularis.

Hirokazu Kouguchi, Masahito Hidaka, Hiroyuki Matsuyama, Naoki Hayashi, Tomohito Koyano, Ryo Nakao, Nariaki Nonaka, Kinpei Yagi, Shigehiro Enkai

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Cureus, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

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

9 authors.

Hirokazu KouguchiDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Hokkaido Institute of Public Health, Sapporo, JPN.
Masahito HidakaDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Hokkaido Institute of Public Health, Sapporo, JPN.
Hiroyuki MatsuyamaDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Hokkaido Institute of Public Health, Sapporo, JPN.
Naoki HayashiDepartment of Disease Control, Laboratory of Parasitology, Graduate School of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, JPN.
Tomohito KoyanoDepartment of Disease Control, Laboratory of Parasitology, Graduate School of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, JPN.
Ryo NakaoDepartment of Disease Control, Laboratory of Parasitology, Graduate School of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, JPN.
Nariaki NonakaDepartment of Disease Control, Laboratory of Parasitology, Graduate School of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, JPN.
Kinpei YagiDepartment of Disease Control, Laboratory of Parasitology, Graduate School of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, JPN.
Shigehiro EnkaiDepartment of Pediatrics, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, JPN.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a fatal zoonotic disease distributed mainly in the Northern Hemisphere. At present, its curative treatment relies on surgery, and the development of effective drugs is needed. We previously demonstrated the anti-echinococcal effect of atovaquone (ATV) as a mitochondrial complex III inhibitor in both in vitro and in vivo experiments. However, the anti-echinococcal effect of ATV in vivo was limited, since ATV inhibits only aerobic respiration. In this study, we investigated whether ATV exhibits a synergistic effect when used in combination with other anti-echinococcal drug candidates, including mefloquine (MF), 3-bromopyruvic acid (3BP), crocin, and verapamil (Ver), thereby enhancing their antiparasitic effectiveness. Methods The synergistic effect of anti-echinococcal drug candidates with ATV was examined in culture experiments with

Indexed as

3-bromopyruvic acidatovaquoneechinococcosisechinococcus multilocularisverapamil

Identifiers

PMID39720388
PMCPMC11668265

What Socratic holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.