ArticleAnnals of medicine and surgery (2012)2025
The effect of tart cherry juice (TCJ) supplementation on exercise-induced muscle damage (EIMD) in an athletic population.
Article in Annals of medicine and surgery (2012), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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.
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.
Who cites it
6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Review
- The effect of beetroot juice (BRJ) supplementation on exercise-induced muscle damage (EIMD): a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2026Article
- Tart cherry supplementation for exercise recovery: an evidence-informed narrative review and applied monitoring framework.Physical activity and nutrition · 2026Article
- Physiological and Recovery Responses to Dietary Polyphenols in the Context of Exercise: Relevance for Muscle Aging and Sarcopenia.Nutrients · 2026Review
- Advances in polyphenol-based strategies for musculoskeletal recovery and exercise rehabilitation in cancer: Mechanistic insights into Wnt/β-catenin and PI3K/Akt signaling pathways and inflammatory markers.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Review
- Enhanced Antibacterial, Anti-Biofilm, and Anticancer Activities of Liposome-Encapsulated Selenium Nanoparticles: A Novel Therapeutic Approach.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Introduction: This systematic review and meta-analysis quantified the effect of tart cherry juice (TCJ) supplementation on exercise-induced muscle damage (EIMD). Evidence supported TCJ's beneficial effects on muscular function and inflammatory biomarkers interleukin (IL)-6 and IL-8. Method: PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science were searched up to January 2024. Risk of bias was assessed using RevMan® software. Mean differences and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of maximal voluntary isometric contraction (MVIC), inflammatory markers, creatine kinase (CK), and visual analog scale (VAS) score were pooled using fixed- or random-effect models. Heterogeneity was assessed using Chi-square or Results: Ten trials were included in the analysis. TCJ supplementation significantly improved MVIC [weighted mean difference (WMD) = 9.13%, 95% CI (6.42-11.84), Conclusion: TCJ supplementation may improve muscle function and some inflammatory biomarkers in EIMD. Further high-quality studies with larger sample sizes are needed to determine TCJ's long-term effects.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
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.