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Safety of higher dosages of Viscum album L. in animals and humans - systematic review of immune changes and safety parameters

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, August 2011
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Title
Safety of higher dosages of Viscum album L. in animals and humans - systematic review of immune changes and safety parameters
Published in
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, August 2011
DOI 10.1186/1472-6882-11-72
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Authors

Gunver S Kienle, Renate Grugel, Helmut Kiene

Abstract

Viscum album L extracts (VAE, mistletoe) and isolated mistletoe lectins (ML) have immunostimulating properties and a strong dose-dependent cytotoxic activity. They are frequently used in complementary cancer treatment, mainly to improve quality of life, but partly also to influence tumour growth, especially by injecting VAE locally and in high dosage. The question is raised whether these higher dosages can induce any harm or immunosuppressive effects.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Canada 2 2%
Brunei Darussalam 2 2%
Germany 1 1%
India 1 1%
Australia 1 1%
Unknown 85 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 17 18%
Researcher 11 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 10%
Student > Postgraduate 8 9%
Other 20 22%
Unknown 16 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 29 32%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 16 17%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 8%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 6 7%
Chemistry 3 3%
Other 10 11%
Unknown 21 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 December 2020.
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#5,843,730
of 22,651,245 outputs
Outputs from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
#944
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Outputs of similar age
#33,445
of 124,081 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
#16
of 37 outputs
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