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Table 2 Information content type categorization and relationship concept candidates for a sample of table/figure legends Extracted from – Zhu Z, Haegele AD, Thompson HJ: Effect of caloric restriction on pre-malignant and malignant stages of mammary carcinogenesis. Carcinogenesis 1997, 18(5):1007–12

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Table/Figure Legend

Type

Extracted Concept Relationships

Concept Relationships (after Normalization using UMLS tools)

Table I. Sequence of events that comprised the experimental design

FACT

None

none

Table II. Composition of diets

FACT

None

none

Fig 1. Effect of caloric restriction on dietary intake, body weight gain and the ratio of cumulative body weight/cumulative diet intake.

FINDING

• dietary intake – caloric restriction

• body weight – caloric restriction

• energy intake – caloric restriction

• body weight – caloric restriction

Table III. Effect of calorie restriction on the proportion of intraductal proliferations, ductal carcinoma in situ and carcinomas in mammary glands

FINDING

• intraductal proliferations – caloric restriction

• ductal carcinoma in situ – caloric restriction

• mammary gland carcinomas – caloric restriction

• intraduct carcinoma of breast – caloric restriction

• mammary neoplasms – caloric restriction

Fig 2. Effect of calorie restriction on cumulative and final incidences of mammary carcinomas.

FINDING

• mammary carcinomas – caloric restriction

• mammary neoplasms – caloric restriction

Fig 3. Percentage distribution of lesions in a dietary group that were: intraductal proliferations, ductal carcinoma in situ and adenocarcinoma.

FINDING

• lesions – dietary group

• dietary group – intraductal proliferations

• dietary group – ductal carcinoma in situ

• dietary group – adenocarcinoma

• lesions – energy intake

• intraduct carcinoma of breast – energy intake

• adenocarcinoma – energy intake

Fig 4. Effect of caloric restriction on urinary excretion of immunoreactive cortical steroid.

FINDING

• immunoreactive cortical steroid – caloric restriction

• adrenal cortex hormones – caloric restriction