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
| 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 |